Special Programs in Focus

• Japan
• 1998
• 84min

Hanada brings a camera into a public hospital for the senile in this documentary which warmly observes the patients, their families and a medical system which believes in "consent, rather than persuasion." A 78-years-old patient b...

Open Cinema

• United States
• 1998
• 72min

Grant and kerry boyer are newlyweds. But when two fornicating ducks crash into a satellite dish causing the TV to shoot a strange radiation inti grant's brain, their life tunes upside down.

Wide Angle

• The Netherlands
• 1998
• 8.2 min

A drawing of a hand that in turn draws, animates hands, shoulders, heads, legs, past, present, future, developing technique along the way. The artist animates a hand animating a man that becomes the artist. Portraits moving portra...

New Currents

• Japan
• 1998
• 101min

Nine lugubrious men meet on a tour bus outside Naha Airport in Okinawa, joining a tour organiser, a guide and a driver, all of them dead serious. All with debts they cannot pay, they plan to die in an ‘accidental’ crash two days l...

World Cinema

• Russia
• 1998
• 85min

In the Film In That Country, a cross-section of life in Russia is depicted. The shepherd Nikolai Skuridin is a quiet man who doesn′t dare to talk at home lest he bring on himself the wrath of his wife and mother-in-law. Chapurin, ...

Wide Angle

• Hong Kong China
• 1998
• 67min

Hong Kong, the beginning of the year 1997. An immigrant man returns to look for work. Unable to find anything, he sets himself up as an immigration advisor, and meets a girl at a train station who he falls in love with at an amuse...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 1998
• 114min

In a remote fishing village in the 1950’s, Pepito, son of the island’s only midwife, grows up learning his mother’s trade. As he grows older, he becomes uncomfortable with this traditional woman’s occupation. The story follows his...

World Cinema

• Greece
• 1998
• 118min

A film about three people who head towards the turning point in their lives. " A Silver Coin on the Lips": An archaeologist discovers a tomb containing the remains of an officer of the Hellenistic period. This event spurs him to l...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 1998
• 95min

The time that Yoo Young Kil entered the film industry was when Korean cinema was at its peak. His second film as a cinematographer in 1969. Jar-Making Old Man, is a literary film about the collapse of the family and its reconcilia...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 1998
• 27min

An apprentice working for a coal seller works looks at a jeweller′s apprentice with envy, until one day...