Wide Angle

• Dana Ranga
• Germany
• 1997
• 77min

Focusing on films from the former Soviet Union, the former German Democratic Republic, and the former socialist republics of Czechoslovakia, Romania, Poland and Bulgaria.this progr...

Wide Angle

• Byun Young-joo
• Korea
• 1997
• 70min

Conntinuing the saga of the women at the "House of Sharing," the film shifts location to Kwangju in Kyonggi Province. Sadness still prevails but life in the country provides these ...

Wide Angle

• Jose Araujo
• Brazil
• 1997
• 96min

Landscapes of Memory portrays the lives and mystical visions of the inhabitants of the Sertao (arid backlands) of Northeastern Brazil. Life for the Sertanejo is transformed into a ...

Wide Angle

• Ulrike Koch
• Germany,Switzerland
• 1997
• 110min

Since time immemorial, the nomadic herdsmen of northern Tibet have lived in an extremely harsh environment on the high plateau of the Himalayas, pasturing their yakes in the highes...

Wide Angle

• Olivier Assayas
• Taiwan
• 1997
• 92min

After all, Hou Hsiao-Hsien is first and foremost a Chinese filmmaker. This obvious statement is an affirmation in itself in the sense that. contrary to filmmakers of his generation...

Wide Angle

• Gunnar BERGDAHL
• Sweden
• 1997
• 87min

The Voice of Bergman is a long conversation where Bergman talks about his relation to the art of film, the music of film and his enchantment with the close-up. He expresses his pas...

Wide Angle

• Yoshio Kuroda
• Japan
• 1997
• 104min

Based on Louis de la Lamer′s fairy tale, this Japanese animation of Dog of Flanders is directed by Yoshio Kuroda who also made the popular television series of the story in the 197...

World Cinema

• Ademir Kenovi‘c
• Bosnia and Herzegovina,France
• 1997
• 110min

Adis and Kerim, two young boys, seven and nine years old, have found refuge in Hamza′s place, a poet whose wife and daughter have left Srajevo. Adis and his brother have lost their...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Abbas KIAROSTAMI
• Iran
• 1997
• 95min

Abbas Kiarostami puts his alter-ego, Badii on the road again as he did to Ahmad, farhad, and Hossein in his previous films. In Taste of Cherry, Kiarostami looks for the meaning of ...

Wide Angle

• Yan San Chun,Te Wei,Ma Ke Xuan
• China
• 1997
• 20min

A water-ink animation about the affection between two people with a warm and mystical narrative style. An old sick musician who teaches music to a young fisherman after receiving h...