Retrospective Section

• Unknown
• Korea
• 1997
• 1.3min

A short that documents the scenic view of Pusan in its entirety. Also featured are picturesque scenes of Seoul including the National Zoo.

Wide Angle

• Lee Sung-Min
• Korea
• 1997
• 17min

This film begins with repressed childhood fantasies unraveling before us like a Hong Kong film， seeming to signify that the protagonist’s memories are caught in a pool of fake images. No exit for escape exists， only a contamina...

Retrospective Section

• KIM Ki-Young
• Korea
• 1997
• 110min

When Woo-Hyun attempts to promote a new island hotel， he faces objections from a local reporter， Chun Nam-Seok. Chun disappears into the ocean and Woo-Hyun becomes the prime suspect. To search for clues behind Chun’s disappearan...

Wide Angle

• Tessa Sheridan
• UK
• 1997
• 8min

A neglected girl talks about her strange encounter with a bubble gum market researcher. The sickly-sweet saleswoman is pushing a brand of bubble gum that is guaranteed to blow bubbles but the girl has bigger problems to worry abou...

World Cinema

• Bille August
• Sweden,Norway,Denmark,Finland,Iceland
• 1997
• 166min

Bill August′s adaptation of Selma Lagerlof′s emigration epic, Jerusalem, is a fateful and magnificent chronicle of love and religious fanaticism. The Ingmarssons have governed their parish for generation when one day Ingmar sen...

Wide Angle

• Nicolas Cuche
• France
• 1997
• 16min

Two hooligans hang around in their neighborhood to do wrong. They decide to snatch an old lady’s handbag.

World Cinema

• Pal Sletaune
• Norway
• 1997
• 83min

Return to Sender! Roy is a love-starved mailman with a penchant for opening other people

New Currents

• Satoki Kemmochi
• Japan
• 1997
• 118min

Kono is from a small town who came to Tokyo with big dreams. Takase is quitting his delivery job to join Kono in dealing drugs. Takase introduces Kono to Nanae， an illustrator also from the provinces with dreams of her own. Kono ...

Retrospective Section

• D.G.Phalke
• India
• 1997
• 444 ft

This film deals with episodes from the divine play of the child Krishna. With its blending of Western filmic techniques and distinct Indian ethos, it is the first definitive masterpiece of Indian cinema.

World Cinema

• Robert Altman
• United States
• 1997
• 118min

It′s Kansas City, 1934, the eve of one of "Boss" Tom Pendergast′s violent elections. The city is wide-open in the midst of the Depression, reverberating to the energy of non-stop jazz. Blondie O′Hara, a young telegraph operator...