New Currents

• India
• 1996
• 130 mins

Nationally acclaimed dancer Sarojini and her daughter Aditi confront the distance amassed between them. Sarojini is enveloped in her art while Aditi sees herself as irrelevant in her mother′s world. Through flashbacks, the film ...

New Currents

• Singapore
• 1996
• 105 mins

The lonely and slow-witted mee pok man (noodle vendor) runs a late-night, fish-ball noodle stall in a notorious part of Singapore. Among his motley clientele is Bunny, a world-weary prostitute controlled by a villainous pimp. Me...

New Currents

• Taiwan
• 1996
• 126 mins

In the late Ching Dynasty, political corruption and natural disasters plagued the land. The government sets up reservations in remote wastelands to put away the hungry and wandering people caught between uprising forces, religious...

New Currents

• Korea
• 1996
• 93 mins

Independent, Fatso and Petal are three best friends who have failed the all-important college entrance exam. Lacking ambition and talent, these three are members of Korea′s Generation X, consuming away their youth in postmodern de...

New Currents

• Korea
• 1996
• 88 mins

Two days before the New Year, eight Korean friends get together in a villa near Moscow. Ten years ago, they had been student activists in Seoul during the politically violent 1980′s, committed to the movement and to each other. Th...

New Currents

• Taiwan
• 1996
• 98 mins

Ah-Chung lives with his dysfunctional family in a shanty town next to a wildlife reservation zone. His mentally ill brother almost gets knocked over by a truck intended to illegally dump waste there. To appease the gods and to rid...

New Currents

• Iran
• 1996
• 90 mins

This film depicts the events that occur during a banquet. The hosts are a married couple who have experienced many vicissitudes of life. They have endured the bitterness of life and have also exulted in its joys. The guests, who a...

New Currents

• SriLanka
• 1996
• 82 mins

Suwisal is a successful, middle-aged supervisor with a melancholic personality and a penchant for forgetfulness. His fiancee reminds him daily of appointments, special occasions and routine things， but he is a reluctant husband-t...

New Currents

• Japan
• 1996
• 99 mins

Takashi, a teacher at a cram school, work from evening to late at night seven days a week. Blinded by his workaholic ethic, he fails to notice the anxiety developing within his wife, Yuriko. She works at home, alone, as an audio t...

New Currents

• Korea
• 1996
• 115 mins

A 33-year-old monk enters a barren wasteland, a conceptual utopia called "Yuri". To signal his rebirth, he denudes himself and pursues an unusual study of death for forty days. Brutally killing his teacher and a one-eyed monk out ...