Retrospective Section

• India
• 1997
• 136 ft

Only a fragment of this documentary survives with fascinating glimpse of rural artisanal methods of making bricks.

World Cinema

• Russia
• 1997
• 96min

Danila Bagrov returns to his native town after two years in the Army. But life in the Russian provinces no longer suits him and he decides to move to St. Petersburg where his elder brother recently started to prosper. Danila finds...

World Cinema

• UK
• 1997
• 102min

From the moment that Amir arrives illegally in England from Pakistan, packed in a vegetable crate, nothing is as he expected. Instead of streets paved with gold, he finds himself holed up in a dismal house in the north of England ...

Wide Angle

• France
• 1997
• 24min

Life of a homeless told in frank, honest manner. We are introduced to Bruno, a part-time painter by day and a beggar by night who spends his nights at Gare de l′Est.

World Cinema

• UK
• 1997
• 90min

Two old roommates get together after a long period apart and reminisce about the good old days. Through a series of flashbacks we see the women as they were in the mid‘80s when they were students in London. Amid girl talk spiced w...

Retrospective Section

• Korea
• 1997
• 105min

The latest film by Kim Ki-Young, Carnivore is a remake of the 1972 the Insect Woman. The usual themes are present: Declining patriarchal authority, conflicts between the wife and her husband′s secret love, and disintegration of th...

Retrospective Section

• Hong Kong
• 1997
• 154min

The film centers on the legendary actress Ruan Lingyu who killed herself in the 1930s. Besieds telling her life story, Stanley Kwan describes the social situation of the 1920s and 1930s during which Chinese cinema was divided betw...

Retrospective Section

• Korea
• 1997
• 6min

A traditional Korean mask dance which originated during the Koryo Dynasty.

Opening Film

• France,UK,United States
• 1997
• 109min

John, a seasoned British journalist and Hong Kong veteran for 20 years, takes the opportunity to pursue his unrequited love in the last days before Hong Kong′s changeover to China. This love is Vivian, a bar hostess and former pro...

World Cinema

• Palestine,France
• 1997
• 88min

After living in New York for many years, the Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman returned to Israel for the making of this film. He used his privileged position as half insider and half outsider to analyze how much the Arab popul...