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...

New Currents

• Kim Kuk-Hyung
• Korea
• 1999
• 94min

Korean cinema of the late 1990′s often transposes our uncertain present into the past, seeking to discover its link to our everyday life. Based on a novel by Choi In-Ho, Black Hole...

New Currents

• Pinyo Rutharm
• Thailand
• 1998
• 110min

Chompoo , Prim, Art, Foon, and Puen are university freshmen. Chompoo starts a diary as the five create a special friendship, avoiding the severe hazing that seniors traditionally i...

New Currents

• Marselli Sumarno
• Indonesia
• 1999
• 102min

Sri is a young girl from a coastal village married to an old Javanese nobleman, Hendro. Sri is still but Hendro is in his seventies. They have a child, Aji, and live in a tradition...

New Currents

• Ikehata Shunsaku
• Japan
• 1999
• 122min

Sixty-four-year old Mano, retired after serving 40 years as a firefighter, is a lonely old man. His wife has been admitted to a psychiatric ward, his son is separated from his wife...

New Currents

• Khyentse NORBU
• Bhutan,Australia
• 1999
• 93min

What happens when a Tibetan Buddhist monk leaves his home in the deep mountains of the Himalayas and encounters the outside world? The Cup takes a heartwarming approach to this qu...

New Currents

• Liu Bing Jian
• China
• 1999
• 90min

Despite their feelings, people often suppress their sexual orientation, either due to their own unawareness or due to the moral values of the society they live in. Men and Women ar...

New Currents

• Linton Semage
• SriLanka
• 1999
• 72min

A film about a love affair between a widower and a married woman leads us to expect a bittersweet or tragic romance. Director Linton Semage may not actually stray from this typical...