World Chinema

• Canada
• 2001
• 97min

Lola spends her days at the therapist, wandering through the streets, dabbling in fashion design or obliviously running errands for her husband Mike. Their relationship is at a standstill: A distance has grown between them and the...

World Chinema

• Austria,Germany
• 2001
• 80min

Teenaged Rita is an unruly outsider: she is indifferent to her classmates, who laugh at her behavior, her teachers find her rude, and her parents lock her in as punishment. The nature of Rita′s various stunts evinces her uncertain...

World Chinema

• Zimbabwe,Tunisie,BurkinaFaso,
• 2001
• 85min

This groundbreaking short film initiative brings together three amazing African Stories by some of the most skillful and imaginative women filmmakers from the vast and diverse continent of Africa, collecting for the first time the...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia
• 2001
• 115min

Marsinah focuses on the events following the death of a woman laborer named Marsinah. In 1993, three days after her mysterious disappearance, her tortured body is found on a farm. She has been sadistically raped and murdered. Du...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2001
• 6min

An animated film about two people′s hope to narrow the gap between. A man and a woman experience a chance encounter in an empty space. A wall suddenly separates them, and they struggle reach each other beyond the wall. Although ea...

New Currents

• India
• 2001
• 101min

A quiet yet enraged social commentary by Digvijay Singh. In India, some monks still perform ritualistic rape on girls who have just started their period. All in the name and for the grace of god. Maya began with newspaper reports ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2001
• 119min

Hou Hsiao Hsien attempts to create a new film language with which to express himself for a new millennium. His first filmic attempt to do just that is Millennium Mambo. The film is about a woman, Vicky, who wants to escape from he...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Singapore,United States
• 2001
• 88min

Ah Na is a young Chinese immigrant girl living in New York. She works illegally at a Chinese restaurant with the hopes of someday realizing an "American dream." In her unexpected visit to "Golden Palace" around Grand Central Stati...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India,United States
• 2001
• 104min

Delhi is a complex city, comprised of people and languages from various levels of society, yet it manages to balance the importance of the present and the traditional past. The monsoon season has a special significance in these di...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2001
• 102min

Before there were reevaluations of his filmography, this film was regarded as Shin Sang-Ok′s best work. It stills ranks high on the list of his major films. Choi Eun-Hee, who, other than in A Flower in Hell, usually portrayed a tr...