World Chinema

• Yugoslavia,Germany
• 2001
• 83min

In post-war Berlin, during the retreat of the soviet soldiers to the homeland, Vicky, a major in the Red Army, realizes that he has been abandoned by his troop. He believes that even imprisonment must be more pleasant than returni...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2001
• 90min

There have been many stories about the revolution of 1949 and subsequent changes in China. However, most of these ′stories′ fail to escape the trappings of an ideological viewpoint. In particular, the stories of those who had to...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2001
• 90min

Since the mid-1990s Zhang Yimou, has been battling to find hope amidst the chaos of China′s society. Zhang′s films have, at times, entertained with ideals and ideas, but his popularity and appeal owe more to his strong story lines...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2001
• 92min

Akihiko Shiota′s Moonlight Whispers is about the sado-masochistic relationship between two high school students, and was one of the most impressive debut films in 1999. This time the director tells us a story about a girl who has ...

Wide Angle

• Singapore
• 2001
• 7min

Hock Hiap Leong is a short film that pays tribute to a 55-year-old coffee shop that has been an incessant inspiration to many people on Armenian Street. On 31 March 2001, urban re-development saw the demolition of this epitaph of ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong
• 2001
• 108min

Hong Kong is a city of strange mixtures; the past and the present, of East and West. To Fruit Chan, this duality of the city never fails to bring out an artistic inspiration. Hollywood Hong Kong too, is about the city′s duality--...

World Chinema

• United States,France
• 2001
• 96min

The comedy starring Patricia Arquette, Tim Robbins, Rhys Ifans and Miranda Ott, Human Nature follows the ups and downs of an obsessive scientist, a female naturalist, and the man they discover, born and raised in the wild. As scie...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2001
• 80min

This film may be seen as a Chinese version of Taxi Driver, focusing on the daily life of one of the city′s many taxicab operators. One of China′s fifth generation directors, Ning Ying sees today′s China from a very critical perspe...

World Chinema

• Iceland
• 2001
• 92min

Toti, an irresponsible, shady, thirty-year-old loud mouth, is coping with a mid-life crisis 15 years too early. He tries to make a financial killing by importing the Bulgarian cigarettes into Iceland, for which he is criticized. B...

World Chinema

• the Netherlands
• 2001
• 82min

lles flottantes or ′floating isles′ is the name of a well-known French dessert: meringue drizzled with vanilla cream. The film involves three friends, Kaat, Sasha and Isa, who are drifting through life freely, living with amusingl...