Wide Angle

• China
• 1999
• 90min

This feature-length documentary is by Zhang Yuan, a key leader of the ′Tiananmen Generation′ and the establishment of a world-wide reputation for Chinese cinema. Zhang′s latest effort employs the direct cinema format following Li...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 1999
• 109min

This is a tale of two generations of a family that lived during the Japanese colonization era. We see the loves and tragedies of a girl with a modern education, her three sisters with problems of their own, a self-sacrificing mot...

World Cinema

• Germany
• 1999
• 80min

Can works as a dealer for the drug boss Hakan. Can is a small time dealer so he has difficulty providing for his girlfriend Jale and their daughter Meral. They live in Schoneberg, a poverty-stricken Turkish neighborhood in Berlin....

Wide Angle

• UK
• 1999
• 3min

A man goes for a stroll along a beach and discovers an eclair. He tears open the packaging, takes a bite…and discovers that eclair is not at all pleased…

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1999
• 14min

Dreary lives forced upon us , miscommunication, the pain caused by silence or indifference... Disillusion embraces the screen in an artificially formal manner found in British cinema, carefully presenting the weariness of daily l...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 1999
• 80min

Opening in the Family Law Courts, central Tehran, women here want divorces for various reasons. Their husbands are impotent, distrustful without explanation. restrictive, deceitful or violent. The film clearly shows what stands be...

Wide Angle

• France
• 1999
• 88min

This film is a dive into the infinitely small, a night district of tiny bars lost in Tokyo, zooming in en the lives of four characters: Tanko-san, a bar owner in her fifties, Oba-san, 78, Miyuki, a 50-year-old transvestite, and A...

Open Cinema

• France
• 1999
• 121min

In June 1946, Stalin launched a major propaganda drive aimed at Russian who had emigrated to the west.Lured by amnesty,a Soviet passport and the opportunity to take part in the post-war reconstruction of the USSR,many,including A...

World Cinema

• Italy
• 1999
• 93min

The film chronicles the melancholy journey of two celebrity look-alikes chasing their dream of la dolce vita in Italy. Romanian Marilyn Monroe impersonator Ileana and Bulgarian Elvis double Nicolaj win a look-alike contest in Buch...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1999
• 18min

′Eraser wrestling′ in elementary school represents a small-scale power struggle. Even with established rules, the stronger one writes new rules every time. To the eyes of Yong-Hoon, who loses his eraser even if he wins, tyrant Kw...