New Currents

• Satoki Kemmochi
• Japan
• 1997
• 118min

Kono is from a small town who came to Tokyo with big dreams. Takase is quitting his delivery job to join Kono in dealing drugs. Takase introduces Kono to Nanae， an illustrator als...

New Currents

• Shinobu Yaguchi
• Japan
• 1996
• 83min

A young woman bank teller passionately in love with money becomes a local hero after being taken hostage by bank robbers. Her efforts to locate the money abandoned by the now dead ...

World Cinema

• Martin Sˇulík
• SlovakRepublic
• 1997
• 105min

Tereza， a sixteen year old girl， is highly imaginative and spontaneously playful. One day she has to leave the institution where she learned to be a seamstress. She loses her fee...

Korean Panorama

• CHANG Yoon-hyun
• Korea
• 1997
• 105min

Alienation seems to be the key word for relationships in the 90s.The irony is that the expectation towards technology＇s ability to somehow mend this＂problem＂has become another way ...

World Cinema

• Abel Ferrara
• United States
• 1996
• 99min

22-year-old Mafioso Johnny Tempio looks like a movie star as he comes swaggering out of the latest Humphrey Bogart picture. But Johnny

Wide Angle

• Cho Beom-Koo
• Korea
• 1996
• 22min

Woo-Hyuk has just been discharged from the military and is planning to go back to school. His schoolmate， Ju-Young is still jobless after graduation. The two seek an opportunity f...

World Cinema

• Jean-Pierre Dardenne,Luc Dardenne
• Belgium,France,Luxembourg
• 1996
• 93min

The adolescent Igor helps his father， Roger， run an illegal immigrant labor ring in Belgium. He loses his innocence when Roger leaves Hamidou， an African immigrant， to die afte...

Retrospective Section

• Unknown
• Korea
• 1938
• 6min

Livestock competition in 1938 showing the variety of animals and the award ceremony.

A Window on Asian Cinema

• KAWASE Naomi
• Japan
• 1996
• 95min

In a foresty village suffering from economic recession and decreasing population， people have put their hopes for a better future in the promise that the railroad will soon be com...

New Currents

• Fruit CHAN
• Hong Kong
• 1997
• 100min

In Hong Kong, an industrialized and ultramodern city, youngsters do not take life seriously, the conditions of education and family is pernicious, values are disregarded, and alien...