A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• Japan
• 1999
• 95min

In one′s ordinary life, absurdity and madness are always latent, seeking a moment to burst out. This informs Kiyoshi Kurosawa′s idea of ′abnormality in everyday life′. With its the...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Manop Udomdej
• Thailand
• 1999
• 110min

Lop Lamnarai, Nid Watsong, and Suan Sapaya work as gunmen and bodyguards to a tycoon named Big Loh. Each of them has his own unique character. Nid enjoys drugs and often tortures h...

Wide Angle

• Kim jin-han
• Korea
• 1999
• 24min

After the passing of grandmother, only the closet is left to occupy the small living area. Forced to abandon the house in what is labeled as a re-development region, everyone but t...

Wide Angle

• Djibril Diop Mambety
• Switzerland,France,Senegal
• 1999
• 45min

For a very long time, the hawkers who sold newspapers on the streets of Dakar were, without exception, all boys. But, this morning, their domination was challenged. What happened? ...

Wide Angle

• Kirsten Sheridan
• Ireland
• 1999
• 19min

Twelve-year old Tommy is unlike any other kid in town. He? habitually fixated on patterns - black and white tiled floors, a football, water spiraling down a drain - but any little ...

Wide Angle

• Keiko Ibi
• United States
• 1999
• 37min

On stage, a group of seniors perform their roles with energy and laughter. Off stage, they conduct their everyday lives alone in silence. The Personals follows a drama group of sen...

Wide Angle

• Sergey Ovtscharov
• Russia
• 1999
• 10min

The revitalized Egyptian frescoes tell about the everlasting relationship of Man and Women in a funny, erotic, philosophical, artistic and ironic way.
Viewers witness a new ge...

World Cinema

• Andreas Kleinert
• Germany
• 1999
• 98min

Walter used to be somebody, somebody with power and purpose, somebody driven by his conscience to do good and now, society tells him he′s no longer needed. In his mid-fifties, trap...

World Cinema

• Hilde Heier
• Norway
• 1999
• 97min

Siv lives for music and makes her living as a prompter at the Opera. Her entire lifework takes place in a box on the floor of the opera stage. Siv has never liked taking up much sp...

Special Programs in Focus

• Ritwik Ghatak
• India
• 1999
• 122min

Calcutta of the 1950s. Turned into refugees by the partition of Bengal after independence in 1951, a middle class family lives a precarious existence. The eldest daughter, Nita, is...