Korean Panorama

• LIM Jong-Jae
• Korea
• 1996
• 105 mins

Failing to adjust in America, Love ditches studying and joins the mafia. He returns to Seoul to deliver a mysterious suitcase. Awaiting further orders, he visits a nightclub and meets the dancer Juliette. At first sight, they fall...

World Cinema

• Mathieu KASSOVITZ
• France
• 1996
• 95 mins

A Jew, a black and an Arab at odds with the police live in a town near Paris. They have spent all night warring with the police. Why? Because a 16-year-old boy, Abdel Ichah, is at death′s door after having been beaten up by a poli...

World Cinema

• Theo ANGELOPOULOS
• Greece
• 1996
• 126 mins

Set in modern Greece, two solemn children, Voula and her brother Alexandros, embark on a harrowing, lyrical odyssey in search of the absent father they erroneously believe is "away" in Germany. Destitute but latched to their drea...

Special Programs

• Walter HILL
• United States
• 1996
• 100 mins

Set in the Texas border town of Jericho at the height of America′s turbulent prohibition era, this action-adventure drama is based on Akira Kurosawa′s classic samurai epic, (1961). A mysterious gun-for-hire wanders into a small ...

Korean Panorama

• BAE Chang-Ho
• Korea
• 1996
• 111 mins

One summer day, Soo-In, an interior decorator, meets an old bachelor movie director, Sung-Woo, at the flea market. Instantly drawn together, they begin seeing each other daily. Anally neat Soo-In and an equally messy Sung-Woo face...

Wide Angle

• KWAK Kyung-Taek
• Korea
• 1996
• 22 mins. 27s

Private Kang-Hun spends his last days before being released guarding the main gate. He sees Cheon Suk-Ho imprisoned, charged with destroying family life. Kanghun sees Cheon as a heinous villain until the day he drags Cheon to the ...

Wide Angle

• Ritaban GHATAK
• India
• 1996
• 54 mins

For over a decade, director Ritaban Ghatak extensively researched and compared the life and rituals of the Munda tribe in Chhotanagpur and the Bauls of Bengal, under the guidance of Sanathan Das Baul. While learning the process ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• ADOOR Gopalakrishnan
• India
• 1996
• 107 mins

Kunjunni is the man of the story. Entering college, communism is fashionable and he takes it up naturally. But he soon gets disgusted with the existing political parties and true to his convictions, he joins a Maoist faction. Kunj...

korean Retrospective

• IM Kwon-Taek
• Korea
• 1996
• 105 mins

Pobun, a Buddhist monk for 6 years, has not yet attained nirvana. Drenched with guilt, he assuages his conscience through ascetic self-regulation. Around this time, he encounters the unorthodox monk， Jisan. While traveling togeth...

New Currents

• Eric KHOO
• Singapore
• 1996
• 105 mins

The lonely and slow-witted mee pok man (noodle vendor) runs a late-night, fish-ball noodle stall in a notorious part of Singapore. Among his motley clientele is Bunny, a world-weary prostitute controlled by a villainous pimp. Me...