Retrospective Section

• India
• 1997
• 7915 ft.

This film recounts the life of Marthanda Varma, the legendary founder of Travancore State and is the lone survivor of the relatively small but significant south Indian film industry.

Retrospective Section

• Japan
• 1997
• 76min

Makino Shozo is called the father of Japanese cinema. He worked as a director, producer, and creator in the developing period of Japanese cinema. Shozo revitalized the Kyoto period drama and raised Onoe Matsunosuke, hte ex-Kabuki ...

Wide Angle

• Cambodia
• 1997
• 30min

This is a documentary about a certain woman, who comes back to her native country, Cambodia, after having lived in a camp in Thailand during the civil war, and then adapts herself to the life in Phnom Penh with her children. Like ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1997
• 17min

Oblivion is like turning your eyes towards eternity / in the midst of fantasy / as a storm can’t be met in the middle of a hurricane / we can’t feel existence-- Borrowing from the ideas of Octavio Paz who saw poetry as a return of...

Open Cinema

• United States
• 1997
• 100min

Money Talks is a non-stop, action-adventure film by comedy. Franklin Hatchett is a petty con artist catapulted from obscurity to celebrity overnight when he is wrongly accused of planning a deadly prison break. Now everyone wants ...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 1997
• 10min

A man obsessed with filmmaking tries to fix on film everything he sees before him. But， as the situation escalates， the story grows out of hand， nad in his agony， the man begins to be menaced by an image of death.

New Currents

• Korea
• 1997
• 91min

Almost half of the lights that fill the Seoul nightscapes are motel signboards. It is in these places that many spend their youth. Hyun-Ju is sentimental about her memories at the motel, and Min-Gu finds Hyun-Ju a burden. To these...

World Cinema

• Russia,Germany
• 1997
• 79min

Mother and Son is the story of the deep bond between a mother and her son. As the last two inhabitants of an empty village， the son nurses his mother through her last days. The striking landscape in which they live has a sad beau...

Wide Angle

• Singapore
• 1997
• 13min

A day in the gastronomic life of a Singaporean man whose insatiable taste for all kinds of food consumed in all kinds of places leads him to strange and wondrous situations. The film explores the tupperware rituals and trivial but...

New Currents

• Japan
• 1997
• 83min

A young woman bank teller passionately in love with money becomes a local hero after being taken hostage by bank robbers. Her efforts to locate the money abandoned by the now dead bank robbers leads her to study geology， scuba-di...