World Cinema

• Switzerland
• 1999
• 91min

At night, in his studio perched high above the lights of New York, Bill Diamond, a famous photographer, invents stories and fairy tales, to chase away the evil spirits his memories keep bringing back. One of these stories is about...

New Currents

• Korea
• 1999
• 94min

Korean cinema of the late 1990′s often transposes our uncertain present into the past, seeking to discover its link to our everyday life. Based on a novel by Choi In-Ho, Black Hole also stares back into the past, attempting to fi...

Special Programs in Focus

• Japan
• 1999
• 57min

One day, while wondering what kind of film he should be making, Go Riju befriends the driver of a newspaper-delivery truck. The man is rather recalcitrant, a bit of a loner, but Riju pressures him into agreeing to become the subj...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 1999
• 54min

Chung tells the story of one Korean immigrant boy growing up in Japan. Tesong, the main character, goes to a high school for Korean immigrants. His baseball team qualifies to participate in Japan′s official tournament for the firs...

World Cinema

• Morocco
• 1999
• 90min

This film is a tribute to the last fairground entertainers: musicians, dancers, storytellers, animal trainers, jugglers, performers and troubadours, and to all the popular artists of the streets and public squares. Rabii is a youn...

World Cinema

• Russia
• 1999
• 85min

A war drama set in present day North Caucasus. During a routine raid the soldiers become witnesses of a tragic incident. While an investigation is being carried out, the soldiers are isolated at a certain checkpoint, where an enem...

Special Programs in Focus

• India
• 1999
• 122min

Calcutta of the 1950s. Turned into refugees by the partition of Bengal after independence in 1951, a middle class family lives a precarious existence. The eldest daughter, Nita, is the only real breadwinner. Her elder brother, Sha...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Vietnam
• 1999
• 90min

What was one to do after the war? In this film, post-war Vietnam is not revealed to us through any particular event. Instead, director Viet Linh captures the situation through the shared destiny of a hotel-turned-flat and Tham, t...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1999
• 9min

Everyone has their own piece of music. Whether to choose a simple monotonous scale or a convention- defying extempore is all up to each individual. Composed chooses the latter. A man with an extreme obsessive-compulsive nature fi...

World Cinema

• United States
• 1999
• 118min

Jewel Mae Cookie Orcutt is an eccentric matriarch whose tattered ante-bellum home in Holly Springs, Mississippi, is adorned with mementos of her deceased husband. Flouting convention, Cookie shares the manor with Willis Richland, ...