World Cinema

• UK
• 2000
• 110 min

Fiery Mexican sisters, Maya and Rosa, immigrants to the United States, work as office cleaners in a downtown Los Angeles office block. A fated meeting with Sam, a passionate American activist, inspires them to unionize. Their part...

Open Cinema

• Japan,United States,England
• 2000
• 110 min

A Yakuza′s family is killed in a Tokyo gang war. Searching for his brother in Los Angeles, he becomes friends with a young crook and begins a violent campaign to take control of the city′s drug traffic. “In Japan, the sworn broth...

Wide Angle

• Belgium
• 2000
• 7′ 35"

An ordinary man appears to be breeding flies in his apartment. He seems to be very fond of them. But appearances can be deceptive…

Special Retrospective Films of Krzysztof Zanussi

• Poland
• 2000
• 106 min

A group of university students attend a linguistic summer campus. They are consigned to the care of a young assistant professor who tries to treat them on a partnership basis and approach the competition for a research in linguist...

Special Programs in Focus

• Kazakhstan
• 2000
• 73 min

This film is a study of the psychology of a child′s soul who is in the process of adapting to unfarmiliar and unaccustomed environment. A cardiogram reveals the heart disease endured by a 12-year-old boy. His mother takes him from...

Wide Angle

• Russia
• 2000
• 3′ 40"

A tragic and comic story of a cat abused by two cruel children presented in a form of criminal investigation. A funny story of ‘crime and punishment.’

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2000
• 15 min

An ordinary village in the Iranian countryside. A young girl, who is being married off the next day, spends her last time with friends. As day breaks, she follows her husband on a horse, and leaves her beloved hometown through a b...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2000
• 23 min

A morning in August when cherries are about to ripen. A letter is delivered to brothers who spent their entire lives together. With his drunkard older brother still in bed, the younger one opens the letter and finds… The film sugg...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2000
• 120 min

A much publicized open casting of Hong Se-Mi as Choon-Hyang, plus a sneak preview for 10,000 patrons brought immediate notoriety to Kim Soo-Yong′s version. In addition, his film manages to showcase the exciting nature of Kim′s dir...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2000
• 110min

This version is from Hong Sung-Ki, a leading director of melodrama of the late 50’s, with his then-wife KIM Ji-Mi starring in the title role. The very first cinemascope color film ever to be shown in Korea, the film attracted adva...