World Cinema

• Dimos Avdeliodis
• Greece
• 1999
• 178 min

The island of Chios, 1960. Following the sudden death of the local rural guard, the council of the village of Tholopotami pressures the district agronomist to appoint a new man in ...

World Cinema

• Elia Schneider
• Venezuela,Spain
• 1999
• 105 min

Oliver, a child of only 11 years, is kicked out of his home by his alcoholic and violent stepfather. His mother, who fears being beaten, does not intervene. Oliver finds himself ha...

Special Programs in Focus

• Lee Hyung-Pyo
• Korea
• 1972
• 89 min

This is a 70′s adaptation of Choon-Hyang that centers around two sidekicks, Bang-Ja and Hyang-Dan. Popular comedy actors from that period provide social-satire in an implicit manne...

World Cinema

• Clara Law
• Australia
• 2000
• 118 min

JM, a young Japanese man, leads a solitary, uneventful life in Tokyo, his only company a couple of rare snakes. He dreams of owning a very special car- a 1967 Citroen DS. Via the I...

World Cinema

• Xavier Koller
• Germany
• 2000
• 102 min

Gripsholm plunges the audience into the pleasure-craving, decadent world of Berlin cabaret at the beginning of the 1930s. That was the time when the last taboos were torn down and ...

World Cinema

• Noemie Lvovsky
• France,Switzerland
• 1999
• 111 min

The film, with six intertitles for each section: "Prologue," "The Girls Are Five," "Kids," "Heartthrobs," "Holiday in Italy," "The Final Exam Year," and "Adulthood," is a story of ...

World Cinema

• Fow Pyng Hu, Brat Ljatifi
• the Netherlands
• 2000
• 80 min

Jacky, a 25-year-old living in Eindhoven with his Chinese immigrant mother, grew up in the vacuum between two cultures. He is intelligent but lacks the energy to steer his life in ...

World Cinema

• Amos Gitai
• France,Italy,Israel
• 2000
• 123 min

October 6, 1973 is a special day. It′s Yom Kippur in Israel and all is quiet. Then, war breaks out. Weinraud and his friend Ruso drive with all speed into the Golan Heights lookin...

World Cinema

• Leander Hausmann
• Germany
• 1999
• 101 min

The Sun Alley, the street Micha lives on, wends most of its way through West Berlin, with only its tail end in East Berlin. The apartment is cramped, the neighbor works for the sec...

World Cinema

• Volker Schlöndorff
• Germany
• 1999
• 101 min

Rita Vogt is seduced into the terrorist movement through her sense of justice and her love for Andi. A few years later, realizing that the movement is falling apart, she goes under...