World Cinema

• Yvan Le Moine
• Belgium
• 1998
• 102min

Inspired by Michel Tournier′s short story, "Le Coq de Bruyere," Yvan Le moine′s feature debut somehow recalls Kafka from the onset of the film. Whether this can be related to Soder...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Abolfazl Jalili
• Iran
• 1998
• 90min

It is impressive to see in this film the smile of the Iranian boy, Farhad, who is too young to know what despair means. This film doesn`t present a world shown through children`s h...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Stanley Kwan
• Hong Kong
• 1998
• 93min

Stanley Kwan′s first feature since he came out as gay in his documentary Yang +-Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema is a piercing account of love in a time of uncertainty - the time in q...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Marilou Diaz-Abaya
• Philippines
• 1998
• 114min

In a remote fishing village in the 1950’s, Pepito, son of the island’s only midwife, grows up learning his mother’s trade. As he grows older, he becomes uncomfortable with this tra...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iwai Shunji
• Japan
• 1998
• 67min

Within the bleak confines of the city, director Iwai Shunji discovers a serene beauty, like cherry blossoms blowing in the wind, which he presents in this contemporary urban fairy ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Rithy Panh
• Cambodia,France
• 1998
• 108min

A large part of Savannah? family was exterminated by the Pol Pot regime. He now lives in the miserable, overcrowded capital scarred by war. In spite of the horrors he has seen, he ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hu Bingliu
• China
• 1997
• 102min

Granny Ah Xi lives a solitary existence and is becoming increasingly more erratic. Two helpers leave in frustration. Then a third girl comes to work and the two develop a sincere f...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Mingliang Tsai
• Taiwan
• 1998
• 93min

It is seven days to the 21st century and endless rains wreak havoc. With the onset of an epidemic, the government orders tenants to move out. Residents refuse despite utilities bei...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Tsukamoto Shinya
• Japan
• 1998
• 90min

Tsukamoto Shinya`s fame - in Japan and the rest of the world - began with his 16mm feature Tetsuo, an extremist cyberpunk fantasy in which an ordinary man hit by a car finds his fl...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Huang Jian Xin
• China
• 1998
• 102min

Through no fault of his own, things go terribly wrong for an innocent cop. Wu Jitang works at a local police station, often going above and beyond the call of duty to help those wh...