Retrospective Section

• Korea
• 1997
• 4min

The recording of scenic street scenes of Seoul， including its citizens. Taken by (presumably) a French missionary.

Retrospective Section

• Korea
• 1997
• 1min

The 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

• Belgium,France,Luxembourg
• 1997
• 93min

The 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

• Japan
• 1997
• 90min

Ishii 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

• Brazil
• 1997
• 96min

Landscapes 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

• India,Germany
• 1997
• 6959 ft.

The first Indo-German co-production film. This film depicts some foreign tourists who discovery holy something in India.

World Cinema

• Belgium,France,UK
• 1997
• 88min

Ma 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

• Switzerland
• 1997
• 75min

Shot 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

• Hong Kong
• 1997
• 100min

In 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

• UK
• 1997
• 8.23min

A 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...