Wide Angle

• Byun Hyuk
• France
• 1997
• 24min

Life of a homeless told in frank, honest manner. We are introduced to Bruno, a part-time painter by day and a beggar by night who spends his nights at Gare de l′Est.

Wide Angle

• Marjut Rimminen
• UK
• 1997
• 8.23min

A ghost-like little girl keeps tapping on a woman’s consciousness, demanding attention and recalling traumatic childhood events, distorting the woman’s experience of the present. T...

Wide Angle

• Byun Hyuk
• France
• 1997
• 50min

Three women, best friends since high school now all pursuing different careers, meet up at a small cafe near Paris for the first time in a while. As their conversations begin, what...

Wide Angle

• Fumiko Uchida
• Japan
• 1997
• 14min

One morning, a man woke up, and found a bud growing from the top of his head. He made a hat to protect it as it grew, and it grew day by day. No dialogues.

Wide Angle

• Cheek
• Singapore
• 1997
• 5.59min

Beansprout and Salted Fiah is a story about the unintentional lies and unthinking acts that growth ups inflict upon children and the sad humor of the consequences.

New Currents

• Malay Bhattacharya
• India
• 1997
• 105min

Fiction is a self-described "existential adventure meandering through a landscape of remembrance, nostalgia, daydream and staggering reality." One day Rajat conceives a plan to kid...

World Cinema

• Udayan Prasad
• UK
• 1997
• 102min

From the moment that Amir arrives illegally in England from Pakistan, packed in a vegetable crate, nothing is as he expected. Instead of streets paved with gold, he finds himself h...

Wide Angle

• Nan Triveni Achnas
• Indonesia
• 1997
• 24min

This documentary tells the story of ten year-old Kabri Wali, performer in the Gayo traditional form of sung poetry called ‘didong’ in Indonesia. He comes from a family of ‘didong’ ...

Wide Angle

• Arvind Sinha
• India
• 1997
• 28min

Ajit is an eight year old child labourer in a calcurra. He is one of the nine children of Muneswar, a landless farmer in North Bihar. In spite of bad conditions, Ajit is steeped in...

Wide Angle

• Duan Jinchuan
• China
• 1997
• 103min

No. 16 Barkhor South Street is a breakthrough Chinese film for many reasons. A stunning documentary about a neighborhood committee in the heart of Lhasa, it won the Grand Prix at t...