Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1998
• 18min

An isolated fishing village in winter. A woman lives alone in a store near the railroad. A younger woman has given up hope of receiving phone calls and is always the one to make calls. This is where the two lives intersect, when t...

Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 1998
• 58min

Set against the city landscape of Taipei, Chen jofei explores the fears and anxieties of a closet gay young writer. The "safe" world that the lives in is disrupted by the advances of a daring young man who refuses to compromise wi...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 1998
• 105min

In Korea, this film has been in the midst of scandal. While uniform-clad students flocked to the theaters lending their full support, TV did not hesitate to reproduce imitations. Furthermore, conservative education groups attempte...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 1998
• 124min

One day. novelist Han Ki-Ju has a visitor from his past. It is Byun Jin-Soo, a fellow veteran fought with in Vietnam. Byun leaves mysteriously after handing Han a gun. Failing to locate Byun, Han begins to remember violent experie...

Wide Angle

• China
• 1998
• 84min

Teenaged Jiang Zi is sexually molested in a public bathroom. His violation is as anonymous as the alienated metropolis he lives in. He turns to his friends for support but they are unable to handle the magnitude of the problem, a...

New Currents

• Thailand
• 1998
• 105min

Hollywood′s Back to the Future and Buddhist reincarnation theory meet each other in this film about overcoming the irreversibility of time. A common theme in film, it is interesting to see how this eternal desire of human beings i...

Special Programs in Focus

• U.S.
• 1998
• 82min

On a hot summer night, 1983. A young Chinese engineer Vincent Chin was killed on a street in downtown Detroit. The killers, Ronald Ebens and Michael Nitz were found not guilty for first degree murder, instead they were fined $3,00...

World Cinema

• Mexico
• 1998
• 90min

Blurring the boundaries between fiction and documentary, Marrcovich followed and filmed the lives of two young women for three years. Juliette is a lively and pretty young girl who secretly longs to be reunited with her father who...

World Cinema

• Germany
• 1998
• 124min

Winter. Human activity becomes the slave to implacable nature. In a small mountain village, five people′s lives will become inextricably linked by the whims of fate. Theo, a farmer who is almost bankrupt, is taking his horse to t...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1998
• 23min

The film is a genuine observatory record of the daily routines of two old men. One of them played guitar in a band when he was young, and plays his guitar at a park. He visits his friend who now sells bus-tokens in a tiny kiosk wh...