Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1999
• 27min

A man finds love from a woman, and she dreams the extrication through him. Appearances of the world reflected in their eyes can be experienced through Im Chang-Jae′s [Aqua Requiem] with its diversified experimental images. The f...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 1999
• 108min

Her love: Choon-Hee is a wedding videographer who has a crush on In-Gong, a tidy aide she often runs into at weddings. His love: Chul-Su is on leave from military service trying desperately to stop his ex-girlfriend from marrying...

New Currents

• Japan
• 1999
• 122min

Sixty-four-year old Mano, retired after serving 40 years as a firefighter, is a lonely old man. His wife has been admitted to a psychiatric ward, his son is separated from his wife and addicted to gambling, and several of his fri...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 1999
• 95min

In one′s ordinary life, absurdity and madness are always latent, seeking a moment to burst out. This informs Kiyoshi Kurosawa′s idea of ′abnormality in everyday life′. With its theme of ′eternal love′, Barren Illusion portrays th...

World Cinema

• France
• 1999
• 90min

A forgotten platoon from the Foreign Legion, abandoned somewhere in the Gulf of Djbouti. The remains of a ghost armed force which plays war games and repairs the roads. In Marseilles, the ex-warrant officer Galoup recalls the good...

Wide Angle

• Pakistan
• 1999
• 19min

Four different episodes show how various women assert their suppressed desires through the emotional and physical masks forced upon them. Some episodes capture the subtle tensions of the disintegration of friendship between two wo...

World Cinema

• Switzerland,Germany,Austria
• 1999
• 108min

This black comedy tells the story of Irina, a beautiful young Russian who ends up a call girl in "a fairy tale land"in the Alps. Irina finds that her services are in demand in the world of business, politics, the military and the ...

Open Cinema

• Italy,United States
• 1999
• 92min

A love story set in the contrasting climates of politically-charged Africa and the tranquil confines of an enchanting Roman villa. A man and a woman caught between love and loyalty form the emotional core of this intimate drama. S...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand
• 1999
• 110min

Lop Lamnarai, Nid Watsong, and Suan Sapaya work as gunmen and bodyguards to a tycoon named Big Loh. Each of them has his own unique character. Nid enjoys drugs and often tortures his victims. Suan is obsessed with betting on hors...

Wide Angle

• France,Germany
• 1999
• 88min

Beyond the Forest invites us to a very strange village; Tasavlu, a small Turkish village. There is nothing special happening here. Nomads from Central Asia came here long ago, and now they have lost their identities. But, old Hay...