World Cinema

• United States
• 1997
• 93min

Madeleine, a middle-aged English actress, is locked in a struggle with her American husband over their adopted daughter. He career is at an impasse and her marriage is ending. Meanwhile, Oliver, a downsized IBM executive, is livin...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 1997
• 90min

Master satirist Huang Jianxin‘s new film is a kind of thriller, but one with most of the generic thriller elements (fights, chases, arrests) left somewhere off-screen. As you might expect from a director responsible for the most a...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 1997
• 95min

In a foresty village suffering from economic recession and decreasing population， people have put their hopes for a better future in the promise that the railroad will soon be coming through. But as years pass and the project rem...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1997
• 13min

A series of fragmented images choreographed to the tune of swing jazz celebrates the free and experimental spirit of both the music and short films. The cross editing between the fictive life of a porn star and jazz music especial...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 1997
• 95min

Abbas Kiarostami puts his alter-ego, Badii on the road again as he did to Ahmad, farhad, and Hossein in his previous films. In Taste of Cherry, Kiarostami looks for the meaning of life through a different perspecctive than of his ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1997
• 7min

Using the techniques of stop motion, this film is an animation of a video deck’s aversion to pornography. A man tries to insert a porn film into his video deck by force. He is sucked into the video and becomes a porn star himself....

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 1997
• 23min

Every day, a cook fries hundreds of shrimp in 180 centigrade oil. A crawfish at home is his only friend. The irony of his everyday life is depicted in this humorous short.

Retrospective Section

• Hong Kong
• 1997
• 100min

When Wang Yu′s films were no longer popular in korea, Bruce Lee was considered a new discovery, because Wang Yu′s popular films were about swordsmanship and his new works about marshal skills were less dynamic than Bruce Lee′s. Th...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1997
• 12min

Kang Yong-Ju is a political offender imprisoned at Andong Penitentiary. On her 70th birthday, Chung’s mother wishes to spend one day with a surrogate son (Yoon Dong-Hwan) as a normal mother and son， only to encounter the truth an...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 1997
• 105min

Alienation seems to be the key word for relationships in the 90s.The irony is that the expectation towards technology＇s ability to somehow mend this＂problem＂has become another way of exclusion.Radio producer Dong-Hyun,and home sho...