Special Programs in Focus

• YU Hyun-Mok
• Korea
• 1999
• 108min

This masterpiece is also Yu Hyun-mok′s breakthrough film. Through a struggling family living a destitute life, he reveals the difficulties of postwar Korean society. Such is the pi...

Wide Angle

• SONG Il-gon
• Korea
• 1999
• 14min

Some poets live their lives as a picnic; here we find a family going on a picnic for their demise. The obvious nature of their trip approaches with extreme strain on the viewers, w...

World Cinema

• Patrice LECONTE
• France
• 1999
• 90min

A night on a Parisian bridge. A young woman, eyes filled with tears, climbs over a fence to jump into the Seine river. From behind, she suddenly hears someone say. "It looks as if ...

Wide Angle

• LI Ying
• Japan
• 1999
• 67min

2H starts on a subway train that runs into an accident. The film then follows an image of the lean hand of an old man over ninety. Director, Li Ying tries to talk to us through the...

Open Cinema

• Kang Jacky
• Korea
• 1999
• 128min

Sinking the domestic box office record set by Titanic,Shiri is a prime example of the commercial trends dominating Korean cinema today. Kang Je-Gyu＇s ‘New Alternative Plan’blends t...

Wide Angle

• Kim jin-sung
• Korea
• 1999
• 19min

People look at the world from the realms of their own experience with a subjective point of view Where Have You Been? is a tale of subversion in a small but personal world. There a...

Wide Angle

• Yeum Jeong-Seok
• Korea
• 1999
• 8min

A man walks a tightrope for money to extend his sister′s life, but she wishes for death, tired of fighting disease. One wonders at the significance of his stunt. He once again atte...

Special Programs in Focus

• YU Hyun-Mok
• Korea
• 1999
• 105min

This is one of a handful comedies Yu Hyun-Mok has directed in his career, enabling us to examine his cinematic world from another point of view. Three generations of the Gong famil...

Special Programs in Focus

• Mizoguchi Kenji
• Japan
• 1999
• 97min

Ugetsu Story made Mizoguchi visible in the Western film scene, winning the Silver Lion and Italian Critics′ Award at the Venice Film Festival in 1953. Yoshikata Yoda and Matsutaro ...

Special Programs in Focus

• YU Hyun-Mok
• Korea
• 1999
• 110min

Yu Hyun-Mok′s view of human salvation is bound to feature some form of religious concept.Not because he was a member of a certain religious sector, but because religion is somethin...