Closing Film

• Thailand
• 2001
• 185min

MC Chatrichalerm Yukol succeeded in recapturing the great epic story of Phra Suriyothai of the Ayothaya Kingdom. This film, which took seven years to complete, is an unprecedented masterpiece of our time. Yukol manages to emphas...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2001
• 117min

Kim Ki-Duk has become, along with Jang Sun-Woo, one of the most controversial filmmakers in Korea. In his new film, Address Unknown, set during the Park Jung-Hee regime of the 1970s, his characters sway between the darkness of the...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2001
• 117min

Woo-In is an employee for a down-block office in Seoul. His everyday life is filled with repetitive and meaningless tasks. But things are about to change when two women enter Woo-In′s life. Woo-In finds the girl of his dreams, Asa...

World Chinema

• France,Canada,Germany,Yugoslavia
• 2001
• 99min

Sweet Movie, perhaps Makavejev′s most controversial and scandalous, is a film that is simultaneously completely depraved and absolutely wonderful, a must-see for aficionados of foreign cinema. This film actually contains two paral...

Special Programs in Focus

• Thailand
• 2001
• 13min

This film begins with the indelible scene of a mother hanging herself -- right next to her child. The child′s life is then centered on death: living with an ill grandmother and seeing the daily butchering of cows in a nearby sla...

World Chinema

• France,Albania
• 2001
• 90min

A handsome young teacher named Andre arrives at a mountain village where he′s to be a new teacher at a local elementary school. Under the tight rule of the school Principal, Andre is surprised to discover that the only item on h...

World Chinema

• BurkinaFaso,France
• 2001
• 96min

Kombi is a poverty-stricken city dominated by an emperor who is Master of the World. In order to bring back prosperity, the emperor′s priests want to make a traditional human sacrifice, in which the people no longer believe. Sia h...

World Chinema

• Spain,United States
• 2001
• 121min

One day in late summer Ulises arrives in a small village on the coast where he is to teach literature at the local school. Under the influence of the sea, the fragrance of oranges and the wonderful French fries Martina cooks for h...

Wide Angle

• Russia
• 2001
• 10min

A gray anonymous mob wanders aimlessly in a storm. Suddenly a bright white individual appears among them. The hateful mob at first tries to destroy the individual but after its resurrection starts worshipping it. However, no one s...

World Chinema

• Ivory Coast
• 2001
• 90min

In a village on 17th Century West Africa′s "Slave Coast" the old chief N′Go insists that his son Ossei marry the daughter of a rich family. Unable to be with the girl he truly loves, Ossei leaves the village. That night, his villa...