World Cinema

• UK
• 1999
• 108min

Set in London during Bonfire Night weekend, Wonderland follows three generations of one family as their separate paths cross each other. Mum and Dad and marooned in a loveless marriage, both scarred by the absence of their son Dar...

Wide Angle

• Finland
• 1999
• 28min

Xenia-The Sacred Lady of St. Petersburg with the pristine palaces of Empress Catherine and the gloomy taverns on the outskirts of the town. The film focuses on a beautiful noblewoman, Xenia Grigoryevna Petrovna, who is married to...

World Cinema

• Israel
• 1999
• 90min

The story of Russian immigrants who land in the brave new world of Tel-Aviv, Israel during the time of the Gulf War. As scud missiles fly overhead, an entire country locks itself into airtight rooms, Yana and her friends wrestle ...

Special Programs in Focus

• China
• 1999
• 89min

Although The One and the Eight by Zhang Junzhao (photographed with astounding originality by Zhang Yimou) was the first real major work of the modern Chinese cinema that we conveniently came to label as the Fifth Generation filmma...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 1998
• 135min

The success of a documentary lies in the choices made about what and when to record, and how to present this one screen. A few years ago, the Asahara Shoko incident shocked Japan. The incident involved the collective action of you...

Special Programs in Focus

• Japan
• 1998
• 210min

In the summer of 1980, the Japanese islands were swept by cold air blown from the Pacific, hitting the village of Furuyashikimura beneath the mountains, When cold air blows down from the mountains, the village gets cold rapidly, d...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 1998
• 95min

PIFF is proud to present the world premiere of this posthumously discovered work in commemoration of the late Kim Ki-Young. Made in 1988, A Moment to Die For its consistent with his body of work which including The Housemaid, The ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Japan
• 1998
• 108min

This is Choi Yang-Il first film, whose All Under the Moon(93) put him in the ranks of New Japanese Cinema. Rock figure Uchida Yuya writes and stars in this true story. A police office lives alone on the 10th floor. Unable to repay...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 1998
• 4min

An old man arrives in a tribal school. Thinking he is an inspector from education department, the teacher receives him with great respect, and lets him ask the students questions. The tent in which classes were held has mysterious...

New Currents

• Japan
• 1998
• 118min

"How surprising is the fact that my existence can be a part of somebody else′s happiness?" This is director Kore-Eda Hirokazu′s question to the audience in this story about ′reminiscence′ and ′happiness′, even as it deals wtih the...