World Cinema

• SlovakRepublic
• 1997
• 105min

Tereza， a sixteen year old girl， is highly imaginative and spontaneously playful. One day she has to leave the institution where she learned to be a seamstress. She loses her feeling of security as she leaves a world where she u...

World Cinema

• Belgium,France,UK
• 1997
• 88min

Ma Vie en Rose is a film about difference. Ludovic is a little boy who dreams of being a little girl. What seems normal to him doesn’t seem that way to other people. It is also a film about a mother and father who don′t know how t...

World Cinema

• the Netherlands
• 1997
• 103min

The story starts with Cremer, a stylist of deviant sexuality, who designs a floral pattern on a blue background. When Loohman, owner of a textile factory, decides to produce the fabric, he starts a fight with Van Tilt, his artisti...

World Cinema

• United States
• 1997
• 93min

Madeleine, a middle-aged English actress, is locked in a struggle with her American husband over their adopted daughter. He career is at an impasse and her marriage is ending. Meanwhile, Oliver, a downsized IBM executive, is livin...

World Cinema

• Palestine,France
• 1997
• 88min

After living in New York for many years, the Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman returned to Israel for the making of this film. He used his privileged position as half insider and half outsider to analyze how much the Arab popul...

World Cinema

• Belgium,France,Luxembourg
• 1997
• 93min

The adolescent Igor helps his father， Roger， run an illegal immigrant labor ring in Belgium. He loses his innocence when Roger leaves Hamidou， an African immigrant， to die after an accident. Before he dies， Hamidou asks Igor ...

World Cinema

• UK
• 1997
• 111min

In 1981, twenty-one Irish mothers faced the dilemma of watching their sons starve themselves to death for their political beliefs. Some Mother′s Son tells the story of two such mothers, Kathleen Quigley and Annie Higgins, ordinary...

World Cinema

• Russia,Germany
• 1997
• 79min

Mother and Son is the story of the deep bond between a mother and her son. As the last two inhabitants of an empty village， the son nurses his mother through her last days. The striking landscape in which they live has a sad beau...

World Cinema

• Sweden,Norway,Denmark,Finland,Iceland
• 1997
• 166min

Bill August′s adaptation of Selma Lagerlof′s emigration epic, Jerusalem, is a fateful and magnificent chronicle of love and religious fanaticism. The Ingmarssons have governed their parish for generation when one day Ingmar sen...

World Cinema

• France
• 1997
• 135min

"I wanted to shoot the story of Paco and Nino in Brittany and in cinemascope. The idea behind this film had been in my mind for some years. Two young strangers, very different from each other, in their personalities but also in th...