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	Focus The Year 2000 looks particulary auspicious for Asian cinema. Iran, Japan, South Korea and China have been stealing the limelight from the West at the most prestigious film festivals. Each of these new waves has followed its own course. Building on the momentum, a few South American directors are also leaving their mark on the other side of the world. Will new technologies push the movement even further?
	Shooting the Breeze Cub photographers from immigrant backgrounds take an unusually candid look at their troubled neighbourhood on the outskirts of the French city of Mulhouse Photos by the Balalaïka workshop (Jamel Béribèche, Morad Boukhemerra, Samia Chibout, Joël Diorflar, Mestûre Güler, Nadya Kreite), text by Sophie Boukhari, a UNESCO Courier journalist.
	The wonderful world of filmmaking Martín Rejtman, Argentine filmmaker, director of Sylvia Prieto (1999).
	Chernobyl: the political fall-out continues Just how bad was the world’s worst nuclear disaster? The answer lies hidden within a web of politics and scientific uncertainty enmeshing the UN and eastern European governments Fred Pearce, environmental journalist and consultant for the British weekly magazine, The New Scientist
	Belarus: Facing the disaster alone The Chernobyl nuclear disaster continues to threaten the survival of the Belarusian people, says Vasily Nesterenko, a local physicist (Vasily Nesterenko is former director of the Nuclear Energy Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and currently head of the independent Institute of Radiation Safety, Belrad). Interview by Galia Ackerman, of Radio France Internationale.
	The bias behind nomadic education All too often, education has been touted as the key to transforming nomadic identity, which goes a long way towards explaining its patchy record. Saverio Kratli, researcher at the Institute of Development Studies (Sussex).
	School, the Tuaregs’ New Weapon The Tuaregs have shed their longtime reticence towards schooling but questions remain over how the system chooses to deal with their nomadic lifestyle. Countries in sub-Saharan Africa have come up with different solutions Yves Bergeret, french writer and teacher, founder of the Language and Space association specialized in North-South artistic projects.
	U.S. death penalty: victims seize the high ground On the eve of the U.S. presidential elections, the death penalty—repudiated by almost all democratic nations—is notable only for its absence from debate. Abolitionists are changing their tactics to ‘win over’ a majority Ivan Briscoe, UNESCO Courier journalist.
	Moving Africa with a dance rhythm Everyone dances in Africa: from this simple truth, Alphonse Tiérou, a choreographer and researcher from Côte d’Ivoire, fashions his faith in dance’s power to push society onwards. Interview by Jasmina Sopova, UNESCO Courier journalist
	Tell me how you dance and I’ll tell you who you are In Africa, dance and the economy are intrinsically connected: the origins of the dooplé, the first of ten basic movements in African dance, lie in the motion of using the pestle Alphonse Tiérou, Director of the Dooplé resource, teaching and research centre for African creation in Paris
	Digital disappearances Obsolete machines and the ephemeral nature of web-based materials are just some of the hurdles confronting archivists as they struggle to preserve the world’s digital heritage Sara Gould and Marie-Thérèse Varlamoff. Sara Gould is programme officer for the Universal Availability of Publications at IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions). Marie-Thérèse Varlamoff is chief curator at the French National Library and director of the Preservation and Conservation Programme at IFLA.
	Tuenjai Deetes: a bridge to the hill tribes With an iron will and a calm spirit, the activist continues her 25-year struggle with the hill tribes of Thailand for cultural and environmental preservation Interview by Ethirajan Anbarasan, UNESCO Courier journalist.