Open Cinema

• Joel COEN
• United States
• 2000
• 102min

McGill, a garrulous, silver-tongued, petty criminal, has difficulty adjusting to the regimentation of life as a man sentenced to a term of hard labor on a Mississippi chain gang. F...

World Cinema

• Vinko Bresan
• Croatia
• 1999
• 97 min

Stipan, a young policeman working in Split, is punished for poor performance by being given a seemingly preposterous assignment. On the island where Stipan was born, several old re...

World Cinema

• Juan Carlos Tabio
• Spain,France
• 2000
• 106 min

At the center of The Waiting List is a bus station outside a small town. Every bus that pulls into the station is full, so the line of waiting passengers keeps growing. Included in...

Special Programs in Focus

• Aktan Abdykalykov
• Kyrgyzstan,France
• 1998
• 81min

Since his days of making short films, filmmaker, Aktan Abdykalykov has preferred autobiographical tales as his main subject. His experience as an adolescent takes a significant pla...

Special Programs in Focus

• Sergey Shugarev
• Turkmenistan
• 1996
• 74 min

The events take place in Turkmenistan, the former Soviet republic, now an independent state in Central Asia. The main character of the film is a young man who loves cinema. He forg...

Special Programs in Focus

• Lora Stepanskaya,Bayram Abdullaev
• Turkmenistan
• 1996
• 80 min

Sadyk, an old man, wakes with a premonition about death. It makes him remember his long life, and these reminiscences are the sequences of the story. The moment when life comes to ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Ermek Shinarbaev
• Kazakhstan
• 1993
• 82 min

In a small apartment somewhere in Almaty, two 20-years old boys puff on grass. A radio is playing; thin white smoke spirals toward the ceiling; tramways rattle by outside. The two ...

World Cinema

• Moufida Tlatli
• Tunisie
• 2000
• 124 min

Aicha is a young woman of 18 who must stay in Djerba while her husband, Said, works eleven months of the year in Tunis. Aicha expresses her desire to leave for Tunis. The brave and...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Shinji Somai
• Japan
• 2000
• 116 min

In the early eighties, Shinji Somai shook Japan with his record-breaking film, Sailor-Fuku To Kikanju and now celebrates his 20th anniversary as a filmmaker with his 13th film, a l...

World Cinema

• Valerij Ogorodnikov
• Russia,Germany
• 1999
• 110 min

Summer, 1953 in Satka, a small town south of The Urals between war-ravaged Russia and the Siberian gulags. Olga, sole survivor of a family wiped out in the siege of Leningrad, arri...