World Chinema

• Australia
• 2001
• 88min

Mullet is about a sweet fish that no one wants to eat. Life in a small Australian fishing town is disrupted when its former football hero and local larrikin Eddie Maloney (Mullet) returns to face everything that he walked out on t...

Open Cinema

• United States
• 2001
• 146min

Once again, David Lynch′s creative energies create a strange, dreamlike world that begins as a normal Hollywood film, but spirals into an increasingly absurd and confused jumble of intertwined plots. Rita, a dark-haired woman who ...

New Currents

• Indonesia
• 2001
• 106min

Whispering Sands is a muted story of the relationship between a soul-searching village girl and her jaded, possessive mother. Daya′s father, who was a traveling medicine peddler, deserted the family long ago. As a single mother,...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India,United States
• 2001
• 104min

Delhi is a complex city, comprised of people and languages from various levels of society, yet it manages to balance the importance of the present and the traditional past. The monsoon season has a special significance in these di...

World Chinema

• UK
• 2001
• 87min

The Warriors is the tale of an epic journey from the remote, timeless deserts of India to the Himalayan mountains. The story follows Lafcadia, head of a small band of warriors employed by a tyrannical Lord. The warriors are orde...

World Chinema

• Bulgaria,the Netherlands,Hungary
• 2001
• 88min

"Life passes like a shadow..." Ivan only remembers the first line of an old folk song once believed capable of resurrecting the dead. The young man used to sing it with his best friend Kamen, who now struggles to stay alive in an ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Singapore,United States
• 2001
• 88min

Ah Na is a young Chinese immigrant girl living in New York. She works illegally at a Chinese restaurant with the hopes of someday realizing an "American dream." In her unexpected visit to "Golden Palace" around Grand Central Stati...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2001
• 119min

Hou Hsiao Hsien attempts to create a new film language with which to express himself for a new millennium. His first filmic attempt to do just that is Millennium Mambo. The film is about a woman, Vicky, who wants to escape from he...

World Chinema

• Croatia
• 2001
• 86min

The Cashier Wants to Go to the Seaside is the comic heartbreaking tale of shy, sad-faced Barica, who yearns her well-earned vacation to take her ailing daughter to the seaside. After her corrupt, self-absorbed boss yet again thw...

Special Programs in Focus

• Thailand
• 2001
• 119min

A long time ago, the population of Bang Rajan rose up and sacrificed their lives courageously fighting against the Burmese forces. With a storyline that seems plucked from a history book, this film received raved reviews and was o...