Special Programs in Focus

• Vietnam
• 1999
• 95min

Like most countries that lived through the tragedy of war, Vietnam too has made numerous films dealing with the pains of war. Among the list, Dang Nhat Minh′s When the Tenth Month Comes is regarded as one of best films on this sub...

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• Korea
• 1999
• 105min

This is one of a handful comedies Yu Hyun-Mok has directed in his career, enabling us to examine his cinematic world from another point of view. Three generations of the Gong family′s battle of the sexes are depicted. Not having ...

Special Programs in Focus

• India
• 1999
• 122min

Calcutta of the 1950s. Turned into refugees by the partition of Bengal after independence in 1951, a middle class family lives a precarious existence. The eldest daughter, Nita, is the only real breadwinner. Her elder brother, Sha...

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• India
• 1999
• 115min

A village in bengal, 1910. Harihar is a priest who barely earns enough for his wife Sarbojaya, six year old daughter Durga, and little son Apu,and the old aunt who lives with them. He is a poet and a dreamer who is often away from...

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• Korea
• 1999
• 109min

This is a tale of two generations of a family that lived during the Japanese colonization era. We see the loves and tragedies of a girl with a modern education, her three sisters with problems of their own, a self-sacrificing mot...

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• China
• 1999
• 80min

Dong (′Winter′) and Chun (′Spring′) are a couple on the verge of splitting up. Their life together has settled into a routine of passionless moments. Both are nominally teachers in the art college from which they graduated, but t...

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• Iran
• 1999
• 85min

Abbas Kiarostami made Where is the Friend＇s Home？about 12 years ago and film title＇s referred to a poem by the lranian contemporary poet, the late Sepehri, a perfect translation of the poem into film language. The film was firstly...

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• Philippines
• 1999
• 125min

Julio was a fisherman in the countryside, but he left home for Manila in search of his childhood sweetheart, Ligaya. He finds work under cruel conditions at a construction site, while continuing his search. One of his companions ...

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• Korea
• 1999
• 175min

Selected for this series by Lee Yong-Kwan and added to the programme by Kim Ji-Seok, Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? seems at first sight an anomalous choice for this context. Whereas the other films in the series make a ...

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• Taiwan
• 1999
• 137min

If Boys From Fengkuei is Hou Hsiao-Hsien′s most spontaneous film, then The Time to Live and The Time to Die is definitely his most personal one to date. It is an autobiographical film about growing up, but does not stop at that. T...