Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2000
• 114 min

It′s circa 1920. Sixteen year-old Soonie marries into a family with a 10 year-old boy as her husband. Later the now grown-up husband comes back from his studies with his westernized girlfriend and sets up a family. Driven out of h...

Wide Angle

• Uzbekistan
• 2000
• 18 min

This peculiar animated film is based on the fairy tale of Hans Christian Andersen. One day Shakh was presented with a golden toy-mechanical bird, imitated nightingale singing. But the nightingale left, the Shakh was sick and almos...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2000
• 16min

Something is missing from the gig by inhabitants of planet Koong Koong Ttak, that being a guitarist, the essence of a rock and roll band. Maybe they‘ve heard the entreaties by a second-timer on planet Earth. The film unfolds as a ...

World Cinema

• 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 flamboyant wigs can no longer cover up the pains ...

New Current

• Japan
• 2000
• 120 min

Ex-critic Makoto Shinozaki′s new feature is rich enough to seem like several films in one. At one level it′s a film about the trials and tribulations of old age - an urgent issue in Japan, where the birth-rate is slowing and the p...

Open Cinema

• United States
• 2000
• 102min

McGill, a garrulous, silver-tongued, petty criminal, has difficulty adjusting to the regimentation of life as a man sentenced to a term of hard labor on a Mississippi chain gang. Finally, he scams his way off the chain gang with a...

World Cinema

• France
• 2000
• 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 small-minded; her kid sister is always in trouble;...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2000
• 7 min

One Good Day is about a rascal girl created out of the author‘s childhood memories. She runs away from home afraid of the scolding she‘d get for breaking the rice jar; she soon forgets the whole thing and sets out on another one o...

Special Programs in Focus

• Uzbekistan
• 2000
• 83 min

Orator discloses the dark side of the glory of the Russian Revolution through a compassionate gaze upon the people whose lives had been helplessly racked by its iron principles. The film poses the question, “can the changes induce...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2000
• 73 min

In 1996, Japanese film director Nagisa Oshima was suddenly seized with cerebral apoplexy just after announcing the production of a new film. Although it was feared that he might be disabled for life, Oshima, after three long years...