Special Programs in Focus

• Hou Hsiao-Hsien
• Taiwan
• 1985
• 137min

If Boys From Fengkuei is Hou Hsiao-Hsien′s most spontaneous film, then The Time to Live and The Time to Die is definitely his most personal one to date. It is an autobiographical f...

Special Programs in Focus

• YU Hyun-Mok
• Korea
• 1979
• 114min

Upon its publication, Yoon Heung-Kil′s ′Rainy Days′ was heralded as one of the best novels ever written (published in Japanese as well) yet it is unlikely that many will give such ...

Special Programs in Focus

• YU Hyun-Mok
• Korea
• 1967
• 104min

One common trait in Yu Hyun-Mok′s cinema is his refusal to incorporate the Hollywood-style convention of a single hero. Such a notion is evident in An Aimless Bullet, Daughters of ...

World Cinema

• Bruno DUMONT
• France
• 1999
• 148min

The portrait of Pharaoh de Winter, a 30-something loner who is as humble as the earth he so profoundly appreciates. A simple man, but not a simpleton, Pharaoh is a small-town polic...

World Cinema

• Janez Burger
• Slovenia
• 1999
• 90min

Dizzy enjoys his routine student life in his dorm room: boozing, snoozing, and watching TV. His well-being depends on Evica, who seems to be in love with him, but Dizzy fails to no...

Wide Angle

• Mehreen Jabbar
• Pakistan
• 1999
• 19min

Four different episodes show how various women assert their suppressed desires through the emotional and physical masks forced upon them. Some episodes capture the subtle tensions ...

World Cinema

• Bertrand Tavernier
• France
• 1998
• 117min

Daniel Lefebvre is the director of a kindergarten in Hernaing, near Valenciennes, in the north of France. A miner′s son, he is passionate about teaching in a region that was once p...

Wide Angle

• LEE Sang-il
• Japan
• 1999
• 54min

Chung tells the story of one Korean immigrant boy growing up in Japan. Tesong, the main character, goes to a high school for Korean immigrants. His baseball team qualifies to parti...

World Cinema

• Didi Danquart
• Germany
• 1999
• 95min

The year is 1935, in a valley in the Black Forest. The cattle dealer Levi comes, like every year, into the valley to conduct his business. Levi has decided to win the hand and hear...

Wide Angle

• ZHANG Yuan
• China
• 1999
• 90min

This feature-length documentary is by Zhang Yuan, a key leader of the ′Tiananmen Generation′ and the establishment of a world-wide reputation for Chinese cinema. Zhang′s latest eff...