Viennale 2000

[Roland Domenig]

The Vienna Film Festival "Viennale 2000" will be held from October 13 to 25.
The festival continues its strong focus on Japanese cinema and will show the
following films:

Japan       Blue Tower (SAKAGUCHI Katsumi) World Premiere
Japan       A New God (TSUCHIYA Yutaka)
Japan       Korei (KUROSAWA Kiyoshi)
Japan       Nabbie's Love (NAKAE Yuji)
Japan       One Piece (YAGUCHI Shinobu and SUZUKI Takuji)
Japan       Oz Mix (HARADA Ippei) short
Japan       Truths: A Stream (TSUCHIHASHI Masahiro)
Japan       W/O (HASEI Koki)
Japan       Helpless (AOYAMA Shinji)
Japan       Two Punks (AOYAMA Shinji)
Japan       Wild Life (AOYAMA Shinji)
Japan       An Obsession (AOYAMA Shinji)
Japan       Shady Grove (AOYAMA Shinji)
Japan       Embalming (AOYAMA Shinji)
Japan       June 26, 1998 (AOYAMA Shinji)
Japan       Eureka (AOYAMA Shinji)
Japan       In the Alley (AOYAMA Shinji)

Other Asian films that will be shown:

Korea       Nowhere to (LEE Myung-Se)
China       There's a Strong Wind in Beijing (JU An Qi)
China       Suzhou River (Lou Ye)
China       City Paradise (Tang Danian)
Hong Kong   Running Out of Time (Johnnie TO)
Hong Kong   The Mission (Johnnie TO)
Hong Kong   In the Mood For Love (WONG Kar Wai)
Taiwan      Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang LEE)
India       The Lady of the House (Ritupamo GHOSH)
Thailand    Mysterious object at noon (Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL)
Thailand    6ixtynin9 (Pen-ek RATANUARUANG)
Kampuchea   The Land of the Wandering Souls (Rithy PANH)
Tajikistan  The Well (Jamshed USMONOV)
Kasachstan  Three Brother (Serik APRIMOV)
Iran        The Circle (Jafar PANAHI)
Iran        Djomeh (Hassan YEKTAPANAH)
Iran        Mokarrameh, Memories and Dreams (Ebrahim MOKHTARI)
Iran        Zinat, a Special Day (Ebrahim MOKHTARI)
Iran        P as in Pelikan (Parviz KIMIAVI)
Iran        O Protector (Parviz KIMIAVI)
Iran        The Hills of Queytariye (Parviz KIMIAVI)
Iran        A Time for Drunken Horses (Bahman GHODADI)
Iran        The Girl in the Sneakers (Rassul SADR-AMELI)

For details see: www.viennale.at

The directors Aoyama Shinji, Hasei Koki, Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Sakaguchi Katsumi
and Tsuchiya Yutaka as well as other guests from Japan are expected to
attend the festival as guests.


Roland Domenig
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Institute for Japanese Studies
University of Vienna
AAKH-Campus, Spitalgasse 2-4
A-1090 Wien, Austria
Tel: +43-1-4277-43817
Fax: +43-1-4277-9438
roland.domenig at univie.ac.at