Wide Angle

• Russia,Kyrgyzstan
• 2001
• 15min

This film beautifully depicts the mood of a Russian town preparing for a young boy′s circumcision ceremony. The boy′s fear and anxiety is effectively contrasted with the celebratory atmosphere of the townspeople. The realistic p...

Wide Angle

• France
• 2001
• 87min

This documentary essay in four chapters confronts the existence of four people (eye surgeon Yves Pouliquen, sculptor Jean-Louis Faure butcher Michel Labelle, and editor and producer Francoise Widhoff). The author approaches ...

World Chinema

• Germany,Italy,France,India
• 2001
• 138min

Set in the majestic landscape of the Himalayas, Samsara tells an epic tale of a spiritual quest. Tashi is a brilliant young Buddhist monk who is just completing three years of solitary meditation in a remote hermitage. While perfo...

Wide Angle

• United States
• 2001
• 90min

Robert is a friendly cowboy from Georgia with a sense of humor. The love of Robert′s life is Lola. Robert and Lola are transsexuals. Robert was born a girl, Lola a boy. Robert′s integration into his new life was so successful that...

World Chinema

• the Netherlands
• 2001
• 82min

lles flottantes or ′floating isles′ is the name of a well-known French dessert: meringue drizzled with vanilla cream. The film involves three friends, Kaat, Sasha and Isa, who are drifting through life freely, living with amusingl...

World Chinema

• Ireland,United States
• 2001
• 90min

On the Edge is a beautifully etched Irish drama about a young man who conceals his adolescent pain behind a mordant sense of humor and a bent for self-destruction. After a near-fatal accident in a stolen car, 19-year-old Jonathan ...

World Chinema

• Canada
• 2001
• 95min

Century Hotel is a sumptuous and stirring epic of an anonymous hotel room that, over the course of a century, sees every kind of human drama. Through a series of seven intricately woven stories we witness the defining moments in t...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea(north)
• 2001
• 96min

Another North Korean film, presented for the first time in Busan with Runaway. After 5 years of imprisonment, director Shin Sang-Ok directed 7 films in the span of 2 and a half years. Salt is based on a short story by Kang Kyung-A...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2001
• 109min

A strange yet intellectual horror film, Sorum is a chilling tale about a group of people confined by bad karma; revenge, transference of sin and guilt, and a brutal murder. 30 years ago a man killed his wife and set fire to the ho...

World Chinema

• Estonia,Latvia
• 2001
• 90min

Margita is a skillful thief. Everything not nailed down becomes hers, from the wallets to jeeps. When the police hear about her, the streets of Riga become too risky for her trade, and Margita flees the country. But she doesn′t go...