Special Programs in Focus

• Tadjikistan
• 2000
• 107 min

This film tells the themes of ′love′ and ′life′ in a beautiful and fantastic, yet sad fashion. In a small village 17 year old girl Mamlakat lives with her father and an ignorant brother. One moonlit night, she goes to the theatre ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong
• 2000
• 107 min

This, last part of Fruit Chan′s ′Trilogy of Hong Kong Handover,′ is a self-portrait of Hong Kong during a period of transition seen through the eyes of a nine-year boy. Fruit Chan chooses the normal daily routines of ordinary peop...

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2000
• 113 min

In this superbly crafted, yet disturbing, look at a group of people far from their homeland, Karmakar presents us with a cross-section of people in an unforgiving, almost merciless manner. A group of Germans are stuck in the Manil...

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2000
• 90 min

The film tells the story of three generations of women. They are three very different women, all named Madeleine, who are brought together by their shared quest to slowly peel away and recreate the layers of their fragmented memor...

World Cinema

• France
• 2000
• 80 min

Claire is an anthropology student - something of an eternal student as she is almost 30 years of age. Her life is one big collection of anxieties and frustrations: her parents are small-minded; her kid sister is always in trouble;...

Special Programs in Focus

• Kazakhstan
• 2000
• 65 min

In 1979, when the Republic of Kazakhstan was still a part of the Soviet Union, suppressed rage and the loneliness fill Almaty. On the last day of classes, three high school students - a Russian Valera, a Jew Jacob, and a Kazakh Ka...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2000
• 9 min

Blink is a story of a mother and her young daughter who make a living by assembling dolls. The daughter wants to play with these dolls but the mother doesn′t allow it. The child′s desire to have the doll results in a scene of deat...

World Cinema

• Yugoslavia
• 2000
• 94 min

In a remote train station, far from the worries and irritations of urban life, Mak operates the lone taxi service. Eight months ago, called to fight for his country, he was immediately wounded and spent the rest of the war recuper...

Wide Angle

• Canada
• 2000
• 6min 10sec

A young woman works as an exotic dancer in a bar. The customers?hats remind her of a man she knew as a child. The man had entered her bedroom, turned back the sheets, and laid his hands on her body. The woman, conscious of having ...

World Cinema

• Germany,Georgia
• 2000
• 96 min

It was a summer unlike any other. Sybille promised Mickey one hundred kisses before the autumn. But he only got 73. The summer of the eclipse, fourteen year-old Sybille, arrives in a sleepy little town to spend her vacation from s...