World Cinema

• UK
• 1999
• 90min

A car accident leaves 12-year-old Lizzie dead and on her way to the light when she is jolted back to life. She feels certain that something has followed her back to this world. Disturbances start with merely tappings and bad smel...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 1999
• 119min

The film centers on characters who seek fiction for their ideals and love, yet suffer from it. Set in southern India in 1930s, the film depicts the love and the despair of a master of Kathakali, an ancient Indian performing art. ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1999
• 20min

′99 Pusan Short Film Festival Two men in a quiet city remember their estranged loves from the past. One ruminates on her traces with a movie camera, while another writes poetry as he waits. Somehow these two get to know each oth...

Wide Angle

• Canada
• 1999
• 9.5min

After witnessing the accidental death of a stranger, Ruby seeks affirmation in the city around her, and finds it in surprising places. With deft humour and finely rendered detail, When the Day Breaks illuminates the links which co...

Special Programs in Focus

• Vietnam
• 1999
• 95min

Like most countries that lived through the tragedy of war, Vietnam too has made numerous films dealing with the pains of war. Among the list, Dang Nhat Minh′s When the Tenth Month Comes is regarded as one of best films on this sub...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong,China
• 1999
• 88min

A story about a low-life and a widow with a son falling in love would seem too conventional. Yet director Johnnie To succeeds in transforming mannerisms into a delightful drama by presenting the characters in the most attractive ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1999
• 25min

Three Buddhist nuns live together with nature. The younger nun Si-Ja lives with elderly Sang-No and Kyung-Hae, who suffers from dementia. Si-Ja′s days are comprised of making lotus-shaped lights and taking care of Sang-No. This m...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1999
• 19min

People look at the world from the realms of their own experience with a subjective point of view Where Have You Been? is a tale of subversion in a small but personal world. There are two men: a chef spending his daily life in a d...

Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 1999
• 85min

Abbas Kiarostami made Where is the Friend＇s Home？about 12 years ago and film title＇s referred to a poem by the lranian contemporary poet, the late Sepehri, a perfect translation of the poem into film language. The film was firstly...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 1999
• 175min

Selected for this series by Lee Yong-Kwan and added to the programme by Kim Ji-Seok, Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? seems at first sight an anomalous choice for this context. Whereas the other films in the series make a ...