Korean Panorama

• Jang Sun-Woo
• Korea
• 1997
• 120min

With its claims for disregarding norms and principles, the social context which this film depicts raised both controversy and appraisal among Korean viewers. Film critic Kang Han-S...

World Cinema

• Manuel Poirier
• France
• 1997
• 135min

"I wanted to shoot the story of Paco and Nino in Brittany and in cinemascope. The idea behind this film had been in my mind for some years. Two young strangers, very different from...

Wide Angle

• SONG Il-gon
• Korea
• 1996
• 8min

Made by students of the Poland Public Circus Institute, this film captures the abstract and geometrical movement of objects. The camera focuses on life behind rather than on the st...

Wide Angle

• Raman Hui
• Hong Kong
• 1995
• 5min

Sleepy Guy was so happy to meet the girl of his dreams. He tried his best to make the evening memorable and magical... But it wasn’t easy for him. He finally overcome all obstacles...

Wide Angle

• Qian Jia Jun,Te Wei
• China
• 1963
• 20min

A masterpiece of water ink animation that scents the landscape of sentiment. It describes a cowboy′s midday dream with picturesque lyricism.

Retrospective Section

• Ann Hui
• Taiwan
• 1997
• 59min

Director Ann Hui and her friends talk of growing up in Hong Kong -- deciding whether to identify with Chinese or English culture, or choosing between the cultural revolution or the...

Retrospective Section

• P.V.Rao
• India
• 1931
• 7915 ft.

This film recounts the life of Marthanda Varma, the legendary founder of Travancore State and is the lone survivor of the relatively small but significant south Indian film industr...

Wide Angle

• Naseemulah Rashid,Uxi Mufti,Ko Chang Soo
• Korea
• 1996
• 17min

Oblivion is like turning your eyes towards eternity / in the midst of fantasy / as a storm can’t be met in the middle of a hurricane / we can’t feel existence-- Borrowing from the ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• WONG Kar Wai
• Hong Kong
• 1997
• 95min

Far out ahead of his numerous imitators, Wong Kar-Wai is pushing forward into new directions and setting himself new challenges. Almost all of Happy Together was shot in Buenos Air...

Korean Panorama

• Yoon In-Ho
• Korea
• 1997
• 96min

This film is an examination of the situations in life overlooked by pointing the camera at the daily lives of foreigners and those alienated from society. Khan and Jacky are ill...