Retrospective Section

• Cheng Bugao
• China
• 1997
• 94min

1930s Chinese cinema established a tradition of realism of which The Spring Silkworms is a representative work. Depictions of the urban poor and impoverished rural areas reveal the structural problems of Chinese society. The Sprin...

World Cinema

• Sally Potter
• UK
• 1997
• 100min

The Tang Lesson is inspired by Sally Porter′s passion for Argentinian tango. The story is set in London, Paris and Buenos Aires. While working on a script for a Hollywood studio, a film director discovers the tango. She meets a yo...

Wide Angle

• Gunnar BERGDAHL
• Sweden
• 1997
• 87min

The Voice of Bergman is a long conversation where Bergman talks about his relation to the art of film, the music of film and his enchantment with the close-up. He expresses his passion for filmmaking and filmmakers. It is a journe...

Retrospective Section

• KIM Ki-Young
• Korea
• 1997
• 115min

A trademark of Kim Ki-Young′s career is a series of films that are variations of the same storyline. The housemaid series includes the films The Housemaid, The Woman of Fire, and The Woman of Fire′82. Composer Dong-Shik manages...

Korean Panorama

• Jang Sun-Woo
• Korea
• 1997
• 120min

With its claims for disregarding norms and principles, the social context which this film depicts raised both controversy and appraisal among Korean viewers. Film critic Kang Han-Sup described this film as "a success in its effort...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kumai Kei
• Japan
• 1997
• 114min

To Love is about youthful love, and the need for the human rights of Japanese lepers. Mitsu Morita finds love sith Tsutomu Yoshioka, but they separate when Mitsu is diagnosed with leprosy. At the sanitarium, new tests reveal a mis...

Korean Panorama

• PARK Chan-Wook
• Korea
• 1997
• 102min

With violence and humor, sex and gamling, seriousness and parody, this film is a text of confusion and violation. The audience is constantly caught by surprise, leaving no room for self-reflection. The two things that the incompet...

Wide Angle

• Qian Yun,Ma Ke Quang
• China
• 1997
• 10min

An interesting cartoon animation about a game played to guess how twelve mosquitoes can bite five men.

Wide Angle

• Kim Sung Soo
• Korea
• 1997
• 14min

In a labyrinth-like underground passage， a series of events take place. Black and white images and minimal sound represent the alienated state of this underground site. This is a film about sound. Images of thousands of legs pass...

World Cinema

• Manuel Poirier
• France
• 1997
• 135min

"I wanted to shoot the story of Paco and Nino in Brittany and in cinemascope. The idea behind this film had been in my mind for some years. Two young strangers, very different from each other, in their personalities but also in th...