Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1996
• 48 mins

Mothers of long-term prisoners of conscience currently suffer an excruciating oppression from the absence of their sons. Donned in the color purple to express the anguish in their lives, these women unflinchingly unveil the scars...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 1996
• 100 mins

Once, a little girl was alive. This stark and uncompromising film follows an adolescent girl′s harrowing odyssey into individual memory and modern Korean history. A casualty of the political upheaval that rocked South Korea in the...

Wide Angle

• Russia
• 1996
• 97 mins

The Pilot Moscow Animation Studio is the first private animation film studio in the Soviet Union, founded in 1988 by Alexander Tatarsky, Igor Kovalev, and Anatoly Prokhorov. In 1991 Tatarsky and Prokhorov organized the Second Frog...

World Cinema

• France
• 1996
• 105 mins

Toward the end of a war he hasn′t fought in, a man decides to become a hero, or rather to impersonate one - to invent a richer, more admirable life than his own. In tumultuous Paris of 1944/45, he becomes a virtuoso liar and, via ...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 1996
• 96 mins

South Korea in 1975 was nicknamed "The Dark Age," a period of oppression, despair and justified paranoia following President Park Chung-Hee′s plans for "emergency measures" to further regulate society. Today, Kim Young-Su is writi...

World Cinema

• France
• 1996
• 113 mins

Set in Dinard, this film takes place during summer vacation. While Gaspard is waiting Lena, he meets Margot, an anthropology student who works as a restaurant waitress to earn money on the side. Margot takes him to a dance club wh...

Special Programs

• UK
• 1996
• 75 mins

A Grand Day Out Director : Nick PARK 1989, 35mm, color, 23 mins. Adam Director : Peter LORD 1991, 35mm, color, 6 mins. Rex the Runt: How Dinosaurs Became Extinct Director : Richard GOLESZOWSKI 1991, 35mm, color, 2 mins...

New Currents

• Taiwan
• 1996
• 126 mins

In the late Ching Dynasty, political corruption and natural disasters plagued the land. The government sets up reservations in remote wastelands to put away the hungry and wandering people caught between uprising forces, religious...

New Currents

• Taiwan
• 1996
• 98 mins

Ah-Chung lives with his dysfunctional family in a shanty town next to a wildlife reservation zone. His mentally ill brother almost gets knocked over by a truck intended to illegally dump waste there. To appease the gods and to rid...

New Currents

• China
• 1996
• 90 mins

Shuiqin had planned on celebrating the Mid-Autumn festival simply. But when she and the town learn that her nephew will return after a long absence to relish her pea noodles, the poor family bustles with excitement. To her astoni...