A Window on Asian Cinema

• Ichigawa Jun
• Japan
• 1999
• 119min

Jun Ichigawa has been involved in both films and commercials for years. Contrary to his commercials that are very perceptive of the changing tastes of people, his films depict, in ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Furuhata Yasuo
• Japan
• 1999
• 112min

This sad, beautiful, and deeply moving film allows us to appreciate the transience of life, by portraying the affection between a dead daughter and her living father. Otomatsu is ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Ali-Reza Davudnezhad
• Iran
• 1999
• 89min

A boy and a girl, betrothed since childhood, are still fond of each other as they pass through adolescence. Their families, however, now have other plans for their children, and tr...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Abbas KIAROSTAMI
• Iran
• 1999
• 118min

Abbas Kiarostami presents a man whose interest in death turns into an epiphany that reveals the value of life and nature. A group of reporters from Tehran arrive in a small Kurdis...

New Currents

• Kim Kuk-Hyung
• Korea
• 1999
• 94min

Korean cinema of the late 1990′s often transposes our uncertain present into the past, seeking to discover its link to our everyday life. Based on a novel by Choi In-Ho, Black Hole...

Special Programs in Focus

• Garin Nugroho
• Indonesia
• 1998
• 82min

The film that launched a new realism in Indonesian cinema. In 1995, director Garin made Kancil′s Tale of Freedom, a documentary about the life of kids on the streets of Jogjakarta....

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• Satyajit Ray
• India
• 1955
• 115min

A village in bengal, 1910. Harihar is a priest who barely earns enough for his wife Sarbojaya, six year old daughter Durga, and little son Apu,and the old aunt who lives with them....

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• YU Hyun-Mok
• Korea
• 1965
• 124min

Martyr is a screen adaptation of Korean-American Kim Eun-Kuk (Richard Kim)′s novel on the Korean War and religion. As the war was winding down, most civilians felt perplexed, espe...

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• Kurosawa Akira
• Japan
• 1950
• 87min

W inning the Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival in 1951, Rashomon became the first Japanese film to attract international attention. Ironically, however, it was a total flop in Ja...

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• Ermek SHINARBAYEV
• Kazakhstan
• 1989
• 100min

The notion that ′being′ only begins at the moment when it is endangered by ′not being,′ is illustrated at the beginning of the film by a Korean legend, and then by a story from the...