korean Retrospective

• Korea
• 1996
• 100 mins

In a mining village layered in gray dust, a man posing as Kim Ki-Young finds refuge from winter and the law. Wanted by the police for an offense he commited under the authoritarian rule of the 1980′s， he conceals himself as an od...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1996
• 23 mins. 53s

′Taehakro,′ the cultural center of Seoul, where many citizens stride, eulogizing the blessings of liberty. Focusing on the movements of a certain Saturday, this profile leads to the features of our present world and ponders on its...

World Cinema

• Denmark,France
• 1996
• 158 mins

In the early 1970′s, a naive girl, Bess, living in a small community on the coast of Scotland, falls in love with oil-rig worker and man-of-the-world Jan. Despite local opposition, they marry. Jan returns to the rig, whilst Bess c...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 1996
• 96 mins

This film examines in three parts: 1) women′s remarriage to survive the post-Korean war; 2) living between an accelerated desire for Westernization while respecting tradition under a military regime; 3) a gay man′s challenge to f...

World Cinema

• Russia,France
• 1996
• 152 mins

One wearisome summer day in 1936, Dimitri returns unexpectedly after ten years to his native-town to visit Maroussia. She has married Sergui and has given birth to Nadia. Dimitri is an officer in Stalin′s Army. Why dose Dimitri re...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 1996
• 21 mins

In a city where fat women set the beauty criterion, fat Fujiko is flattered everyday. One day on the beach, she tries to look her best, but nothing goes her way.

Wide Angle

• Thailand
• 1996
• 104 mins

Best Documentary winner at the Long Island Film Festival, asks viewers to question their assumptions about Cambodia: Who must share responsibility for the violence which has wrecked the country over the last 25 years? What is the...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 1996
• 100 mins

Former TV producer and illicit information dealer Je-Ha makes it his business to snoop for social injustice. While hunting after the hacker/virus-maker " Messiah of Darkness," he discovers a model， Mini, in the computer program. ...

Wide Angle

• Philippines
• 1996
• 6 mins

A poverty-stricken mother′s desperate attempt to dispose of her baby is set against the city′s decadence.

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1996
• 52 mins

A personal essay on Korean Cinema. This documentary discerns the intimate connection between modern Korean history and the development of Korean cinema. Director Jang Sun-Woo untangles the wires co-meshing nation and cinema, quest...