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Life as Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease
  • Krzysztof Zanussi
  • Poland
  • 2000
  • 99 min

Tomasz, a physician in his sixties, works on the set of a film about Saint Bernard. Intelligent but moody, Tomasz suspects he might be terminally ill. Medical tests confirm his sus...

World Cinema

Loners
  • David Ondricek
  • Czech Republic
  • 2000
  • 103 min

In this film, seven Prague-based characters attempt to forge and sustain "serious” relationships, which become a series of clashes leading to disappointment and loneliness. Robert ...

World Cinema

Manila
  • Romuald Karmakar
  • Germany
  • 2000
  • 113 min

In this superbly crafted, yet disturbing, look at a group of people far from their homeland, Karmakar presents us with a cross-section of people in an unforgiving, almost merciless...

World Cinema

Mechanism
  • Djordje Milosavljevic
  • Yugoslavia
  • 2000
  • 94 min

In a remote train station, far from the worries and irritations of urban life, Mak operates the lone taxi service. Eight months ago, called to fight for his country, he was immedia...

World Cinema

The Million Dollar Hotel
  • Wim WENDERS
  • Germany,United States
  • 1999
  • 121min

A gang of unique outcasts live in a downtown L.A. fleapit, known as the Million Dollar Hotel. Innocent Tom Tom serves them, and he falls for the street angel Eloise. One day, Izzy,...

World Cinema

No Place to Go
  • Oskar Roehler
  • Germany
  • 2000
  • 100 min

Middle-aged Hanna Flanders lives in a posh Munich apartment and hangs on to the faded fame she earned as a left-wing writer many years ago. Abuse of prescription drugs, make-up and...

World Cinema

Of Women and Magic
  • Claude Miller
  • France
  • 1999
  • 80 min

Claire is an anthropology student - something of an eternal student as she is almost 30 years of age. Her life is one big collection of anxieties and frustrations: her parents are ...

Korean Panorama

Il Mare
  • LEE Hyeon-seung
  • Korea
  • 2000
  • 96 min

Il Mare is a time-crossing romantic story happening in the same physical space. The original title, Shee Wol Eh, means love beyond time. Director Lee Hyun-Seung remarks that making...

Korean Panorama

Bongja
  • Park Chul-Soo
  • Korea
  • 2000
  • 94 min

The star of Bongja, Suh Gap-Sook, once claimed, "sometimes to have desires of starring in a porno film." With implicit lesbian tensions along with other risque elements, the star s...

Korean Panorama

Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors
  • Hong Sang-Soo
  • Korea
  • 2000
  • 126 min

This third feature by Hong Sang-Soo is void of any colors. His reasoning behind this is that information contained within color may make characters′ emotions dull. This black-and-w...

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