A Window on Asian Cinema

• Yusup Razykov
• Uzbekistan
• 2000
• 74 min

Letters from an unknown place can bring joy. Women′s Paradise from Uzbekistan is truly a delightful experience full of exotic sensibility and human warmth. The main character is co...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Yongyooth Thongkonthun
• Thailand
• 2000
• 104 min

Most films on homosexuality and sexual identity approach these subjects with great seriousness, either through the subject of AIDS or existential approaches to a person who has run...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Marilou Diaz-Abaya
• Philippines
• 1999
• 117 min

Reef Hunters is an allegory about a man′s ambition and despair, which in turn threatens a group and drives him to destruction. Various dramatic motives constitute the structure of ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Lou Ye
• China,Germany
• 2000
• 83 min

Many stories surround the Suzhou River, the body of water that runs through the city of Shangai. Among them is the passionate story of lovers, Mardar and Moudan, who surrender thei...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Yang Yazhou
• China
• 1998
• 113 min

Steal Happiness is a humorous yet sad tale of the harsh lives of a poverty-ridden family. Zhang Damin, who works at a thermos factory, lives in a two-room shack with his widowed mo...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Jafar PANAHI
• Iran
• 2000
• 90 min

Filmmaker, Jafar Panahi explores the various issues that surround Iranian woman from the core of Iranian society. The film begins in the hospital where a new life is brought into t...

Special Programs in Focus

• Marzieh MESHKINI
• 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 o...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Garin Nugroho
• Indonesia
• 1999
• 87 min

Based on true historical facts when, in October 1965, Indonesia, seven generals were assassinated. The government claimed that it was committed by communists and issued a harsh cla...

Opening Film

• Buddhadeb Dasgupta
• 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. Keep...

Wide Angle

• Mavzur Makhmudov
• Uzbekistan
• 1999
• 18 min

This peculiar animated film is based on the fairy tale of Hans Christian Andersen. One day Shakh was presented with a golden toy-mechanical bird, imitated nightingale singing. But ...