A Window on Asian Cinema

• Yee Chung-Man
• Hong Kong
• 1998
• 85min

Roommates Chan and Yau share a fascination for women. It is love at first sight for Chan when Mok moves in below. But Yau and Mok argue frequently over her constant piano playing,

New Currents

• Subhash Agrawal
• India
• 1997
• 115min

Kishunsah is an elderly man who decides to divide his property among his sons when conflicts escalate within his extended family. Kishunsah goes to live with the youngest son, Rams...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Park Kwang-Choon
• Korea
• 1998
• 96min

First introduced as a series on the internet and then a best-selling novel of the same title, The Soul Guardians uses visual technology to depict the conflict between good and evil...

World Cinema

• Alain Berliner
• Belgium
• 1998
• 68min

December 30, 1999, Albert, 35 years old, runs a chips stand that is situated on the North and South border of the two conflicting communities of Brussels: the Flemish and the franc...

World Cinema

• Daniela Thomas,Walter Salles
• Brazil,France
• 1998
• 64min

Midnight, December 31, 1999, with the year 2000 fast approaching, a young man and a young woman come together on the roof of a building overlooking Copacabana beach. The man must m...

Wide Angle

• KIM Taeil
• Korea
• 1998
• 50min

This film aims to critique of the kind of reasoning at work within a society which is capable of cruelty and causes individual suffering. The atrocities of an era are detailed in t...

Wide Angle

• Hong Hyung-Sook
• Korea
• 1998
• 70min

There are people who have their real names and also another name by which they are known. This is the reality of Koreans who live in Japan. Many hidden stories exist, however, of p...

Wide Angle

• Jung Yoon-Chul
• Korea
• 1997
• 13min

This short film is a love letter to a dead person. On the way to school, one girl gets on a bus while the other remains behind. A momentary separation is transformed into an eterna...

Wide Angle

• Abdullah Alimorad
• Iran
• 1994
• 27min

An apprentice working for a coal seller works looks at a jeweller′s apprentice with envy, until one day...

World Cinema

• Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• Turkey
• 1997
• 85min

Seen through the eyes of two children and told in four parts running parallel to the four seasons, Kasaba tells of a Turkish family set in a mall town. The first part takes place i...