World Cinema

• the Netherlands
• 1998
• 95min

Brand, the illiterate farmer, has been introduced to new ways of thinking by Lena, a young teacher who comes to give him lessons at home, on the farm. Keet, Brand′s suspicious wife, keeps a close eye on both of them, because she s...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 1998
• 102min

Granny Ah Xi lives a solitary existence and is becoming increasingly more erratic. Two helpers leave in frustration. Then a third girl comes to work and the two develop a sincere friendship. Granny Ah Xi decides to give her life e...

World Cinema

• Spain
• 1998
• 100min

This erotic thriller about passion and revenge spans almost 25 years, and is about Victor who was born on a Madrid night bus in 1970. Twenty years later, this child of the streets falls in love with Elena, a rich young woman hooke...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1998
• 22min

Shot in Poland, the film raises existential questions about the nature of life and death in a variation of the story of Cain and Abel. Cain takes Abel′s liver from his almost-dead body, which lies in a public execution spot, putti...

Wide Angle

• Netherlands
• 1998
• 55min

In this captivating behind-the scenes look into the making of To Sang Fotostudio, we see van der Keuken "direct" reality, his wife, Noshka van der Lely, record sound and witness the mixture of camaraderie, work and improvisation t...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 1998
• 114min

In the late 1980s, the collaboration of new directors and Yoo Young-Kil started a new wave in Korean cinema. Accordingly, the collaboration of Yoo and Jang Sun-Woo can be considered a turning point in Korean cinema. In this film, ...

Wide Angle

• Canada
• 1998
• 21min

A thirty years old man visits his alcoholic father to tell him once and for all what′s on his mind : a full load of resentment and reproaches. But he soon realizes that the task at end is not that easy. One major obstacle gets in ...

Wide Angle

• India
• 1998
• 20min

Mahakapi 95 is based on an ancient jakata tale. A group of monkeys lived in a mango tree by the river. A ripe mango fell into a fisherman′s net. The fisherman took the mango to the king who had never seen such a fruit. The court l...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1998
• 50min

This film aims to critique of the kind of reasoning at work within a society which is capable of cruelty and causes individual suffering. The atrocities of an era are detailed in this espose that looks at the two espionage set-ups...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 1998
• 15min

This animation parodies the stupid people whose greed corrupts them and the world at large.