Wide Angle

• Hsu Hsiao-Ming
• Taiwan
• 1997
• 85min

In 1993， the Taiwanese government opened its labor markets to foreign workers， leading to an influx of laborers from Southeast Asia. The narratives of the foreign workers tell us...

World Cinema

• Alexei Balabanov
• Russia
• 1997
• 96min

Danila Bagrov returns to his native town after two years in the Army. But life in the Russian provinces no longer suits him and he decides to move to St. Petersburg where his elder...

Closing Film

• Ann Hui
• Hong Kong
• 1997
• 125min

EIGHTEEN SPRINGS is a sumptuous period film with epic yet personal touches, and is perhaps Ann Hui′s most accomplished film to date. Set in Shanghai in the 30s, the film is based o...

New Currents

• Farhad Mehranfar
• Iran
• 1997
• 90min

A father-son team travel into the wilds of northern Iran to screen 16mm films for the local inhabitants in this moody and beautiful portrait of village life. The marriage of a relu...

Wide Angle

• Zhou Ke Qiu
• China
• 1981
• 10min

A paper cut animasiopn about a hurd of silly monkey making trouble as fish the moon from the pool

Wide Angle

• Kim Sung Soo
• Korea
• 1996
• 14min

In a labyrinth-like underground passage， a series of events take place. Black and white images and minimal sound represent the alienated state of this underground site. This is a ...

Retrospective Section

• Unknown
• Korea
• 1920
• 6min

A traditional Korean mask dance which originated during the Koryo Dynasty.

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Eric KHOO
• Singapore
• 1997
• 100min

Three stories are interwoven in the course of one day in a block of subsidized residential flats. Ah Gu， a middle-aged man， has brought home a pretty young wife from China， whos...

Retrospective Section

• Heo Young
• Indonesia
• 1951
• 70min

Called Hu Yung in the Indonesian film world， the Korean Heo Young went to Indonesia in 1942 with the Japanese army， and remained to work for the film industry.there. Heo Young wo...

Retrospective Section

• KIM Ki-Young
• Korea
• 1979
• 110min

After Professor Lee suffers a nervous breakdown, he is admitted into a mental institution. Most of the patients there suffer from extra-marital affairs gone sour. Upon hearing the ...