Special Programs in Focus

• Japan
• 1998
• 106min

Rika, a quiet and well-behaved 28-year-old English teacher leads a comfortable life with her boyfriend Kengo. That is, until out of the blue, he confesses his love for another and moves out. Her new roommate Hanako′s personality i...

Special Programs in Focus

• China
• 1998
• 158min

Set against the backdrop of post-Tianamen Beijing, Family portrait is an intimate picture of modern day life in urban China. If Bloody Morning is still reminiscent of certain traits common to most fifth generation filmmakers, then...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan,Japan
• 1998
• 120min

Although it′s based on a century-old novel by Han Ziyun (as ′translated′ into modern Chinese by Eileen Chang), Hou′s new film is less a literary adaptation than a distillation of a vanished world with its own language, etiquette a...

New Currents

• Korea
• 1998
• 95min

How does it feel to watch an album full of old black and white photos? And what do we wait for over the years? Barthes compares this waiting to the whirlpool of suffering caused by something as trivial as waiting for a loved one w...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1998
• 29min

A boy who dreams of being a dancer wants to quit school. A girl hangs around a TV station in hopes of meeting her idol. Using a handheld camera and naturalistic acting, a two unconventional teenagers are sensitively depicted. Film...

World Cinema

• Switzerland
• 1998
• 124min

It′s Friday morning, a day of the full moon, and 12 ten-year-olds disappear on their way to school. The kidnappers leave no clue and make no contact with the police or the parents. Inspector Anatol Water, in charge of this bizarre...

World Cinema

• France
• 1998
• 100min

Stephane is on a quest to find the Gypsy singer Nora Luca, who sang a song that has haunted him since his childhood. On a cold winter night in Romania he meets up with the Gypsy fiddler, isidor, who is grieving because his sone ha...

New Currents

• Korea
• 1998
• 105min

Yeon works at at hotel, Ho-Jeong is the daughter of a wealthy businessman and Soon is a graduate student - all are single women facing their 30s. The three gather for a dinner party where the main item on the menu is discussion ab...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1998
• 28min

Sam-Shik steals storylines from pron videos and uses them in cheesy film scripts; Hwa-Jung dreams about being an actress while she works at a bakery. In a realistic depiction of everyday life, and eschewing high drama, Glass Ceili...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 1998
• 25min

An old man living beside the Glassy Ocean encounters a leap of a whale. In this place where time flows at a snail′s pace, the splash of seawater is like so many glass beads; and the whale hangs in the air as if suspended, taking a...