Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1999
• 33min

This is another display of the witty and lively nature of Korean short films, deliciously adapting Vladimir Nabokov′s original story. A man gets a proposition from a stylish devil, that if he′s able to choose an odd number of wom...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 1999
• 79min

Director Lee Ji-Sang, who made a croquis-like first film in Yellow Flower(1998), delves into sexual themes once again. Lacking in the energy for formal destructiveness, A Sudden Crash of Thunder still indulges in a compulsive pur...

Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 1999
• 137min

If Boys From Fengkuei is Hou Hsiao-Hsien′s most spontaneous film, then The Time to Live and The Time to Die is definitely his most personal one to date. It is an autobiographical film about growing up, but does not stop at that. T...

Wide Angle

• India
• 1999
• 15min

This film has no dialogue or commentary, only music and sound effects. A Voyage is a tribute to the renowned Indian writer/film maker M.T. Vasudevan Nair, portraying his boyhood days. The film highlights the universal themes; ag...

World Cinema

• Bulgaria,Germany,Greece
• 1999
• 108min

Albert(Berto) Cohen, an Israeli professor, returns to the city of his birth in Bulgaria to give a lecture and begins a sentimental journey into the past. He runs into his first love, Araxi Wartanyan and they reminisce about their ...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 1999
• 15min

North of Iran: Air of Orangery depicts the particular unity of man and nature in the rural life. A gardener takes care of his orchard and his animals as though they are his children. His monologues throughout the film address pure...

Open Cinema

• Spain
• 1999
• 101min

The night a runs over her son Esteban,Manuela cries until she is completely dry.And far from seeing clearly,the present and the future become mixed up in the same dark cloud.That night,while she waits in the hospital,she reads the...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1999
• 8min

A man walks a tightrope for money to extend his sister′s life, but she wishes for death, tired of fighting disease. One wonders at the significance of his stunt. He once again attempts it, taking a serum capable of ′showing off h...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 1999
• 108min

This masterpiece is also Yu Hyun-mok′s breakthrough film. Through a struggling family living a destitute life, he reveals the difficulties of postwar Korean society. Such is the piercing scream emitted from desperate souls with n...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1999
• 63min

An Alumni Association is a nickname given by the police to fifteen members of a labor and civic. organization arrested in Pusan, one of them being a civil-elected ward chief. They are arrested under the pretense of being spies wo...