Retrospective Section

• Kim Jae-Bum
• Korea
• 1997
• 55min

Heo Young, who made films in Japan during the Japanese occupation of Korea including Japanese propagandas during Pacific War, is a forgotten name to Koreans. But he realized nation...

World Cinema

• Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
• Iceland
• 1997
• 85min

Atsushi Hirata, a young employee in a Tokyo fish company, is forced to give up his vacation in Hawaii to perform a memorial service for his parents. The ceremony can only be held a...

World Cinema

• Bille August
• Sweden,Norway,Denmark,Finland,Iceland
• 1997
• 166min

Bill August′s adaptation of Selma Lagerlof′s emigration epic, Jerusalem, is a fateful and magnificent chronicle of love and religious fanaticism. The Ingmarssons have governed t...

Wide Angle

• Zakir Hossain Raju
• Bangladesh,Australia
• 1997
• 52min

In Bangladesh, as in the rest of the world, many young women dream of becoming movie stars. But a woman in Bangladesh is caught in the contradiction of a patriachal Islamic society...

Wide Angle

• Tsuyoshi Shuhama
• Japan
• 1997
• 23min

Every day, a cook fries hundreds of shrimp in 180 centigrade oil. A crawfish at home is his only friend. The irony of his everyday life is depicted in this humorous short.

Wide Angle

• Junko Miura
• 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 t...

Wide Angle

• Cheeng Sawanny
• Cambodia
• 1997
• 30min

This is a documentary about a certain woman, who comes back to her native country, Cambodia, after having lived in a camp in Thailand during the civil war, and then adapts herself ...

World Cinema

• Sally Potter
• UK
• 1997
• 100min

The Tang Lesson is inspired by Sally Porter′s passion for Argentinian tango. The story is set in London, Paris and Buenos Aires. While working on a script for a Hollywood studio, a...

World Cinema

• Robert Altman
• United States
• 1997
• 118min

It′s Kansas City, 1934, the eve of one of "Boss" Tom Pendergast′s violent elections. The city is wide-open in the midst of the Depression, reverberating to the energy of non-stop j...

Retrospective Section

• D.G.Phalke
• India
• 1997
• 4441 ft.

This film depicts Gods in Hindu mythology and has interesting trickshots handtinted in red.