Wide Angle

• Lim Chang-Jae
• Korea
• 1998
• 21min

Alone and pregnant, and without hope or anybody to rely on, she imagines throwing her baby into a river, and then suffers from feelings of guilt. No longer able to bear her pain, s...

Wide Angle

• Huh Eun-Kwang
• Korea
• 1998
• 67min

This film is a visual chronicle of the year-long fight of Sammi Special Steel workers for employment security. In December 1996, the Korean government rushed through a new labor bi...

Wide Angle

• Oh Jung-Hun
• Korea
• 1997
• 72min

"Han in hand, the world becomes one/ for an exciting new day/ we will tear down/ that sweet fantasy/ that stands in our way." What is the process by which an individual makes a mar...

Wide Angle

• Cho Eun-Ryung
• Korea
• 1997
• 10min

We see vague memories through the eyes of a young girl - the scars of youth - as she encounters uncertain emotions. Bo-Young, who lives in the countryside, encounters an unfamiliar...

Wide Angle

• Lee Goung-Hee
• Korea
• 1997
• 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 wh...

Wide Angle

• Lin Jun-Hong
• Taiwan
• 1997
• 3min

The family is usually the smallest, earliest social unit an individual comes into contact with.

Wide Angle

• Yu Sang-Gon
• Korea
• 1997
• 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 ca...

Wide Angle

• Lee Hyung-Joo
• Korea
• 1998
• 30min

A house-husband goes through his daily chores with a kind of grace, even taking a break to chew on a hot pepper in solitude. Although uncomfortable with bringing the laundry in or ...

New Currents

• JIA Zhangke
• China
• 1997
• 107min

By far the most interesting film from China this year, Xiao Wu starts out looking like an exercise in grungy social realism but gradually reveals itself to be something much more s...

• 수상내역 98 베를린영화제 국제포럼 부문 볼프강 슈타우트상, NETPAC상 수상

A Window on Asian Cinema

• LIN Cheng-Sheng
• Taiwan,Japan
• 1997
• 118min

Alienation and anxiety seem to take on special meaning as director Lin Cheng-Sheng follows Edward Yang and Tsai Ming-Liang around the streets of Taipei. Lin′s Taipei is a dark and ...