Retrospective Section
Korea, the Land of Morning CalmThe recording of scenic street scenes of Seoul, including its citizens. Taken by (presumably) a French missionary.
Retrospective Section
Kyung SungThe recording of Seoul circa 1940, featuring shots of Seoul Station and City Hall. Also shown are people engaged in their everyday activities, such as street merchants.
World Cinema
La PromesseThe adolescent Igor helps his father, Roger, run an illegal immigrant labor ring in Belgium. He loses his innocence when Roger leaves Hamidou, an African immigrant, to die after an accident. Before he dies, Hamidou asks Igor ...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Labyrinth of DreamsIshii Sogo was a pioneer of independent, self-taught film-making in Japan. He achieved a breakthrough for himself and many other would-be directors when he co-directed a 35mm remake of one of his student Super-8 film for commercia...
Wide Angle
Landscapes of MemoryLandscapes of Memory portrays the lives and mystical visions of the inhabitants of the Sertao (arid backlands) of Northeastern Brazil. Life for the Sertanejo is transformed into a pilgrimage between many spaces: from the exterior,...
Retrospective Section
Light of AsiaThe first Indo-German co-production film. This film depicts some foreign tourists who discovery holy something in India.
World Cinema
Ma Vie en RoseMa Vie en Rose is a film about difference. Ludovic is a little boy who dreams of being a little girl. What seems normal to him doesn’t seem that way to other people. It is also a film about a mother and father who don′t know how t...
Retrospective Section
Made in Hong KongShot from May to July 1996, six citizens look at Hong Kong before the handover. The anecdotes of a British civil servant, a South African Journalist, a Chinese musician, and an Indian businessman weave an account of an ambiguous ...
New Currents
Made in Hong KongIn Hong Kong, an industrialized and ultramodern city, youngsters do not take life seriously, the conditions of education and family is pernicious, values are disregarded, and alienation rules. The life of teenagers in Hong Kong is...
Wide Angle
Many Happy ReturnsA ghost-like little girl keeps tapping on a woman’s consciousness, demanding attention and recalling traumatic childhood events, distorting the woman’s experience of the present. The result is an examination of the ubiquitous pres...