Open Cinema

• France
• 1998
• 110min

Franck loses his job when his boss sees his picture in a gossip magazine on the day he skips work. He seeks revenge on the ace paparazzi who took the picture, Michel Verdier. His life changes as he discovers a world of secrets for...

New Currents

• Japan
• 1998
• 90min

Set on a small island near Kyushu, Japan, Paradise Sea begins with an encounter between Shinji, a member of a traveling dance troupe, and an old man who has spent a lifetime building wooden boats. Drawn to the old man by some stra...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 1998
• 114min

Where do you find hope after war? Director Yu Hyun-Mok, who explored the gap between war and industrialization in the film, Aimless Bullet, asks this question on the brink of the 1980s. When the relatives of Dong-Man′s mothe come ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1998
• 70min

There are people who have their real names and also another name by which they are known. This is the reality of Koreans who live in Japan. Many hidden stories exist, however, of people who give up the Japanese name they have been...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1998
• 13min

This short film is a love letter to a dead person. On the way to school, one girl gets on a bus while the other remains behind. A momentary separation is transformed into an eternal separation. A shameful and shocking photo is sti...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 1998
• 18min

A bird suffering in the snow longs for the comfort of a cage has its wish fulfilled but at winter end, it hears the gay sounds of birds ready to celebrate spring.

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 1998
• 89min

To love and forget in the future is perhaps not important as this simple story is told with distanciation. A workaholic assassin leaves for China. A cartoonist at the same hotel falls in love with her at first sight. To keep her f...

Special Programs in Focus

• France
• 1998
• 100min

Sans Soleil purports to be footage of a peripatetic cameraman accompanied by a narration of his letters to a female friend. The film deals with the themes of memory and death by juxtaposing the two most antithetical nations of the...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 1998
• 106min

This is the fourth feature by Jang Hyun-Soo known for conventional action melodramas such as Walking All the Way to Heaven and Born to Kill. In this theatrical adaptation of Ha Byung-Mu′s novel, depicted a star-crossed love betwee...

Wide Angle

• Russia
• 1998
• 100min

The film Sergei Eisenstein: Mexican Fantasy is not an attempt to reconstruct a film that was never made except in the filmmaker′s head. It is an investigation in to the nature of incomplete films, and it attempts to touch on the s...