Wide Angle

• France
• 1996
• 75 mins

The unknown planet Earth is rediscovered on a scale of centimeters. The inhabitants walk on water, stroll with their heads down and fall without fear from a hundred times their height, cushioned only by the air′s resistance. In th...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 1996
• 56mins

presents two HIV carriers′story through " face to face" interviews. Since homophobia remains severe in Taiwan, "coming out" as having a non-heterosexual sexual orientation is difficult, not to mention bing HIV carriers. Filmmaker...

New Currents

• India
• 1996
• 130 mins

Nationally acclaimed dancer Sarojini and her daughter Aditi confront the distance amassed between them. Sarojini is enveloped in her art while Aditi sees herself as irrelevant in her mother′s world. Through flashbacks, the film ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Vietnam
• 1996
• 116 mins

Seventeen-year-old Nham, lover of poetry, lives in the countryside of Vietnam as the man of the family with his mother and young sister-in-law. His father having passed away and his brother living far from the village, he too will...

New Currents

• Japan
• 1996
• 99 mins

Takashi, a teacher at a cram school, work from evening to late at night seven days a week. Blinded by his workaholic ethic, he fails to notice the anxiety developing within his wife, Yuriko. She works at home, alone, as an audio t...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1996
• 6 mins

A group of matches are bundled together in a very limited space. They try to cover whatever space they can. They can only be more spacious when a another member leaves. The last match finds another space in a new world， and wors...

korean Retrospective

• Korea
• 1996
• 118 mins

In love with fellow college student Hye-Lin, Young-Min attends every play she performs in and anonymously sends her flowers. But she marries Sung-Woo and the couple move away. Years later, Young-Min accidentally meets a divorced H...

korean Retrospective

• Korea
• 1996
• 119 mins

The funeral of a teacher functions as a class reunion and a mnemonic retrospection for Byung-Tae, now a teacher himself at a college pre-school. After moving from Seoul to the countryside, he transferred to an all-boys clash, but ...

korean Retrospective

• Korea
• 1996
• 100 mins

For an accidental homicide, Seong-Geun is sentenced to prison until the year 2000. Kyung-Young, a coarse and effeminate petty thief, dreams of bank robbery. One dawn, mafia-inmates hijack a police van full of prisoners being trans...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1996
• 18 mins

A woman arrives home. Relaxing in her routine manner, she suddenly dives in to a dream-like fantasy. A dead man′s spirit approaches her and she witnesses his death. She begins to feel compassion for him and comes to a realization.