Wide Angle

• Keiko UTAGAWA,Atsuko MUROBUSHI
• Japan
• 1995
• 21 mins

In a city where fat women set the beauty criterion, fat Fujiko is flattered everyday. One day on the beach, she tries to look her best, but nothing goes her way.

Wide Angle

• Tomoyuki FURUMAYA
• Japan
• 1993
• 29 mins

A girl′s backpack is stolen by the neighborhood delinquent and a chase ensues. The girl and her friends run after the thief, but he is always one step ahead.

Wide Angle

• Dick WONG
• Hong Kong
• 1995
• 5 mins

Director′s comment
The strong overpowers the weak, the plenty overwhelms the few, such that the weak cannot speak it’s mind and exert its will...

Wide Angle

• HONG Hyoung-Sook
• Korea
• 1995
• 70 mins

In 1993, an executive member on the board of education decided the number of students was too small compared to other schools and closed down Doomealee Elementary School in Kyonggi...

Wide Angle

• JANG Sun-Woo
• Korea
• 1995
• 52 mins

A personal essay on Korean Cinema. This documentary discerns the intimate connection between modern Korean history and the development of Korean cinema. Director Jang Sun-Woo untan...

New Currents

• KIM Eung-Soo
• Korea
• 1996
• 88 mins

Two days before the New Year, eight Korean friends get together in a villa near Moscow. Ten years ago, they had been student activists in Seoul during the politically violent 1980′...

Wide Angle

• MOON Won-Leep
• Korea
• 1995
• 7 mins

This short piece exposes modern life in Seoul by documenting ordinary life on Seoul′s subway. The routine becomes striking in tis commonness, leading audiences to see anew images t...

Wide Angle

• YOO Sang-Gon
• Korea
• 1996
• 10 mins

A man on a ragged raft drifts on a boundless ocean. With other rafts and boats just passing by, he gets accustomed to repeated despair. When an old dying man drifts toward the drif...

Wide Angle

• JUNG Dong-Hee
• Korea
• 1996
• 6 mins

A group of matches are bundled together in a very limited space. They try to cover whatever space they can. They can only be more spacious when a another member leaves. The last m...

Wide Angle

• CHUN Seung-Il
• Korea
• 1995
• 4 mins

The unique nature of human kind cannot be found in animals or inorganic matter. Human nature manifests in love and peace, but in conflict and war as well, causing both progress and...