Wide Angle

• Hong Kong,China
• 2001
• 11min

On the outskirts of a small town, a bus driver and her passengers encounter highway robbers. The robbers take the female bus driver in an attempt to rape her, but the passengers don′t have the guts to intervene. Finally, a young m...

Wide Angle

• China
• 2001
• 30min

A tired and dejected protagonist, short of the money needed for his mother′s hospital fees and in the middle of a relationship crisis with his girlfriend, discovers a bag full of money, instantly becoming a criminal. Can he evade ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong
• 2001
• 110min

A new film by Mabel Cheung, who previously released An Autumn′s Tale and City of Glass. Michael, a problematic child, temporarily moves to China to study, at his father′s insistence. Instead of studying, Michael joins a rock band ...

Wide Angle

• Hong Kong
• 2001
• 4min 30sec

A urinal in a dirty public toilet was treated rudely by all the users. One day, the urinal discovers that the female toilet is much cleaner, like a paradise. He decides to leave his position and goes on an adventure to the femal...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2001
• 113min

A thirty-something female announcer for a provincial T.V. station and a synchronous recording engineer in his late twenties, meet on the job and fall in love. However, to paraphrase a poet′s words, there is no happy love, and they...

World Chinema

• Poland
• 2001
• 140min

This is a story about rebellion, love, and the search for meaning in a changing world. Living in the multiracial city of Baku, Cezary Baryka greets the coming Bolshevik Revolution with feverish enthusiasm. His enthusiasm is dented...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2001
• 119min

Shohei Imamura′s preoccupation has always been the subject of what it means to be ′Human′ Although his characters may sometimes smell of filth, the point is that they always delve deeply into the condition of man and his nature. O...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran,Italy
• 2001
• 100min

Secret Ballot is a road movie-style satirical film attempting to examine an aspect of society through a balloting process. Set in a backcountry town of Iran, a female bureaucrat in charge of this town′s voting, makes visits to tow...

World Chinema

• Chile
• 2001
• 128min

Passion has its price when a repressed bachelor in a mid-life crisis falls for one of his teenaged servants. Don Andres is the last heir of the wealthy Avalos family. At an age of 58 he feels that life has been a long, unfulfilled...

World Chinema

• United States
• 2001
• 130min

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2000 Venice Film Festival, Before Night Falls is a richly imagined journey into the life and writings of the brilliant Cuban author and exile Reinaldo Arenas. This film spans the whole of Aren...