A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 1999
• 93min

Set at a time when the Pacific War was coming to an end, this film tells of a sad love story at the time when Japan ruled over Taiwan. The difficult times of Taiwan′s modern history can be read through the trials of a couple. A-J...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 1999
• 124min

Martyr is a screen adaptation of Korean-American Kim Eun-Kuk (Richard Kim)′s novel on the Korean War and religion. As the war was winding down, most civilians felt perplexed, especially for weak individuals who were constantly su...

New Currents

• China
• 1999
• 90min

Despite their feelings, people often suppress their sexual orientation, either due to their own unawareness or due to the moral values of the society they live in. Men and Women argues for the liberation of social oppression agai...

World Cinema

• Denmark,Sweden
• 1999
• 98min

Kresten just got married to the girl of his dreams. A pleasant, carefree life and hopes of becoming a successful businessman in Amsterdam are within his reach. But one day, in the middle of his honeymoon, his dreams become jeopard...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1999
• 58min

′Han-wool-sam′ is an organization of parents whose children were killed in the course of sociopolitical movements. Among their lost children are a son who fought for labor rights and was mysteriously killed, and a daughter who se...

Open Cinema

• Japan
• 1999
• 133min

Providing the grandiose spectacle of war between a human civilization which threatens nature and the outraged divinities(Mononoke),Hayal Miyazaki＇s masterpiece Mononoke Hime became one of the biggest box office successes in Japan,...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1999
• 16min

It′s a hazy morning with pigeons all around. A psychiatrist begins convalescence in therapy with his patients. A young girl subjected to constant sexual abuse, a woman troubled with suicidal tendencies, a boy wanting to kill his ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1999
• 77min

Living with ′ex-comfort women′ for seven years, shooting this film, is not an easy task. But giving personal accounts of the forced rape that was carried out in the name of ′comfort′, that is an extremely difficult task. Reflecti...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand
• 1999
• 100min

Thai cinema at the brink of the 21st century is going through dramatic changes. With only one 1997 film Dang Bireley and Young Gangsters to his profile, newcomer Nonzee Nimibutr′s second film Nang Nak has by far surpassed any oth...

World Cinema

• Germany
• 1999
• 104min

The Pope is in town and the night of his stay is anything but heavenly for some of Berlin′s inhabitants. When the homeless Hanna finds 100 German marks, she and her friend Victor want to splurge it all and spend the night in a hot...