World Cinema

• Iceland
• 1997
• 85min

Atsushi Hirata, a young employee in a Tokyo fish company, is forced to give up his vacation in Hawaii to perform a memorial service for his parents. The ceremony can only be held at the place where they died: a river in a remote c...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 1997
• 100min

The kitsch sensibility of this film contributes to its experimental spirit.This film, is about spectacle rather than narrative.Along these lines, the underwater photography is especially ambitious. Young-Pae,nicknamed ＂Crocodile＂...

Wide Angle

• UK
• 1997
• 33min

There are four performers in this unsetting and sometimes surreal film: a drummer， a swimmer， an ice skater and a fourth woman. There is no spoken dialogue， but meaning is conveyed through movement and sound. The action takes p...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand
• 1997
• 100min

40 years ago gangs ruled Bangkok, Dang Bireley and Young Gangsters is a classic gangster tale full of drop-dead beauties, violent shoot-outs, and tough gangsters with hearts of gold. Dang Bireley was a real person, a famous gangst...

Retrospective Section

• Hong Kong
• 1997
• 100min

Hong Kong in 1960. Ahfei is displeased with his mother who dates young men. He too has relations with a bunch of women including a gymnasium ticket seller and a bar hostess. Finally he goes to Philippines， searching for his real ...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 1997
• 100min

Melodrama, although considered a familiar genre, changes styles during each period. Director Kwak Ji-Kyun established the conventions of the 80′s, and now seems to be seeking a new approach for the 90′s. The love triangle between ...

World Cinema

• Mexico,France,Spain
• 1997
• 114min

Coral, a buxom young nurse who raises her two children along is a fan of French actor Charles Boyer. In order to make fun of her chubbiness and her corny personality, her colleagues offer her a letter written by a Nicolas Estrella...

Wide Angle

• Germany
• 1997
• 77min

Focusing on films from the former Soviet Union, the former German Democratic Republic, and the former socialist republics of Czechoslovakia, Romania, Poland and Bulgaria.this program takes an all singing, all dancing peek behind t...

Closing Film

• Hong Kong
• 1997
• 125min

EIGHTEEN SPRINGS is a sumptuous period film with epic yet personal touches, and is perhaps Ann Hui′s most accomplished film to date. Set in Shanghai in the 30s, the film is based on a novel by Eileen Chang, one of the most famous ...

New Currents

• Taiwan
• 1997
• 102min

This is a story about love and death. One day， two lovers meet to commit suicide together. The man survives， and in fear of being accused of murder， he goes out to buy more sleeping pills. Therein begins this story intertwined ...