Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 1998
• 59min

Hong Meiyu is introduced to her husband by local fisherman. This documentary begins with Hong Meiyu leaving her ancestral home, Kinmen, a seashore village in China, for her marital home on a Taiwanese island. Although Kinmen is vi...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1998
• 50min

This film aims to critique of the kind of reasoning at work within a society which is capable of cruelty and causes individual suffering. The atrocities of an era are detailed in this espose that looks at the two espionage set-ups...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1998
• 22min

Shot in Poland, the film raises existential questions about the nature of life and death in a variation of the story of Cain and Abel. Cain takes Abel′s liver from his almost-dead body, which lies in a public execution spot, putti...

Wide Angle

• Mongolia,Belgium
• 1998
• 91min

"A dog who dies/and who knows/that he dies like a dog/and who can say/that he knows/that he dies like a dog/is a man." (Erich Fried) State of Dogs is the retelling of a Mongolian parable about a stray dog who doesn′t want to beco...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1998
• 13.3 min

A woman delightfully receives a rose and a mirror from her man. Gradually the mirror becomes an oppressive presence, forcing her to conform, and becomes identified withe the man who dominates her, requiring her to adorn herself fo...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 1998
• 18min

A bird suffering in the snow longs for the comfort of a cage has its wish fulfilled but at winter end, it hears the gay sounds of birds ready to celebrate spring.

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1998
• 13min

This short film is a love letter to a dead person. On the way to school, one girl gets on a bus while the other remains behind. A momentary separation is transformed into an eternal separation. A shameful and shocking photo is sti...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1998
• 18min

An isolated fishing village in winter. A woman lives alone in a store near the railroad. A younger woman has given up hope of receiving phone calls and is always the one to make calls. This is where the two lives intersect, when t...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 1998
• 10min

The wise citizens of two villages stand in opposition when their king prepare for war over a trivial matter, and peace returns to the village.

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 1998
• 4min

Two episodes from a series that satircally presents moral commentary on human situations.