A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 1998
• 102min

Through no fault of his own, things go terribly wrong for an innocent cop. Wu Jitang works at a local police station, often going above and beyond the call of duty to help those who live in his precinct. He is clean-living and hon...

New Currents

• China
• 1998
• 107min

By far the most interesting film from China this year, Xiao Wu starts out looking like an exercise in grungy social realism but gradually reveals itself to be something much more surprising. The eponymous protagonist is a scummy-b...

World Cinema

• France
• 1998
• 90min

This is the story of a frail but never discouraged woman who falls in love with her landlord, bears him seven children, and then raises them alone. The film provides a vivid picture of a harsh village life in the south of France w...

Special Programs in Focus

• U.S.
• 1998
• 26min

Like all eighth graders, Jennifer Lim just wants to fit in with the popular crowd at the Hutchison School in Memphis, Tennessee. So when she is invited to Becky Hightower′s - the most popular girl in school - birthday party, this ...

New Currents

• Korea
• 1998
• 85min

What does it mean to break the rules in these times? When does speed come to a halt? Where do taboo and violation branch out? This film explores these questions through the words of poet Kim Soo-Young. Part 1: A 30-year old man me...

Special Programs in Focus

• Japan
• 1998
• 100min

Yun is a sweet and spirited high school girl living in Osaka. Her life changes when she meets a young man who fall in love with her unaware of her Korean ethnicity. Despite the hostility they face from a Japanese society that disc...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Singapore
• 1997
• 100min

Three stories are interwoven in the course of one day in a block of subsidized residential flats. Ah Gu， a middle-aged man， has brought home a pretty young wife from China， whose high expectations of Singapore life lead her to ...

Open Cinema

• Korea
• 1997
• 83min

A place where naked bodies might without shame,public bath houses represent true Korean sentiments. Both houses used to be the place where teenager satisfied their curiosities, the generosity of washing the next person′s back was ...

Retrospective Section

• Hong Kong
• 1997
• 95min

Gangsters Mark and Ho are loyal friends. Ho wants to get away from the underworld to support his brother， Kit， who attends the police academy， but suffers from his friend’s betrayal while blaming his brothers for his troubles. ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1997
• 14min

This film presents a reality close to real life through its depiction of the small strains of earning a living. The taste of ginger is a metaphor for the various events that take place in our everyday lives. And the female charact...