New Currents

• YIM Soon-Rye
• Korea
• 1996
• 93 mins

Independent, Fatso and Petal are three best friends who have failed the all-important college entrance exam. Lacking ambition and talent, these three are members of Korea′s Generation X, consuming away their youth in postmodern de...

Korean Panorama

• OH Byung-Chul
• Korea
• 1996
• 110 mins

Independent, smart and sassy classmates Hye-Wan, Kyung-Hae and Young-Sun are close friends who graduate college and pursue married life. Hye-Wan is a writer who loses her child, divorces, and agonizes between new independence and ...

korean Retrospective

• PARK Chul-Soo
• Korea
• 1996
• 97 mins

Recent divorcee Song-Hee moves into number 301 of the "New Hope Bio Apartment." A fantastic chef, she gained weight cooking and then finishing the elaborate meals that helped trigger her divorce. She befriends the woman in number ...

New Currents

• KIM Eung-Soo
• Korea
• 1996
• 88 mins

Two days before the New Year, eight Korean friends get together in a villa near Moscow. Ten years ago, they had been student activists in Seoul during the politically violent 1980′s, committed to the movement and to each other. Th...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• TSUKAMOTO Shinya
• Japan
• 1996
• 87 mins

In this dark and terrifying, absurd and poignant, psycho-sexual drama, violence, desire and memory collide through a haunting love triangle. Tsuda, a life insurance dealer, leads a mundane life with his cool and somewhat eccentric...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Sylvia CHANG
• Taiwan
• 1996
• 120 mins

It all starts on Mr. Chen′s 60th birthday. To a semi-retired dentist, still physically fit and full of charisma, reaching sixty is not the best of news. His wife constantly says he is now an old man; his daughter′s boyfriend keeps...

Wide Angle

• Juan PULA
• Philippines
• 1996
• 10 mins. 50s

A young boy from the backcountry goes to the city for the first time and learns about the urban life through the characters he encounters inside jeepney.

Wide Angle

• Tengai AMANO
• Japan
• 1996
• 33 mins

Toya will not accept his "death" obediently. Restless, he wanders the alleys narrowly existing between this and another world.

World Cinema

• Theo ANGELOPOULOS
• Greece,France,Italy
• 1996
• 180 mins

A, a Greek filmmaker exiled to the U.S., returns to his native town for a screening of one of his extremely controversial films. But A′s real interest lies elsewhere - the mythical reels shot by the Manakias brothers who, at the o...

Wide Angle

• CHUNG Won-Gu
• Korea
• 1996
• 19 mins. 30s

On the wall of a squalid slum-apartment ,to be torn down for redevelopment, is a mural picturing a beautiful, modern world. A working-class man views this mural and dreams that dream, but faced against his harsh and deplorable lif...