World Cinema

• Mexico
• 1999
• 120min

The Colonel waits for his promised pension which has been unfulfilled for years. Friday after Friday, the Colonel waits in his finest suit for the letter announcing the arrival of his pension. Everyone in the town, including himse...

World Cinema

• Austria
• 1999
• 103min

Vienna 1995, Jasmin, Tamara, Valentin, Senad and Roman, five young people from different ethnical and social backgrounds meet in Vienna and for a short time they share their lives and dreams. At the northern edge of Vienna each of...

Closing Film

• China
• 1999
• 100min

Peasant director Zhang Yimou returns to the country. And this time he examines the educational system of rural China through the eyes of a 13 year old substitute teacher. In many ways this film resembles The Story of Qui Ju. But ...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 1999
• 110min

A man commits a coldhearted killing Yet the backdrop to this bloody ′Forty-step Murder′ is a peaceful scene with a passing girl, A group of detectives hide out to trap the brutal criminal, but his lover′s residence is a rustic ap...

Special Programs in Focus

• Thailand
• 1999
• 96min

A peasant farmer leaves his village in Isan (in the arid North-East of Thailand) when his infant son dies for lack of medical treatment; he finds a factory job in Bangkok and is drawn into a strike, little suspecting the manageme...

Wide Angle

• Sweden
• 1999
• 3min

In the dark of the night, when knives are sharp, anything can happen...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1999
• 45min

One Step at a Time begins with an interview of a woman who is chief of a labor union. What started out as a quiet voice gradually changes as a gang of tattooed hoodlums turns the labor union′s assembly into chaos. This is an actu...

New Currents

• Thailand
• 1999
• 110min

Chompoo , Prim, Art, Foon, and Puen are university freshmen. Chompoo starts a diary as the five create a special friendship, avoiding the severe hazing that seniors traditionally inflict on incoming freshmen. They name their part...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 1999
• 119min

Jun Ichigawa has been involved in both films and commercials for years. Contrary to his commercials that are very perceptive of the changing tastes of people, his films depict, in a relaxed manner, traditional things and everyday...

Wide Angle

• France
• 1999
• 57min

▶ Asian Premiere "I have never been back to Korea. I was adopted at the age of four and my horizon is here in France. I remember almost nothing from there. Images and memories are so fragile that at times I doubt in them. And the...