Retrospective Section

• Hong Kong
• 1997
• 93min

An debt-collector stays the night in a haunted temple. He meets a ghost-busting Daoist eccentric who warns him about ghosts and demons. Sure enough， Cheng falls under the wiles of a beautiful ghost-seductress who lures men into a...

Retrospective Section

• Korea
• 1997
• 55min

Heo Young, who made films in Japan during the Japanese occupation of Korea including Japanese propagandas during Pacific War, is a forgotten name to Koreans. But he realized national consciousness when he was in Indonesia where hi...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 1997
• 53min

A personal documentary about the filmmaker’s 92 year-old grandmother. Takako Miura is 92 year-old and has lived alone since her husband died six years ago. She regards herself as the president of a radio station and is the announc...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong
• 1997
• 110min

＂Coming out ＂ takes different forms depending on the culture. A Queer Story illustrates the situations of gays in Hong Kong and China. the story focuses on the love between middle-aged Law Kar-Sing and young Sonny while depicting ...

Retrospective Section

• Hong Kong
• 1997
• 200min

Ku Shen-chai， a young artist and scholar is amazed to discover a beautiful woman living in a abandoned fort nearby. They become lovers， and Ku gradually realizes that she is a refugee from political terror. Under the tutelage of...

New Currents

• Hong Kong
• 1997
• 118min

The big city of Hong Kong is a splendid place, but a desert to the young, During the course of one day, Meme has many experiences and encounters people to talk to, but receives no consolation for her loneliness. On the contrary, s...

Wide Angle

• India
• 1997
• 28min

Ajit is an eight year old child labourer in a calcurra. He is one of the nine children of Muneswar, a landless farmer in North Bihar. In spite of bad conditions, Ajit is steeped in consumerism in the wake of the so callled liberal...

Retrospective Section

• Hong Kong
• 1997
• 98min

Set among the idyllic red and orange leaves of New York， Cheun Yuen-ting spins a warm fairytale about the unusual real-life adventures of his good friend “Boat Head.” Boat Head falls for a girl whose behavior and lifestyle are co...

Retrospective Section

• Taiwan
• 1997
• 59min

Director Ann Hui and her friends talk of growing up in Hong Kong -- deciding whether to identify with Chinese or English culture, or choosing between the cultural revolution or the revolution in rock-and-roll. They talk of being m...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 1997
• 96min

This film is an examination of the situations in life overlooked by pointing the camera at the daily lives of foreigners and those alienated from society. Khan and Jacky are illegal aliens from Bangladesh. Their lives are far f...