Wide Angle

• Switzerland,France,Senegal
• 1999
• 45min

For a very long time, the hawkers who sold newspapers on the streets of Dakar were, without exception, all boys. But, this morning, their domination was challenged. What happened? Sili - for this is what the girl is called - is b...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong,China
• 1999
• 128min

Splendid fireworks lit up the skies of Hong Kong in 1997. Fruit Chan′s The Longest Summer is a story of the misfits of society who felt confusion, isolation, and despair in the numerous fireworks of 97 Hong Kong. The fireworks st...

World Cinema

• United States
• 1999
• 87min

In the sleepy New England town of Loblolly By The Sea, a letter has arrived that is going to wake things up. It is a love letter-ardent, sensual… and unsigned. Everybody who reads it wonders who it's for and who it's from. As the ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 1999
• 90min

Huang Mingchuan′s first film -- the first truly independent feature ever made in Taiwan -- tells two stories at once. One of them, told principally in voice-over, is very ancient: a founding myth from the Atayal tribe (one of the...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1999
• 50min

Sabuk region is located deep in the Taebaek Mountains. Once a promising town with a flourishing coal-mining industry, it is slowly transforming into ruins, due to government′s policy for decreasing coal production and subsequent ...

New Currents

• SriLanka
• 1999
• 72min

A film about a love affair between a widower and a married woman leads us to expect a bittersweet or tragic romance. Director Linton Semage may not actually stray from this typical plot in The Outcast, however it turns out that t...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 1999
• 104min

Shown at the Cannes Film Festival this vear, The Personals tells of a woman who gets a new view of life from escaping her own past, with a serene and silent voice which is at the same time poignant. After her married lover disapp...

Wide Angle

• United States
• 1999
• 37min

On stage, a group of seniors perform their roles with energy and laughter. Off stage, they conduct their everyday lives alone in silence. The Personals follows a drama group of senior citizens, as they rehearse and perform an orig...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1999
• 14min

Some poets live their lives as a picnic; here we find a family going on a picnic for their demise. The obvious nature of their trip approaches with extreme strain on the viewers, with scenes unfolding in silence. As in his previ...

Wide Angle

• Austria,United States
• 1999
• 79min

The Port of Last Resort follows the emigration of four former refugees-Fred Fields, Ernest Heppner, illo Heppner, and Siegmar Simon-who fled to Shanghai, a ′last resort′ for most refugees when borders around the world were closed...