Special Programs in Focus

• China
• 1999
• 80min

Dong (′Winter′) and Chun (′Spring′) are a couple on the verge of splitting up. Their life together has settled into a routine of passionless moments. Both are nominally teachers in the art college from which they graduated, but t...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1999
• 22min25sec

A woman has a daydream, having exhausted from caring for her sick husband. In it, she sees her own portrait hanging by the table of oestral rites as she visits a house to feast on sacrificial meal. It′s a mystical fantasy as if ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 1999
• 126min

World Cinema

• Canada
• 1999
• 106min

The Five Senses is a poignant drama pivoting around the five senses touch, taste, hearing, smell, and vision. The film′s characters are each searching for a significant and intimate human connection. The story takes place over an ...

World Cinema

• Spain
• 1999
• 121min

The year is 1938, in the heart of the Civil War in Spain. As one of the many collaborations between General Franco and Adolf Hitler, Germany invites a group of filmmakers to shoot two versions, one in German and the other in Engli...

World Cinema

• France
• 1999
• 90min

A night on a Parisian bridge. A young woman, eyes filled with tears, climbs over a fence to jump into the Seine river. From behind, she suddenly hears someone say. "It looks as if you wished to do something improper."This is how t...

Special Programs in Focus

• Japan
• 1999
• 60min

Operatic tenor and conceptual musician Yuri Obitani made one of the most spectacular debuts ever in Japanese independent film with The Hair Opera. It opens with Obitani himself casting about for ways to entertain the viewer when ...

Wide Angle

• NewZealand
• 1999
• 12.3min

Dean and Jenny arrive in the middle of nowhere and begin digging and drilling a large well. Whatever it is they expect to find is not there, the well is dry. Dean, an already angry man by nature, is far from happy. He is equally ...

World Cinema

• Portugal
• 1999
• 107min

Mademoiselle de Chartres had a first heart breaking experience : She was abandoned by a youth who wanted to have a somewhat open relationship with her. One night, a friend of her mother′s, Madame Silva introduces her to a widely-r...

World Cinema

• Argentina,Spain
• 1999
• 109min

A car crashes and we see the bodies of a family of five where the teenage daughter Carmela and her little sister Aneta are the only ones who survive. The story covers ten years in the lives of the two sisters. Carmela, who has bee...