A Window on Asian Cinema

• Chen Kaige
• China
• 1999
• 126min

Special Programs in Focus

• Bae Yong-Kyun
• Korea
• 1999
• 175min

Selected for this series by Lee Yong-Kwan and added to the programme by Kim Ji-Seok, Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? seems at first sight an anomalous choice for this conte...

Special Programs in Focus

• Chen Kaige
• China
• 1999
• 89min

Although The One and the Eight by Zhang Junzhao (photographed with astounding originality by Zhang Yimou) was the first real major work of the modern Chinese cinema that we conveni...

Special Programs in Focus

• Raymond RED
• Philippines
• 1999
• 23,15,25,16,10min

Raymond Reds＇s early short films are not only amongst the very best films ever made in the Philippines but also some of the most original and allusive shorts in film history. Reds＇...

Special Programs in Focus

• Lino BROCKA
• Philippines
• 1999
• 125min

Julio was a fisherman in the countryside, but he left home for Manila in search of his childhood sweetheart, Ligaya. He finds work under cruel conditions at a construction site, w...

Open Cinema

• Michel OCELOT
• France
• 1999
• 71min

Opnce upon a time,in a small villiage,somewhere in Africa... A little voice is heaard from inside the womb of a pregnant women:＂Mother,give birth to me!＂＂A child who can speak fro...

Open Cinema

• MIYAZAKI Hayao
• Japan
• 1999
• 133min

Providing the grandiose spectacle of war between a human civilization which threatens nature and the outraged divinities(Mononoke),Hayal Miyazaki＇s masterpiece Mononoke Hime became...

New Currents

• YU Lik Wai
• Hong Kong,China
• 1999
• 109min

It is 1997, after the handover. Hong-Kong may still be a land of opportunity for mainland Chinese yet for many it remains a place of hardship. For the talented cinemtographer Yu Li...

New Currents

• Cheng WenTang
• Taiwan
• 1999
• 52min

Taiwan, an island too small to carry such pain. Director Cheng Wen-Tang tells the sad story of the natives, long hidden in the shadows of Taiwan′s modern history. He comes to under...

New Currents

• Hiroshi Okuhara
• Japan
• 1999
• 95min

The ′other′ always speaks in a strange language. It is only when the meaning penetrates our heart that we respond to each other′s voices. It is this moment that signals the start o...