Retrospective Section

• Hong Kong
• 1997
• 98min

Set among the idyllic red and orange leaves of New York， Cheun Yuen-ting spins a warm fairytale about the unusual real-life adventures of his good friend “Boat Head.” Boat Head falls for a girl whose behavior and lifestyle are co...

Retrospective Section

• Hong Kong
• 1997
• 98min

Ann Hui’s autobiographical film. Hueyin returns to Hong Kong from England for her sister’s marriage. As she slowly opens up to her mother and starts to learn about her past， Hueyin begins to understand her mother

Retrospective Section

• Korea
• 1997
• 1min

The recording of Seoul circa 1940， featuring shots of Seoul Station and City Hall. Also shown are people engaged in their everyday activities， such as street merchants.

Retrospective Section

• China
• 1997
• 21min

The Ming Hsing film company was established in 1922 and produced comedies imitating the works of Chaplin. The Love of Labourors is a good representation of the comedies popular in 1920s China. Zheng who works as both carpenter and...

Retrospective Section

• Hong Kong
• 1997
• 100min

When Wang Yu′s films were no longer popular in korea, Bruce Lee was considered a new discovery, because Wang Yu′s popular films were about swordsmanship and his new works about marshal skills were less dynamic than Bruce Lee′s. Th...

Retrospective Section

• India
• 1997
• 3700ft

The first Indian Feature length film. Based on one of the Mahabharata legends， it is about king Harishandra’s devotion to truth for which he is prepared to sacrefice his kingdom.

Retrospective Section

• India
• 1997
• 7915 ft.

This film recounts the life of Marthanda Varma, the legendary founder of Travancore State and is the lone survivor of the relatively small but significant south Indian film industry.

Retrospective Section

• Switzerland
• 1997
• 75min

Shot from May to July 1996, six citizens look at Hong Kong before the handover. The anecdotes of a British civil servant, a South African Journalist, a Chinese musician, and an Indian businessman weave an account of an ambiguous ...

Retrospective Section

• India
• 1997
• 566ft

Drawn from one of the great treasuries of Hindu myth， the Vishnu Purana， this film tells the story of Prahlad’s unflinching devotion to the God Vishnu.

Retrospective Section

• India
• 1997
• 136 ft

Only a fragment of this documentary survives with fascinating glimpse of rural artisanal methods of making bricks.