A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2001
• 114min

The director and star from the highly successful Poppoya-Railroad Man return for The Firefly. Whereas in the earlier film, director Yasuo Furuhata captured the audiences by depicting the mental state of the middle-aged in Japan, i...

Wide Angle

• Singapore
• 2001
• 7min

Hock Hiap Leong is a short film that pays tribute to a 55-year-old coffee shop that has been an incessant inspiration to many people on Armenian Street. On 31 March 2001, urban re-development saw the demolition of this epitaph of ...

Wide Angle

• Hong Kong
• 2001
• 34min

A man prepares to buy a wheelchair for his physically-challenged father, who would like to take outings in the park. But as a poor salary man the wheelchair beyond his means. He seeks financial support from his brothers and sist...

World Chinema

• United States,France
• 2001
• 96min

The comedy starring Patricia Arquette, Tim Robbins, Rhys Ifans and Miranda Ott, Human Nature follows the ups and downs of an obsessive scientist, a female naturalist, and the man they discover, born and raised in the wild. As scie...

Openinig Film

• Korea
• 2001
• 120min

The 6th Pusan International Film Festival opens with director Bae Chang-Ho′s new film, The Last Witness; a solid drama without an inch of error. The body of an old man is found on the banks of the Han River. During his inquiry int...

World Chinema

• Czech Republic,France,Switzerland
• 2001
• 98min

Brotsher and sister Mirek and Jana grew up together in the small town of Policka. The murder of their much-hated father, staged as an accident, only serves to intensify their already strong emotional bond. Over the years the older...

Special Programs in Focus

• Thailand
• 2001
• 8min

A child of the slums, who lives in a stilt-supported house over the water, dreams of riding a white bicycle and works diligently to purchase one. The child′s labor-filled days are miserable. This film depicts the daily scenes of t...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2001
• 131min

The gas terror inflicted on innocent citizens by the Aum Shinrikyo (a religious cult) has been called the single biggest religion-related crime in Japan. But the members of Aum Shinrikyo committed many other crimes besides the g...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2001
• 8min

Burglars, who had crept into a house in the night, get into a fight with the father of the house. The man′s daughter wakes and joins in. After the ferocious encounter, the trespassers die. Even with its short running time, the fil...

World Chinema

• Yugoslavia,United States
• 2001
• 85min

Filmed in Yugoslavia and the US, this frenetic black comedy pitting sexual expression against political repression is Makavejev′s most famous film. The "WR" of the title refers to Wilhelm Reich, the sex theorist who was a center o...