World Cinema

• Youssef Chahine
• Egypt
• 1999
• 101min

Love at first sight, marriage. Adam and Hanane have fallen madly in love. The young Egyptian girl is a journalist from a humble background. She is writing to denounce the profiteering of the wealthy elite at the people′s expense. ...

World Cinema

• Lucian PINTILIE
• Romania,France
• 1999
• 108min

Norica, a waitress, and Mitu, a pig herder, meet up and play around on a summer′s day on the outskirts of Bucharest. Mitu doesn′t remember anything from the day before, but their affair is more than just a one-night-stand. It coul...

World Cinema

• Olivier Assayas
• France
• 1999
• 110min

Late August, Early September relates events from late August one year until early September the next. It runs from the breakdown in Gabriel and Jenny′s relationship, despite the affection that continues to bind them, to the affir...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Chito S. ROÑO
• Philippines
• 1999
• 109min

Is becoming a good mother totally different from becoming a woman of respect? In a patriarchal society, the answer may be yes. In Lea′s Story, Lea raises objection to this idea. Lea is a career woman with a divorce record. She is...

Special Programs in Focus

• Garin Nugroho
• Indonesia
• 1999
• 82min

The film that launched a new realism in Indonesian cinema. In 1995, director Garin made Kancil′s Tale of Freedom, a documentary about the life of kids on the streets of Jogjakarta. Unfortunately three of the four children he filme...

Wide Angle

• Park Ki Bok
• Korea
• 1999
• 61min

There are people who live just to exist. To them, questioning their existence is a luxury since they are completely locked out of society. That′s why they are in discord with it. These include sick people on the road, homeless sl...

Korean Panorama

• Jang Sun-Woo
• Korea
• 1999
• 113min

Jang Sun-Woo is always poking at the Achilles′ heels of Korean society and Lies is no exception, as he once again crosses the line of taboos. Due to its frank depiction of a sado-masochistic sexual relation between a middle-aged ...

Wide Angle

• Bahman GHOBADI
• Iran
• 1999
• 28min

A boy named Nezhad, at 14 years old, is forced to care for his younger brother and two sisters after the death of their parents. He drops out of school and begins smuggling goods on the Iran/Iraq border with his mule. His mule bre...

New Currents

• YU Lik Wai
• Hong Kong,China
• 1999
• 109min

It is 1997, after the handover. Hong-Kong may still be a land of opportunity for mainland Chinese yet for many it remains a place of hardship. For the talented cinemtographer Yu Lik Wai, Love WilI Tear Us Apart may as well be a c...

Wide Angle

• Jang Hee-Sun
• Korea
• 1999
• 54min

The film begins from the rooftop of an apartment, where grandmother and her granddaughter spread out red peppers to dry in the sun; it ends with the two gathering up the peppers, only this time the mother has joined the scene. In...