Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2001
• 84min

Abbas Kiarostami receives a fax from an international organization asking him to direct a film about thousands of children orphaned in Africa. He accepts the offer, and heads to Africa with a DV camera in his hand. In this docum...

World Chinema

• Greece
• 2001
• 89min

Andreas travels to his dead mother′s home on the island. The character of the landscape has been altered. And the inhabitants - those that remain - don′t remember much. Foreign families and groups flood the island . Andreas can n...

Open Cinema

• Germany
• 2001
• 120min

Cologne cab driver Tarek Fahd is reading the newspaper when a strange item catches his eye, an ad offering 4000 marks each to volunteers for a psychological experiment. One night, just before Tarek begins the experiment -- which i...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2001
• 140min

Yeonsangun is the first historic piece by the ′giant of the historical films′ director Shin Sang-Ok. Based on Park Jong-Hwa′s novel (1938), the film depicts the motivation behind Yeonsan′s atrocities, a longing for his mother. Yeo...

Open Cinema

• France
• 2001
• 93min

Bored with her husband Henri, a wealthy newspaper owner obsessed with his work, a middle-aged woman, Jeanne Tournier, regularly trots off to Paris, where her craving for excitement is satiated by a flighty crowd of socialites. Hen...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2001
• 9min

While trying to cut her wrists, a woman looks at the mirror and halts. She breaks the mirror and enters it. There, she finds her childhood self and her adult self, who is trying to commit suicide. A film noticeable for its experim...

World Chinema

• Turkey
• 2001
• 120min

Suat, Who still lives with his parents, works at his father′s store when he′s not trainnig as goalkeeper for Esnaf Spor, an amateur football, but she has never answered any of the many secret letters he has sent her through Little...

Open Cinema

• Japan
• 2001
• 116min

During the Heian period, an aristocracy called "Heiankyo" ruled Japan′s capitol, Kyoto. During this age of peace, the philosophy of Yin-Yang-- a mixture of geomancy, the principle of yin-yang, and magic--were in fashion among the ...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2001
• 105min

′Waikiki Brothers′ is a four-piece band led by the main character, Sung-Woo. Once a hot band in Seoul, their fortunes change for the worse due to economic recession. Wandering about in search of work, one-member calls it quits. Th...

New Currents

• Japan
• 2001
• 82min

A Drowning Man begins with the narration by Kumiko who says, "if we can dream after death, then death is not that bad, even if the dream is boring". This film explores love buried under daily routines and marriage problems, by emp...