Overview
- Festival Period
- Oct 10 (Fri) - 18 (Sat), 1997
- Selections
- 163 films from 33 countries
- Invited guests
- 450 guests from 30 countries
- Total Attendance
- 170,206 (paid audiences: 143,420)
- Hand Printing
- WANG Wayne (China | Director), Jeremy IRONS (England | Actor), XIE Jin (China | Director), KITANO Takeshi (Japan | Director), Abbas KIAROSTAMI (Iran | Director), KIM Ki-young (Korea | Director)
Accomplishments
After the successful 1st PIFF in both artistic and popular means, the 2nd PIFF was aimed toward becoming the stepping-stone for the development and growth. PIFF aimed at becoming the main stage in introducing Asian films and, at the same time, serve the role of forum in discussing the future of Asian cinema and presenting its vision.
