Wide Angle

• WHANG Cheol-Mean
• Germany
• 1997
• 88min

Berlin six years after the fall of the wall. The city as a permanent building site has long lost its symbolic power to suggest coming prosperity. People out of work and homeless be...

Retrospective Section

• Makino Shozo
• Japan
• 1910
• 76min

Makino Shozo is called the father of Japanese cinema. He worked as a director, producer, and creator in the developing period of Japanese cinema. Shozo revitalized the Kyoto period...

Wide Angle

• Park Ki Hyung
• Korea
• 1996
• 36min

This film speculates on the questions of life， and is a daydream of the road. The boundary line between is the marvelous discordance of a hymn with narrative. We either laugh or ...

World Cinema

• Mike Leigh
• UK
• 1997
• 90min

Two old roommates get together after a long period apart and reminisce about the good old days. Through a series of flashbacks we see the women as they were in the mid‘80s when the...

Open Cinema

• Derek Chiu
• Hong Kong
• 1997
• 104min

Mr. Gum， the head of a sinister gang， regularly makes confession with the young priest Lee， and then commits crimes again. When Lee goes to meet Gum in prison， he meets the pro...

Wide Angle

• Qian Yun,Ma Ke Quang
• China
• 1992
• 10min

An interesting cartoon animation about a game played to guess how twelve mosquitoes can bite five men.

Retrospective Section

• D.G.Phalke
• India
• 1926
• 566ft

Drawn from one of the great treasuries of Hindu myth， the Vishnu Purana， this film tells the story of Prahlad’s unflinching devotion to the God Vishnu.

Retrospective Section

• CHING Siu Tung, Tony
• Hong Kong
• 1987
• 93min

An debt-collector stays the night in a haunted temple. He meets a ghost-busting Daoist eccentric who warns him about ghosts and demons. Sure enough， Cheng falls under the wiles of...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Wang Shaudi
• Taiwan
• 1997
• 114min

This second film by director Wang Shaudi (Accidental Legend screened at last year′s PIFF) is a black comedy which satirizes the claustrophobic lives of city residents. The film′s f...

Retrospective Section

• JUNG Ji-young
• Korea
• 1997
• 120min

Police detective Segun specializes in chasing womem. Discontent with her marriage， Eun-Young dreams of the freedom to open her inner desires. The two fall instantly in love， brin...