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...

New Currents

• Korea
• 1999
• 94min

Korean cinema of the late 1990′s often transposes our uncertain present into the past, seeking to discover its link to our everyday life. Based on a novel by Choi In-Ho, Black Hole also stares back into the past, attempting to fi...

New Currents

• China
• 1999
• 90min

Despite their feelings, people often suppress their sexual orientation, either due to their own unawareness or due to the moral values of the society they live in. Men and Women argues for the liberation of social oppression agai...

New Currents

• India
• 1999
• 60min

Happy death to all! This event which absurdly transforms a falsely-charged death into a happy execution for the sake of politics is a most biting parody on the political process. Set in a small village in Kerala, Southern India. ...

New Currents

• Korea
• 1999
• 106min

As the film starts, something familiar flashes across the screen: Denis Lavant′s riveting scene from Leos Carax′s Bad Blood. As Jeon Soo-ll previously revealed, his infatuation with Leos Carax′s work resulted in the birth of ′ima...

New Currents

• Indonesia
• 1999
• 102min

Sri is a young girl from a coastal village married to an old Javanese nobleman, Hendro. Sri is still but Hendro is in his seventies. They have a child, Aji, and live in a traditional Javanese house young in present-day Solo (Cent...

New Currents

• Taiwan
• 1999
• 52min

Taiwan, an island too small to carry such pain. Director Cheng Wen-Tang tells the sad story of the natives, long hidden in the shadows of Taiwan′s modern history. He comes to understand the natives′ pain through the social activi...

New Currents

• Japan
• 1999
• 95min

The ′other′ always speaks in a strange language. It is only when the meaning penetrates our heart that we respond to each other′s voices. It is this moment that signals the start of empathy. In this the Japanese film, Timless Mel...

New Currents

• Hong Kong,China
• 1999
• 109min

It is 1997, after the handover. Hong-Kong may still be a land of opportunity for mainland Chinese yet for many it remains a place of hardship. For the talented cinemtographer Yu Lik Wai, Love WilI Tear Us Apart may as well be a c...

New Currents

• SriLanka
• 1999
• 72min

A film about a love affair between a widower and a married woman leads us to expect a bittersweet or tragic romance. Director Linton Semage may not actually stray from this typical plot in The Outcast, however it turns out that t...