Special Programs in Focus

• Mongolia
• 1998
• 75min

A little boy named Toguldur leaves home with a hatred for his mother who has worked as a prostitute since his father′s death. But he gets kidnapped and is put to use in robberies by a gangster group. One day he meets a kind old ma...

Opening Film

• Iran,France
• 1998
• 77min

The Silence is the story of a young blind saint. Since the departure of his father for Russia, ten-year-old Korshid has lived alone with his mother in a small village in Tadzhikistan. The mother and son live a meager life, but Kor...

Wide Angle

• United States
• 1998
• 88min

The film shatters a half-century of silence for Korean women forced into sexual servitude by the Japanese Imperial Army, during World War II. The women demand justice for the crimes against humanity committed against them, their ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1998
• 16min

In this unsentimental look at human relations, an injured factory worker sells lottery tickets while one of his customers sells porn videos. Although one has stopped desiring and the other continues to desire, they both exploit th...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1998
• 10min

We see vague memories through the eyes of a young girl - the scars of youth - as she encounters uncertain emotions. Bo-Young, who lives in the countryside, encounters an unfamiliar boy when she goes skating on a frozen river. She ...

World Cinema

• USA
• 1998
• 100min

Ray Joshua, a talented young poet known for his extraordinary "slamming" - a combination of poetry and rap sweeping through America, finds himself in jail on a petty drug charge. There, he finds love and hope through a beautiful w...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 1998
• 7min

The character is due to go on a trip next morning but the neighbor′s snoring disturbs him.

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 1998
• 121min

The subject of the Korean War imposes great weight on a story. This film succeeds in maintaining the balance between lyricism and minimalism, between realism and modernity. Revisiting the past, the film raises fundamental questio...

Wide Angle

• Mongolia,Belgium
• 1998
• 91min

"A dog who dies/and who knows/that he dies like a dog/and who can say/that he knows/that he dies like a dog/is a man." (Erich Fried) State of Dogs is the retelling of a Mongolian parable about a stray dog who doesn′t want to beco...

World Cinema

• Canada
• 1998
• 100min

Louise lives in a run-down building, alone in a sheltered world, simply cut off. Her only contacts with the outside world are Julien, her lover from 5 to 7, and her sister Paulette. No longer content with her isolation, she makes ...