World Cinema
Cold FeverAtsushi 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
CrocodileThe 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
Crystal AquariumThere 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
Dang Bireley and Young Gangsters40 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
Days of Being WildHong 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
Deep BlueMelodrama, 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
Deep CrimsonCoral, 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
East Side StoryFocusing 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
Eighteen SpringsEIGHTEEN 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
Falling Up Waking DownThis 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 ...