World Cinema

• Germany
• 2000
• 101 min

Rita Vogt is seduced into the terrorist movement through her sense of justice and her love for Andi. A few years later, realizing that the movement is falling apart, she goes underground, hiding out in East Germany. With the help ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Iran,Italy
• 2000
• 80 min

The Day | Became a Woman is a ′compressed file′ containing the social reality that women in Iran face. This feature is comprised of three segments, beginning with the perspective of a nine-year-old about to begin life as a woman i...

World Cinema

• Austria
• 2000
• 84 min

Andreas is unemployed, divorced and at the end of his rope. His alimony is in arrears and he doesn′t even have enough cash to buy his son a birthday present. His despair leads him to a supermarket, which he plans to rob. However, ...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2000
• 100 min

"The beauty of digital cinema lies with its ability to bring out the natural acting from the actors who become less camera conscious. It′s an effective way to embody realism, much more effective than analog cinema." Tears is a dig...

World Cinema

• France
• 2000
• 117 min

Michel and Claire are a married couple growing increasingly frustrated with their everyday lives. Their upcoming vacation offers them little relief - a stifling heat wave, dilapidated accommodations and three bad-tempered daughter...

Wide Angle

• Canada
• 2000
• 80 min

Marijuana is the most controversial drug of the twentieth century. Smoked by generations of musicians, students, and workers to little discernible ill effect, it continues to be reviled by the vast majority of governments around t...

Open Cinema

• Russia,France
• 2000
• 112 min

Months before a single drop of blood was shed, no one could have told officer Pyotr Grinyov that rebellion was a senseless enterprise. If someone had unveiled her future at that point, Masha Mironova would have been terrified by w...

World Cinema

• France
• 2000
• 93 min

An incredibly gifted young dancer, whose style is "street," is influenced as much by break-dancing as by ballet. Mute since birth, she competes weekly for cash in New York′s hippest nightclub. Then she is discovered by a handsome,...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2000
• 92 min

It′s 1999 and several Burmese nationals assemble in front of the Myanmar Embassy in Seoul, crying for democracy in their country. For Koreans who are used to mass demonstration, this gathering may be meager, but to the ones involv...

Wide Angle

• Switzerland
• 2000
• 24 min

Meric, a five-year-old boy who lives with his family in a suburb of Istanbul, witnessed his father′s abduction by the secret police. Unable to cope with this traumatic experience, Meric begins a desperate search for his father. Wh...