A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2001
• 85min

A director shouts. In a land where in the course of twenty years 2.5 million people died of hunger and war, and where 6.5 million still wander as refugees, he screams, risking his own life. Kandahar is a film with a message to the...

World Chinema

• Norway
• 2001
• 102min

The entire extended family is happily on its way to a nostalgic Christmas at a rented cabin in the mountains. The cabin becomes cramped, however, when mom and dad and four grown-up children with their respective families, a dog ...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2001
• 50min

It is hard to accept something ′as it is,′ or as a whole. This is because of people′s inclination for selectivity; we give an object a meaning by selecting bits and pieces of it according to own perspective. This is more so when o...

Open Cinema

• United States
• 2001
• 126min

In The Contender, the sudden death of the vice president of the United States forces U.S. president Jackson Evans to pick a replacement. He decides against picking the popular governor of Virginia, Jack Hathaway, and instead makes...

Wide Angle

• Norway
• 2001
• 105min

This ′documentary musical′ gives us a closer look at the fishing village of Berlevag on the Barents Sea, a place made famous by Isak Dinesen′s novel Babette′s Feast. Today, its musical group, a thirty-member male choir, is the vil...

Special Programs in Focus

• Thailand
• 2001
• 105min

A film about five killers and their mishaps. It′s the year 2011. The economy has collapsed and the US dollar is the currency of the State. Pae Bufgun, a washed-up hitman just out of prison, is mistakenly hired to assassinate Bangk...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea(north)
• 2001
• 110min

Shin Sang-Ok′s appearance can be considered an event in North Korea, a country lacking forms of contact outside its borders. Runaway has been recognized as Shin Sang-Ok′s best film among his seven productions in North Korea. Based...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2001
• 94min

The protagonist, Su Daquan, is a middle-aged, unmarried man working for his father′s taxi company whose adventures provide various episodes to this twisted yet comic film. Su Daquan′s family and fellow drivers help fill in the com...

World Chinema

• Russia
• 2001
• 90min

Taurus by Alexander Sokurov is the second part of a tetralogy on 20th century dictators. After depicting an unusual Hitler in Moloch(1999), the director of 29 features now portrays Lenin. The man who changed the course of history ...

World Chinema

• UK
• 2001
• 110min

My Brother Tom is the story of two teenagers. Boys at school taunt Jessica for being a toffee-nosed virgin and Tom is bullied for being a weirdo. When they meet, Jessica becomes both anxious and intrigued by Tom′s darker side. The...