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• Festival Period : October 10-18, 1997
• Films screened : 163 films from 33 countries
• Invited guests : 450 guests from 30 countries
• Total audiences : 170,206 (paid audiences: 143,420)
• Hand Printing
  Wayne Wang (Director/China), Jeremy Irons, Actor(England), Xie Jin (Director/China), Kitano Takeshi(Director/Japan), Abbas Kiarostami (Director/Iran), Kim Ki-Young (Director/Korea)

Asian Film Market

• Market Badge : 1,737 participants and 911 companies from 54 countries
• Sales Booths : 73 sales booths from 171 companies of 23 countries
• Market Screening : 69 screenings of 64 films from 11 countries and 37 companies (38 Market Premieres)

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.