Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2001
• 90min

Singer Hahn Dae-Soo, who with his song ′Give Me Water′ sang about freedom, is a legendary artist who first introduced folk music to Korea. Due to political reasons, he had to leave the country and did not work as a musician for ne...

Special Programs in Focus

• Thailand
• 2001
• 13min

This film begins with the indelible scene of a mother hanging herself -- right next to her child. The child′s life is then centered on death: living with an ill grandmother and seeing the daily butchering of cows in a nearby sla...

World Chinema

• France,Italy,Israel
• 2001
• 91min

Samantha and her husband Dov immigrate to Palestine in the 1940s. They are American Zionists motivated by political idealism. Dov is a communist architect who devotes his time to building the new country, leaving his wife on her o...

Wide Angle

• Latvia,Sweden
• 2001
• 26min

A portrait of a woman who has spent every day for nearly 20 years doing the same monotonous, repetitive work, but who is, nonetheless, quite happy with her life. She is at peace with herself and has reconciled her dreams with her ...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2001
• 55min

Shot in black and white with digital 5.1CH by Sogo Ishii-with visual images and rock music pounding through the course of its 55 minutes-may well be called "cyber exciting battle movie". A man who, due to an electric shock as a ch...

World Chinema

• Switzerland,France
• 2001
• 98min

The title, meaning "In Praise of Love," is the latest film by the noted director, Jean-Luc Godard. We hear someone, who we do not see, describing a project about the four key moments of love: the initial meeting, physical passion,...

World Chinema

• Greece
• 2001
• 89min

Andreas travels to his dead mother′s home on the island. The character of the landscape has been altered. And the inhabitants - those that remain - don′t remember much. Foreign families and groups flood the island . Andreas can n...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2001
• 94min

In the late 1960′s, the Korean film industry began to lose its vibrancy due to strict censorship by the dictatorial Park Jung-Hee government. Shin Sang-Ok, who had then the biggest film company and studio in Korea, was under const...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2001
• 115min

Gang-Jae, a third-rate hoodlum with a tender heart, has a hard time intimidating debtors and sometimes even gets beaten up by younger hoodlums. One day he hears the news that Failan, a woman from China whom he married fraudulent...

World Chinema

• Sweden
• 2001
• 102min

Bendricks are a middle class family in 1970s Sweden including Bosse, who built their home, Mona and their three children Ola(17), Katta(15) and Morgan(12). All is in order on the surface, but a closer look reveals that everythin...