World Chinema

• Canada
• 2001
• 95min

Alessa Woo is a glamour girl living beyond her means. Hounded by suitors she deems "fiscally unsound" Alessa poses as a rich Asian heiress to marry her millionaire. A struggling artist named Ben moves in next door. They share an ...

New Currents

• Japan
• 2001
• 83min

Rebellion is one of the key elements of teen movies, and for teen movies set in classrooms, rebellion against the repressive educational system and conservative elders are two key elements. Toshiyaki Toyoda′s Blue Spring seems to ...

Open Cinema

• Japan
• 2001
• 91min

A new film by the director of My Secret Cache and Adrenalin Drive, Waterboys is a very entertaining film about a group of high school boys who try out as a synchronized swimming team. Based on a true story, the film? main characte...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kyrgyzstan
• 2001
• 90min

The last part of Aktan Abdykalykov′s autobiographical trilogy about growing up. The Swing(1993) dealt with his childhood; The Adopted Son(1998) was about his adolescence; and The Chimp(2001) concerns his youth. Set in a small hope...

World Chinema

• Brazil
• 2001
• 85min

Lena is in her eighth month of pregnancy. The child′s father has left her. Here, on an almost deserted highway in a desolate hinterland, she runs a small general store where people can also eat and drink. Vilela is hoping to make ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2001
• 27min

A boy, who had crossed the ocean and landed on New York′s Time Square when he was fourteen, is now grown up aged twenty-four walks through the streets. He tells us how he struggled with cultural differences and how his name change...

World Chinema

• France
• 2001
• 97min

In Paris, where he wields his money scams, Alex has an unexpected encounter with two girls: Fred, who′s nothing to do with his world and who he falls for straight away, and the sweet but lonely Sylvia. To test Alex, Fred devises a...

Wide Angle

• Mongolia
• 2001
• 23min

A Vanishing Trade is a story about a cinema operator. Kharkhuu, as before, has been traveling to remote herders′ families to show films, thus continuing the old and almost vanished tradition of itinerant film showings. He travel...

World Chinema

• France,Italy,Israel
• 2001
• 91min

Samantha and her husband Dov immigrate to Palestine in the 1940s. They are American Zionists motivated by political idealism. Dov is a communist architect who devotes his time to building the new country, leaving his wife on her o...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2001
• 13min

Strangers invade a sacred, fog-ridden forest, hunting for rabbits surprised, an indigenous forest-dweller tracks for the hunters by listening to the sound of their shotguns. The forest-dweller throws his axe in the belief he has l...