World Chinema

• France
• 2001
• 93min

Introspective and overweight Anais is 12 and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. Her body is both a citadel for her pain and a fortress. Hidden in the shadows or rejected, she is an observer. It′s summer, with a famil...

World Chinema

• Tunisie,France
• 2001
• 124min

Fatma is seventeen. Her mother is dead. She lives at home with her father, brothers, sisters and a cousin, Taher, who is staying for a while. One night, her cousin rapes her. Life goes on... but Fatma dreams of only one thing: to ...

New Currents

• Korea
• 2001
• 126min

After abandoning her infant in a restroom, Hye-Na sets out on a trip to find her mother. On her journey, she meets Ok-Nam, a woman who prostituted herself in order to buy her child a piano. The bus leads them into an unknown mount...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2001
• 50min

This film is about Iran′s fascination with football and the adulation of their football heroes on and off the pitch. The film presents a witty yet comprehensive panorama of Iranian society and modern history by discussing issues...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2001
• 117min

Friend has become a sort of a ′national film text′ boasting an all-time record of over 8 million viewers. The film enables us to understand the Korean people′s current collective entality as well as their political inertia because...

Open Cinema

• Hong Kong
• 2001
• 100min

An action film noir Fulltime Killer is a work without any clear reference to nationality--we only know that it was made somewhere in Asia. The film begins with a typical setting containing two professional killers, a woman, and a ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan,Korea
• 2001
• 122min

Go suggests a new perspective on the Korean-Japanese issue. In the words of the writer of the original story, Kazuki Kaneshiro, Go is not about national identity but about a young man and his agony. Following his father′s wishes, ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Thailand
• 2001
• 99min

Asked, "Do you want to play football or do you want money?", the consensus of the teenage boys playing football was "money." In Thailand, where football wagering is illegal, these boys, without the means of making a good living, s...

New Currents

• Iran
• 2001
• 84min

Four cars are driving through the northern regions of Iran. The passengers are all from different classes and have different destinations. They do not know each other, they just happen to be driving along the same road: a middle...

World Chinema

• Estonia,Latvia
• 2001
• 90min

Margita is a skillful thief. Everything not nailed down becomes hers, from the wallets to jeeps. When the police hear about her, the streets of Riga become too risky for her trade, and Margita flees the country. But she doesn′t go...