Special Programs in Focus

• India
• 1999
• 115min

A village in bengal, 1910. Harihar is a priest who barely earns enough for his wife Sarbojaya, six year old daughter Durga, and little son Apu,and the old aunt who lives with them. He is a poet and a dreamer who is often away from...

World Cinema

• Germany
• 1999
• 98min

Walter used to be somebody, somebody with power and purpose, somebody driven by his conscience to do good and now, society tells him he′s no longer needed. In his mid-fifties, trapped in a childless marriage, his only refuge is an...

Wide Angle

• Ireland
• 1999
• 19min

Twelve-year old Tommy is unlike any other kid in town. He? habitually fixated on patterns - black and white tiled floors, a football, water spiraling down a drain - but any little disruption puts him in total disarray. His spontan...

Opening Film

• Korea
• 1999
• 135min

This year′s festival headlines the celebration of Asian cinema, with Korean entry [Peppermint Candy] as its curtain raiser. Lee Chang-dong, whose acclaimed [Green Fish] exposed essence of Korean society, display the process of rec...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 1999
• 103min

Phantom, The Submarine features an assumption and a concern. Having received the code name 431, Lee Chan-Suk joins the crew of Korea′s first nuclear submarine, named ′Phantom′. For the crew members with erased pasts, ′Phantom′ is...

Wide Angle

• Russia
• 1999
• 10min

The revitalized Egyptian frescoes tell about the everlasting relationship of Man and Women in a funny, erotic, philosophical, artistic and ironic way. Viewers witness a new genre being born, which combines the elements of cinema,...

Wide Angle

• Poland
• 1999
• 78min

In 1987, in a Viennese antique shop, a few hundred colour slides from World War II were found. As it turns out, they had been made in the Lodz Ghetto by the Ghetto′s chief accountant Walter Genewein. The picture of Ghetto life co...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 1999
• 112min

This sad, beautiful, and deeply moving film allows us to appreciate the transience of life, by portraying the affection between a dead daughter and her living father. Otomatsu is a stationmaster in a remote town called Horomai in...

New Currents

• Taiwan
• 1999
• 52min

Taiwan, an island too small to carry such pain. Director Cheng Wen-Tang tells the sad story of the natives, long hidden in the shadows of Taiwan′s modern history. He comes to understand the natives′ pain through the social activi...

World Cinema

• Czech Republic
• 1999
• 79min

Prague Stories is a film about relationships and love seen from four different perspectives. The punctuation of four full stops in the film′s title represents the film′s four directors: Vladimir Michalek, Michaela Pavlatova, Marti...