main programme
Overview of films
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Johns
Scott Silver | 92' | USA |
Young actors who moved to Hollywood in vain, keep themselves alive with prostitution. -
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Junk Mail
Pål Sletaune | 83' | Norway |
Exuberant, entertaining black comedy about a corrupt postman, the slums of Oslo, love, cold tinned spaghetti, karaoke, a variety of good deeds, drudge -
Just A Job
Samir Samir | 5' | Switzerland |
u-In a nutshell Samir provides a personal and political reflection on the Gulf War. Like Immer und Ewig (screened in Rotterdam last year) Samir uses… -
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Kain i Artem
P. Petrov-Bytov | 86' | USSR |
Copy of Soviet film classic restored by the Nederlands Filmmuseum about the love between a young worker and the wife of a fishing magnate with… -
Kalifornia
Dominic Sena | 120' | USA |
Vibrant début filled with explosive sexuality and black humour. -
Karura no Yume
Zeze Takahisa | 60' | Japan | International premiere
Erotic and violent story involving old myths. Protagonist Ikuo recognises a prostitute as the woman he raped years before. -
Kasaba
Nuri Bilge Ceylan | 85' | Turkey |
Awe-inspiring black-and-white début film of Nuri Bilge Ceylan, shot in a village in Anatolia, about the director’s childhood years. Two children are w -
Kauas pilvet karkaavat
Aki Kaurismäki | 96' | Finland |
Latest impressive film by productive, idiosyncratic Kaurismäki is a psychological sketch of unemployment. -
Kavkazskij plennik
Sergei Bodrov | 95' | Russia |
Topical and wonderfully photographed anti-war drama based on a story by Tolstoi. In Chechnya rebels take two Russian prisoners of war to a remote moun -
Keep Cool
Zhang Yimou | 94' | China |
Zhang’s latest film is contemporary in form and content and shot in the streets, apartments, cafés and karaoke-bars of Peking. Bookseller follows sexy