Rochester Premiere Tsai Ming-liang’s cinema of loneliness and isolation (Rebels of the Neon God, Goodbye, Dragon Inn) was identified by the French miniseries 2000 Seen by…, which told stories of the approaching millennium from ten different directors in ten different countries.

Labor Film Series For four days in late 1999, ministers of 135 countries convened in Seattle Washington for multilateral trade negotiations of the World Trade Organization. Across those same four days, more than 40,000 people converged on the downtown site in an effort to protest the WTO and its impacts on the environment, human rights, and labor in what became the largest protests against economic globalization the U.S. had ever seen.

Louis Chavez, assistant curator, will lead a tour of the Collection Gallery to discuss the photographs on view in Selections from the Collection. Chavez will share information about how the works selected for this exhibition are connected, whether that be through familial legacies or creative mentorship.

Filmi Fest 2000 Based on the life of the ancient warrior king, Shah Rukh Khan teams with Kareena Kapoor for the first time in this historical action epic.

Native American Cinematic Heritage Selected as the best Canadian film of all time by critics and filmmakers in 2015, this adventure epic adapts an Inuit legend to the big screen, earning the Camera d’Or at Cannes for the best first feature film.