A Window on Asian Cinema

• Shu Kei
• Hong Kong
• 1996
• 110min

＂Coming out ＂ takes different forms depending on the culture. A Queer Story illustrates the situations of gays in Hong Kong and China. the story focuses on the love between middle-...

Open Cinema

• Kwak Kyung-Taek
• Korea
• 1997
• 83min

A place where naked bodies might without shame,public bath houses represent true Korean sentiments. Both houses used to be the place where teenager satisfied their curiosities, the...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Ko I-Cheng
• Taiwan
• 1997
• 99min

There is usually one full moon every month. In those rare months with two, the second one is called the "Blue Moon." The saying goes that if you wish on a blue moon, you′ll given a...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Mohsen Makhmalbaf
• Iran
• 1996
• 73min

Recent Iranian cinema is notable for experimenting with new ways of storytelling. Mohsen Makhamalbaf used an absolutely new and complicated storytelling method in Moment of Innocen...

Retrospective Section

• Cheng Bugao
• China
• 1933
• 94min

1930s Chinese cinema established a tradition of realism of which The Spring Silkworms is a representative work. Depictions of the urban poor and impoverished rural areas reveal the...

World Cinema

• Arturo Ripstein
• Mexico,France,Spain
• 1996
• 114min

Coral, a buxom young nurse who raises her two children along is a fan of French actor Charles Boyer. In order to make fun of her chubbiness and her corny personality, her colleague...

Retrospective Section

• KIM Ki-Young
• Korea
• 1982
• 115min

A trademark of Kim Ki-Young′s career is a series of films that are variations of the same storyline. The housemaid series includes the films The Housemaid, The Woman of Fire, and T...

World Cinema

• Terry George
• UK
• 1996
• 111min

In 1981, twenty-one Irish mothers faced the dilemma of watching their sons starve themselves to death for their political beliefs. Some Mother′s Son tells the story of two such mot...

World Cinema

• Alex Van WARMERDAM
• the Netherlands
• 1996
• 103min

The story starts with Cremer, a stylist of deviant sexuality, who designs a floral pattern on a blue background. When Loohman, owner of a textile factory, decides to produce the fa...

Open Cinema

• Brett Ratner
• United States
• 1997
• 100min

Money Talks is a non-stop, action-adventure film by comedy. Franklin Hatchett is a petty con artist catapulted from obscurity to celebrity overnight when he is wrongly accused of p...