2000s

  • Oi Wah Lam – Shap yee yeh AKA Twelve Nights (2000)

    1991-2000DramaHong KongOi Wah LamRomance

    Air stewardess Jeannie meets engineer Alan on a bus and the two start their love. The two are deeply attached to each other at the very beginning and feel the passage of affection as time goes on. They break up ultimately and start to find their new other half.Read More »

  • Yuhang Ho – Sham moh aka At the End of Daybreak (2009)

    2001-2010DramaMalaysiaYuhang Ho

    From IMDB:
    A 23-year-old man looking to escape the burden of his alcoholic mother strikes up an illicit online relationship with a 15-year-old schoolgirl.Read More »

  • Yun-su Jeon – Mi-in-do AKA Portrait of a Beauty (2008)

    2001-2010DramaRomanceSouth KoreaYun-su Jeon

    Yun-jeong is a young girl in 18th Century Korea who has an aptitude for, and a love of, painting, but as women in the Joseon dynasty are not deemed worthy to put brush to paper, she allows her brother to take the credit for her artwork. When her deception leads to her brother’s tragic death, Yun-jeong is sent away to study the art of painting in his place, disguised as a man and taking her brother’s name in the hope of becoming an artist in the Royal Court.Read More »

  • Atom Egoyan – Adoration (2008)

    2001-2010Atom EgoyanCanadaDrama

    Quote:
    For his French-class assignment, a high school student weaves his family history in a news story involving terrorism, and goes on to invite an Internet audience in on the resulting controversy.Read More »

  • Masato Hara – MI TA RI! (2002)

    2001-2010DocumentaryExperimentalJapanMasato Hara

    Quote:
    Film director Masato Hara welcomes MAORI as a partner and begins a new life. The two of us routinely turn the 8mm camera and make songs while the days go by. The time between the two will soon be the time for the three with their newborn eldest son, KOBOH. And a small family trip. Head south from Kyoto to Hiroshima, Kyushu, and Okinawa. Put enough luggage, shooting equipment and accordion in a small car.Read More »

  • Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche – Wesh wesh, qu’est-ce qui se passe? (2001)

    2001-2010ArthouseFranceRabah Ameur-Zaïmeche

    Synopsis:
    Halfway between documentary and fiction, ’Wesh wesh’ is a take on the everyday life of an immigrant family which is struggling to integrate into France or, rather into the ’Cite des Bosquets’ a low-income housing project in the Parisian suburbs. Like every district, it is a world of its own, with its rules and values. Mousse, the younger brother has understood how it works there. He has integrated a gang, and deals everyday with small time drug trafficking and protects his territory. On the other hand, his older brother who just came back after 2 years in prison, wants to start a normal life and integrate into society. He understands soon enough that it is hard to succeed behind the walls of ‘Les Bosquets’. He tries to find a job, with the help of his family. But without ID papers, and with the police after him, he is stuck in the neighborhood, spending time with the street kids. One day, he finds a fishing rod, and escapes from the city, going fishing in a lake, close to where he lives…Read More »

  • Zelimir Zilnik – Cosmo Girls (2000)

    1991-2000DocumentaryHungaryShort FilmZelimir Zilnik

    This is a series of portraits of women from different fields of work who find new occupations and ways to support their families in the transitional period. The following women give us their views of the relationship between men and women – a Chinese woman who owns a beauty salon and hairdresser’s studio; women who work for the first privately owned shoes factory; women who participate at the Erotic Fair in Budapest; a manager of an exclusive fish restaurant and successful business women.Read More »

  • Gur Bentwich – Mashehu Totali AKA Total Love (2000)

    1991-2000AdventureGur BentwichIsraelRomance

    Three friends concoct the ultimate love drug, TLV, and fall in love with the same woman, Renana. Years later, Renana’s ex-lovers team up to rescue her from an Indian prison.Read More »

  • Cynthia Wade – Freeheld (2007)

    2001-2010Cynthia WadeDocumentaryQueer Cinema(s)Short FilmUSA

    Lieutenant Laurel Hester is dying. All she wants to do is leave her pension benefits to her life partner – Stacie, so Stacie can afford to keep their house. Laurel is told no; they are not husband and wife. After spending a lifetime fighting for justice for other people, Laurel – a veteran New Jersey detective – launches a final battle for justice. Knuckle-biting, dramatic Freeheld chronicles a dying policewoman’s bitter fight to provide for the love of her life.Read More »

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