Korean Panorama

• 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 his third feature (his first in five years) was ′...

Special Retrospective Films of Krzysztof Zanussi

• Poland
• 2000
• 91 min

The film tells of the life of a young scientist whose passion is a philosophical searching for truth. His story is narrated on two levels. The first tells of Franciszek′s life in a ten-year span from the time he matriculated in a ...

Wide Angle

• Germany
• 2000
• 89 min

"In 1991 I traveled from Buenos Aires to Germany to study film. Seven years later, I had to return in order to make this film. Images of the Absence tells the story of a family which never became one: my family. The film is also a...

Wide Angle

• Ireland
• 2000
• 11 min

When Mrs. Duane′s husband passes away, she finds a very special way of dealing with his death. Based on a true story told by her grand uncle, Audrey O′Reilly′s screenplay was adapted from her short story of the same name.

Closing Film

• Hong Kong
• 2000
• 97 min

Since Days of Being Wild, filmmaker Won Kar Wai returns to 1960s Hong Kong to tell the tale of an adulterous affair involving two couples. Chief editor of a local daily newspaper, Chau and his wife move into a complex, where he me...

New Current

• Korea
• 2000
• 127 min

Eun-Suk wants to make a documentary film based on romances of everyday people through a series of interviews with passers-by. He attempts an interview with beauty parlor girl Young-Hee, who in turn tells him about her boyfriend no...

World Cinema

• Italy
• 2000
• 76 min

Maria, a seven year old girl who lives on the island of Ustica, has forgotten her mother’s birthday, and only remembers it when she sees her brothers present her with a gift of wild flowers. To make amends, she immediately sets of...

Wide Angle

• Russia
• 2000
• 3′ 20"

A very small piglet tells a story of its short but funny life.

World Cinema

• 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 a specific direction. His mother urges him to marr...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2000
• 116 min

In the early eighties, Shinji Somai shook Japan with his record-breaking film, Sailor-Fuku To Kikanju and now celebrates his 20th anniversary as a filmmaker with his 13th film, a love story that unravels as a road movie. Yuriko, a...