A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 1999
• 118min

Abbas Kiarostami presents a man whose interest in death turns into an epiphany that reveals the value of life and nature. A group of reporters from Tehran arrive in a small Kurdish village near the Iranian border, in order to cov...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1999
• 24min

After the passing of grandmother, only the closet is left to occupy the small living area. Forced to abandon the house in what is labeled as a re-development region, everyone but the father insists on leaving the closet. With its...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 1999
• 105min

This is one of a handful comedies Yu Hyun-Mok has directed in his career, enabling us to examine his cinematic world from another point of view. Three generations of the Gong family′s battle of the sexes are depicted. Not having ...

World Cinema

• United States,Vietnam
• 1999
• 108min

A new era has begun in Vietnam; western influences are growing and the atmosphere of old Saigon is slowly being swallowed up. Four strangers in Saigon find themselves suddenly expatriates in their own beautiful country. Young Kie...

New Currents

• India
• 1999
• 60min

Happy death to all! This event which absurdly transforms a falsely-charged death into a happy execution for the sake of politics is a most biting parody on the political process. Set in a small village in Kerala, Southern India. ...

New Currents

• Japan
• 1999
• 95min

The ′other′ always speaks in a strange language. It is only when the meaning penetrates our heart that we respond to each other′s voices. It is this moment that signals the start of empathy. In this the Japanese film, Timless Mel...

World Cinema

• UK
• 1999
• 165min

London in 1980. The popular comic operas of Gilbert (words) and Sullivan(music) have never failed, but their latest, Princess Ida receives a lukewarm press. Sullivan wants to quit in favour of serious music, but the two are under...

Special Programs in Focus

• Japan
• 1999
• 97min

Ugetsu Story made Mizoguchi visible in the Western film scene, winning the Silver Lion and Italian Critics′ Award at the Venice Film Festival in 1953. Yoshikata Yoda and Matsutaro Kawaguchi wrote the screenplay based on two short ...

World Cinema

• Sweden
• 1999
• 118min

In 1956 Olaf lives alone on his family′s farm after his mother′s death. Unable to read and write, Olaf is dependent on his younger friend Erik. Erik, once a sailor, brags of having known hundreds of women but now works part-time ...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 1999
• 90min

Veteran director Cho Moon-Jin confronts the pain of modern Korean history through the story of a dispersed family. In 1980, a North Korean soldier crosses the DMZ to seek his father, becoming wounded and losing his memory in the ...