A Window on Asian Cinema

• Shaji KARUN
• India
• 1999
• 119min

The film centers on characters who seek fiction for their ideals and love, yet suffer from it. Set in southern India in 1930s, the film depicts the love and the despair of a master...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Chito S. ROÑO
• Philippines
• 1999
• 109min

Is becoming a good mother totally different from becoming a woman of respect? In a patriarchal society, the answer may be yes. In Lea′s Story, Lea raises objection to this idea. Le...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Nonzee NIMIBUTR
• Thailand
• 1999
• 100min

Thai cinema at the brink of the 21st century is going through dramatic changes. With only one 1997 film Dang Bireley and Young Gangsters to his profile, newcomer Nonzee Nimibutr′s ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Fruit CHAN
• Hong Kong,China
• 1999
• 128min

Splendid fireworks lit up the skies of Hong Kong in 1997. Fruit Chan′s The Longest Summer is a story of the misfits of society who felt confusion, isolation, and despair in the num...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Chen Kuo-Fu
• Taiwan
• 1999
• 104min

Shown at the Cannes Film Festival this vear, The Personals tells of a woman who gets a new view of life from escaping her own past, with a serene and silent voice which is at the s...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• ZHANG Yuan
• China
• 1999
• 90min

Liu Li and Xiao Hong are stepsisters. They go to the same high school and sleep in the same room. Both are pretty, but there is intense rivalry between the two. Liu Li spends time ...

Wide Angle

• Dariusz Jablonski
• Poland
• 1999
• 78min

In 1987, in a Viennese antique shop, a few hundred colour slides from World War II were found. As it turns out, they had been made in the Lodz Ghetto by the Ghetto′s chief accounta...

Wide Angle

• Paul Rosdy,Joan Grossman
• Austria,United States
• 1999
• 79min

The Port of Last Resort follows the emigration of four former refugees-Fred Fields, Ernest Heppner, illo Heppner, and Siegmar Simon-who fled to Shanghai, a ′last resort′ for most r...

Wide Angle

• Emily Young
• UK,Czech Republic
• 1999
• 17min

Laura has taken a school skirt on credit from the second hand uniform sale, but doesn? have the money to pay for it. Determined to resolve the problem by herself the next day at sc...

Wide Angle

• Wendy Tilby/Armanda Forbis
• Canada
• 1999
• 9.5min

After witnessing the accidental death of a stranger, Ruby seeks affirmation in the city around her, and finds it in surprising places. With deft humour and finely rendered detail, ...