Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2000
• 13 min

One early morning, Shaman, Il-Hwa discovers that all ghosts she had sent to heaven were waiting to greet her. Even as someone who soothes other spirits‘ lingering attachments, she finds it quite difficult to find peace in the fac...

World Cinema

• Sweden
• 2000
• 106min

It′s 1975. Elisabeth takes her two children and leaves her husband. She has decided to no longer suffer her husband′s aggression nor her stifling role as a housewife. Her brother Goran, who lives in Stockholm in a commune called T...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong
• 2000
• 117 min

When the filmmaker was surveying the streets of Mongkok to shoot Little Cheung, the last part of Fruit Chan′s ′Trilogy of Hong Kong Handover,′ he came across a prostitute from the mainland. His unsuccessful attempt to insert her s...

World Cinema

• Greece
• 2000
• 178 min

The island of Chios, 1960. Following the sudden death of the local rural guard, the council of the village of Tholopotami pressures the district agronomist to appoint a new man in the place of the deceased. The available rural gua...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2000
• 100 min

Lagarista, transporting film reels between theaters by bike, is still prevalent in the Philippines. Gregory works the Lagarista, while taking care of his grandfather ailing from Alzheimer’s. He hangs out with projectionist, Jimmy;...

World Cinema

• United States
• 2000
• 90 min

The Limey follows Wilson, a tough English ex-con, who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his daughter′s death. As he mounts his design for vengeance, he allies himself with two friends of his deceased daughter, Ed and Elaine, who fi...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2000
• 63 min

It′s 1998 as the filmmaker drives through the streets of Seoul in a taxi. His adventures feature seven motor-mouthed drivers who relate stories that are interesting yet bitter. Mr. Lee lectures on improving male potency and lovema...

Opening Film

• India
• 2000
• 99 min

Defining what is and is not normal in a society is not an easy task. This film introduces people who seem normal and others who do not, presenting social critique as allegory. Keepers of the local railroad tracks, Balaram and Nima...

Wide Angle

• India
• 2000
• 100 min

A portrait of the world-renowned filmmaker, Satyajit Ray (1921-1992), hailed as the god of the Indian cinema. Ray was born in Calcutta in 1921, and raised in an atmosphere that was both artistic and intellectual. After studying ec...

World Cinema

• Iceland,Denmark,France,Norway
• 2000
• 92 min

Hlynur leads a protected life within the safe confines of his doting mother′s home in downtown Reykjavik. Though a thriving city awaits outside his door, the reclusive young man is content to live on social security and avoid the ...