Wide Angle

• Japan
• 1997
• 53min

A personal documentary about the filmmaker’s 92 year-old grandmother. Takako Miura is 92 year-old and has lived alone since her husband died six years ago. She regards herself as the president of a radio station and is the announc...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1997
• 36min

This film speculates on the questions of life， and is a daydream of the road. The boundary line between is the marvelous discordance of a hymn with narrative. We either laugh or feel serious， and the contradictions of the film ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1997
• 8min

Made by students of the Poland Public Circus Institute, this film captures the abstract and geometrical movement of objects. The camera focuses on life behind rather than on the stage. Cross editing between audience’s applause and...

Wide Angle

• Bangladesh,Australia
• 1997
• 52min

In Bangladesh, as in the rest of the world, many young women dream of becoming movie stars. But a woman in Bangladesh is caught in the contradiction of a patriachal Islamic society undergoing industrialisation and commercialisatio...

Wide Angle

• Brazil
• 1997
• 96min

Landscapes of Memory portrays the lives and mystical visions of the inhabitants of the Sertao (arid backlands) of Northeastern Brazil. Life for the Sertanejo is transformed into a pilgrimage between many spaces: from the exterior,...

Wide Angle

• Cambodia
• 1997
• 30min

This is a documentary about a certain woman, who comes back to her native country, Cambodia, after having lived in a camp in Thailand during the civil war, and then adapts herself to the life in Phnom Penh with her children. Like ...

Wide Angle

• Cambodia
• 1997
• 26min

In 1991, one soldier deserted from his ranks. He now lives with his wife and children in a town near Phnom Penh. He deplores the reality that only the poor go to war, and sons from rich families or high government official members...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 1997
• 118min

This documentary takes place in Belarush, In the area adjacent to where the Chernobyl disaster took place. Under lush natural conditions, the simple villagers grow potato and grain in their fields, in the ground that has been cont...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1997
• 29min

Truth is always relative. The three episodes presented in this film establish an aesthetic of irony. The tale of ‘the camel’ is a metaphor for our obsession with facts. What the director seems to suggest is a truth that goes beyon...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1997
• 70min

Conntinuing the saga of the women at the "House of Sharing," the film shifts location to Kwangju in Kyonggi Province. Sadness still prevails but life in the country provides these old women with a sense of composure. The director′...