World Chinema

• Canada
• 2001
• 97min

Lola spends her days at the therapist, wandering through the streets, dabbling in fashion design or obliviously running errands for her husband Mike. Their relationship is at a standstill: A distance has grown between them and the...

World Chinema

• Finland
• 2001
• 106min

In a small paper mill town during an hour on an autumnal Saturday morning when the sound barrier is broken by an army fighter plane, Milja shares her husband′s last moments by his bedside. In the pizzeria Leena stirs up a romance ...

World Chinema

• Italy
• 2001
• 93min

It is dawn on morning of 25 April 1974 when Marco, a young Italian man of roughly 25 years of age, and his Portuguese friend Victor leave Paris in a yellow Citroen 2CV automobile. Their curiosity to get to know different places an...

World Chinema

• UK
• 2001
• 90min

In the 1930s, Britain was between wars and on the verge of depression. Family homes were rented, pubs were smoke-filled dens and streetlights were minimal. For seven year old, Liam, growing up against the bleak and gritty backdrop...

World Chinema

• France
• 2001
• 86min

A young man′s interest in film history leads to a revelation about his own past in this drama. Sam is a student and film fan who is fascinated by Sylvain Marceau, an actor who had a brief career in the 1930s but seems to have vani...

World Chinema

• France,Germany,Algeria
• 2001
• 93min

After many years as a tourist guide in the Slave museum in Senegal, Alloune, 65, a widower living alone, decides to go to America in search of his ancestors, taken away from his village two hundred years ago and sold as slaves in ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2001
• 146min

Shunji Iwai is famous for bringing out forgotten memories from his viewers. He is also famous for doing this with brilliant visual effects. This time his focus is on the ′14-year-old,′ a new social phenomenon in Japan. A sophomo...

Open Cinema

• France
• 2001
• 90min

Yann studies literature at a French provincial university. One day, he falls under the spell of the name of an author: Marguerite Duras. He avidly reads everything he can lay his hands on. For five years he writes her several lett...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia
• 2001
• 115min

Marsinah focuses on the events following the death of a woman laborer named Marsinah. In 1993, three days after her mysterious disappearance, her tortured body is found on a farm. She has been sadistically raped and murdered. Du...

New Currents

• India
• 2001
• 101min

A quiet yet enraged social commentary by Digvijay Singh. In India, some monks still perform ritualistic rape on girls who have just started their period. All in the name and for the grace of god. Maya began with newspaper reports ...