Wide Angle

• Japan
• 1999
• 24min

1001 Nights is a visually rich animated tale of two people in a desperate search for love. Prince Kamaal and Princess Budu are two lonely people brought together by their respective fairies, Mamune and Derrish. In a dreamlike wor...

Special Programs in Focus

• Vietnam
• 1999
• 95min

Like most countries that lived through the tragedy of war, Vietnam too has made numerous films dealing with the pains of war. Among the list, Dang Nhat Minh′s When the Tenth Month Comes is regarded as one of best films on this sub...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 1999
• 90min

Liu Li and Xiao Hong are stepsisters. They go to the same high school and sleep in the same room. Both are pretty, but there is intense rivalry between the two. Liu Li spends time with boys, but Xiao Hong, who works hard at her s...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1999
• 17min

On October 26th, 1979, the nation′s dictator is gone but in a small family, an eldest sister gets the absolute power as the next dictator two days later. Her money and power is relegated to the next sister, who wants to seek plea...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1999
• 92min

i′s the summer of 1998. Clouds hang over Hyundai Motors Company′s Ulsan Plant Ddomestic slump in the wake of the economic crisis, combined with shrinkage in the world to market, the leading enterprise in the Korean auto industry i...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 1999
• 67min

2H starts on a subway train that runs into an accident. The film then follows an image of the lean hand of an old man over ninety. Director, Li Ying tries to talk to us through the image of the old man who can meet death anytime....

World Cinema

• France
• 1999
• 110min

Late August, Early September relates events from late August one year until early September the next. It runs from the breakdown in Gabriel and Jenny′s relationship, despite the affection that continues to bind them, to the affir...

New Currents

• Japan
• 1999
• 122min

Sixty-four-year old Mano, retired after serving 40 years as a firefighter, is a lonely old man. His wife has been admitted to a psychiatric ward, his son is separated from his wife and addicted to gambling, and several of his fri...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 1999
• 95min

In one′s ordinary life, absurdity and madness are always latent, seeking a moment to burst out. This informs Kiyoshi Kurosawa′s idea of ′abnormality in everyday life′. With its theme of ′eternal love′, Barren Illusion portrays th...

World Cinema

• Morocco
• 1999
• 90min

This film is a tribute to the last fairground entertainers: musicians, dancers, storytellers, animal trainers, jugglers, performers and troubadours, and to all the popular artists of the streets and public squares. Rabii is a youn...