Special Programs in Focus

• Japan
• 1998
• 108min

This is Choi Yang-Il first film, whose All Under the Moon(93) put him in the ranks of New Japanese Cinema. Rock figure Uchida Yuya writes and stars in this true story. A police office lives alone on the 10th floor. Unable to repay...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 1998
• 59min

Hong Meiyu is introduced to her husband by local fisherman. This documentary begins with Hong Meiyu leaving her ancestral home, Kinmen, a seashore village in China, for her marital home on a Taiwanese island. Although Kinmen is vi...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1998
• 50min

This film aims to critique of the kind of reasoning at work within a society which is capable of cruelty and causes individual suffering. The atrocities of an era are detailed in this espose that looks at the two espionage set-ups...

World Cinema

• Italy
• 1998
• 78min

This film can be seen as the sequel to Caro Diaro that brought the best direction award to Nani Moretti at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. Moretti explores present Italian society in this film as the incorporates his own voiceover ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 1998
• 67min

Within the bleak confines of the city, director Iwai Shunji discovers a serene beauty, like cherry blossoms blowing in the wind, which he presents in this contemporary urban fairy tale. The film follows the female protagonist, Uzu...

Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 1998
• 95min

Rakhshan Bani-Eternad is not only the most acclaimed Iranian female filmmakers, but one of top directors of Iranian cinema. Her career began during the 1979 Revolution when her deep commitment to social issues led to her involveme...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 1998
• 97min

Drinking with friends, writing instructions on operating the photo machine for his father and making his last portraits - all are last acts for the terminally ill photographer Jung-Won. In the midst of closing the last chapter of ...

Special Programs in Focus

• China
• 1998
• 158min

Set against the backdrop of post-Tianamen Beijing, Family portrait is an intimate picture of modern day life in urban China. If Bloody Morning is still reminiscent of certain traits common to most fifth generation filmmakers, then...

World Cinema

• France
• 1998
• 100min

Stephane is on a quest to find the Gypsy singer Nora Luca, who sang a song that has haunted him since his childhood. On a cold winter night in Romania he meets up with the Gypsy fiddler, isidor, who is grieving because his sone ha...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1998
• 22min

Shot in Poland, the film raises existential questions about the nature of life and death in a variation of the story of Cain and Abel. Cain takes Abel′s liver from his almost-dead body, which lies in a public execution spot, putti...