A Window on Asian Cinema

• Singapore
• 1997
• 100min

Three stories are interwoven in the course of one day in a block of subsidized residential flats. Ah Gu， a middle-aged man， has brought home a pretty young wife from China， whose high expectations of Singapore life lead her to ...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 1997
• 102min

With violence and humor, sex and gamling, seriousness and parody, this film is a text of confusion and violation. The audience is constantly caught by surprise, leaving no room for self-reflection. The two things that the incompet...

New Currents

• Taiwan
• 1997
• 102min

This is a story about love and death. One day， two lovers meet to commit suicide together. The man survives， and in fear of being accused of murder， he goes out to buy more sleeping pills. Therein begins this story intertwined ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 1997
• 73min

Recent Iranian cinema is notable for experimenting with new ways of storytelling. Mohsen Makhamalbaf used an absolutely new and complicated storytelling method in Moment of Innocence (made in same year as Gabbeh) through dismantli...

Retrospective Section

• Hong Kong
• 1997
• 98min

Set among the idyllic red and orange leaves of New York， Cheun Yuen-ting spins a warm fairytale about the unusual real-life adventures of his good friend “Boat Head.” Boat Head falls for a girl whose behavior and lifestyle are co...

Retrospective Section

• Hong Kong
• 1997
• 98min

Ann Hui’s autobiographical film. Hueyin returns to Hong Kong from England for her sister’s marriage. As she slowly opens up to her mother and starts to learn about her past， Hueyin begins to understand her mother

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 1997
• 95min

The Mirror starts with the simple story of Mina, a little girl who has lost her way home from school. Our filmic expectations are challenged when the film changes midway from fiction to documentary. The shooting of the second half...

Retrospective Section

• Korea
• 1997
• 1min

The recording of Seoul circa 1940， featuring shots of Seoul Station and City Hall. Also shown are people engaged in their everyday activities， such as street merchants.

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 1997
• 53min

A personal documentary about the filmmaker’s 92 year-old grandmother. Takako Miura is 92 year-old and has lived alone since her husband died six years ago. She regards herself as the president of a radio station and is the announc...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1997
• 36min

This film speculates on the questions of life， and is a daydream of the road. The boundary line between is the marvelous discordance of a hymn with narrative. We either laugh or feel serious， and the contradictions of the film ...