World Cinema

• Yesim Ustaoglu
• Turkey,the Netherlands,Germany
• 1999
• 104min

This tale of friendship and courage tracks a politically naive man′s initiation into the social realities of contemporary Turkey. When Mehmet is mistakenly identified as a Kurd by ...

Wide Angle

• Ziba Mirhosseini,Kim Longinotto
• Iran
• 1998
• 80min

Opening in the Family Law Courts, central Tehran, women here want divorces for various reasons. Their husbands are impotent, distrustful without explanation. restrictive, deceitful...

World Cinema

• Aki KAURISMAKI
• Finland
• 1999
• 78min

Literature is full of triangle dramas, but very few of them can beat Juhani Aho′s Juha(1911) for its deepness of emotions and understanding of all three parties. The story is strai...

Wide Angle

• Tae Junseek
• Korea
• 1999
• 45min

One Step at a Time begins with an interview of a woman who is chief of a labor union. What started out as a quiet voice gradually changes as a gang of tattooed hoodlums turns the l...

Wide Angle

• Kim Do Ryung,Yun-Hwa Baek
• Korea
• 1999
• 58min

Grandmother is only able to take her daughter, leaving her three sons in the North, on her escape to South Korea during the Korean War. Her lifelong wish is to see her sons again o...

Wide Angle

• Lim Chang-Jae
• Korea
• 1999
• 27min

A man finds love from a woman, and she dreams the extrication through him. Appearances of the world reflected in their eyes can be experienced through Im Chang-Jae′s [Aqua Requiem...

Wide Angle

• Yu Sang Kon
• Korea
• 1998
• 8min

Silence dominates one sunny day, as an old man rides his scooter with his ailing daughter on back up and down the slope. The daughter′s void glance seems precarious, as are her dan...

Korean Panorama

• LEE Jisang
• Korea
• 1999
• 79min

Director Lee Ji-Sang, who made a croquis-like first film in Yellow Flower(1998), delves into sexual themes once again. Lacking in the energy for formal destructiveness, A Sudden Cr...

Korean Panorama

• Park Kwang-Su
• Korea
• 1999
• 105min

The Uprising is Park Kwang-Su′s ambitious experiment on history and the cinema, deliberately reflecting the circumstances surrounding Korean cinema in the 1990s. In late 19th cent...

New Currents

• Pinyo Rutharm
• Thailand
• 1998
• 110min

Chompoo , Prim, Art, Foon, and Puen are university freshmen. Chompoo starts a diary as the five create a special friendship, avoiding the severe hazing that seniors traditionally i...