Opening Film

• LEE Chang-dong
• Korea
• 1999
• 135min

This year′s festival headlines the celebration of Asian cinema, with Korean entry [Peppermint Candy] as its curtain raiser. Lee Chang-dong, whose acclaimed [Green Fish] exposed ess...

Closing Film

• ZHANG Yimou
• China
• 1999
• 100min

Peasant director Zhang Yimou returns to the country. And this time he examines the educational system of rural China through the eyes of a 13 year old substitute teacher. In many w...

Korean Panorama

• Cho Moon-Jin
• Korea
• 1999
• 90min

Veteran director Cho Moon-Jin confronts the pain of modern Korean history through the story of a dispersed family. In 1980, a North Korean soldier crosses the DMZ to seek his fathe...

Korean Panorama

• Lee Myung-Sae
• Korea
• 1999
• 110min

A man commits a coldhearted killing Yet the backdrop to this bloody ′Forty-step Murder′ is a peaceful scene with a passing girl, A group of detectives hide out to trap the brutal c...

World Cinema

• Soren Kragh-Jacobsen
• Denmark,Sweden
• 1999
• 98min

Kresten just got married to the girl of his dreams. A pleasant, carefree life and hopes of becoming a successful businessman in Amsterdam are within his reach. But one day, in the ...

World Cinema

• Andreas DRESEN
• Germany
• 1999
• 104min

The Pope is in town and the night of his stay is anything but heavenly for some of Berlin′s inhabitants. When the homeless Hanna finds 100 German marks, she and her friend Victor w...

Wide Angle

• Foad Afravi
• Iran
• 1999
• 15min

North of Iran: Air of Orangery depicts the particular unity of man and nature in the rural life. A gardener takes care of his orchard and his animals as though they are his childre...

Wide Angle

• Biju Viswanath
• India
• 1999
• 15min

This film has no dialogue or commentary, only music and sound effects. A Voyage is a tribute to the renowned Indian writer/film maker M.T. Vasudevan Nair, portraying his boyhood ...

Wide Angle

• Paul Driessen
• Netherlands
• 1999
• 11min

High up in his top-floor apartment a tenant sees a woman falling off the roof of the building opposite. Far away in the prairies a cowboy hears cries for help from a woman tied dow...

Wide Angle

• Gulya Mirzoeva
• France,Germany
• 1999
• 88min

Beyond the Forest invites us to a very strange village; Tasavlu, a small Turkish village. There is nothing special happening here. Nomads from Central Asia came here long ago, and ...