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A Window on Asian Cinema
Killer- Darezhan Omirbaev
- Kazakhstan,France
- 1998
- 80min
Marat is a personal driver in Almaty, capital of Kazakhstan. When he hits a Mercedes, the nightmare begins. The loan he gets to pay for damages puts him at the mercy of a Mafia bos...
A Window on Asian Cinema
The Goofball- Sakamoto Junji
- Japan
- 1998
- 91min
The appeal of a film lies at the most basic level: Not in elaborate camerawork or in the beauty of the images, but in the essence of the story. After his first feature, Knock Out, ...
A Window on Asian Cinema
The Little Man- Ebrahim Foruzesh
- Iran
- 1998
- 85min
In the absence of a father, the eldest son tries to contribute to the impoverished family income. Only eleven years old, his clandestine efforts to earn money lead to a poor perfor...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Expect the Unexpected- Patrick Yau
- Hong Kong
- 1998
- 87min
A jewelry store heist staged by a band of inexperienced Hong Kong holdup artists goes badly wrong, leading to a high caliber shootout. The elite Organized Crime Bureau team headed ...
A Window on Asian Cinema
My Rice Noodle Shop- Yang Xie
- Hong Kong
- 1998
- 96min
A single woman called "Mama Boss" opens a rice noodle shop in Taipei and reminisces about the good old days before she fled to Taiwan from China with customers who are mostly immig...
New Currents
The Tree of Life- Farhad Mehranfar
- Iran
- 1998
- 73min
Using documentary-style footage, The Tree of Life is a poetic tale which takes place in the Talesh mountain region of northern Iran. Director Farhad Mehranfar, a veteran of numerou...
New Currents
The Making of Steel- Lu Xuechang
- China
- 1997
- 106min
Zhouqing, who quit school to help his poor household meets Juhlai, a train conducter in a boiler room at the cargo train station, and they become fast friends. One day Zhouqing get...
New Currents
Who Is Running- Oxide PANG
- Thailand
- 1997
- 105min
Hollywood′s Back to the Future and Buddhist reincarnation theory meet each other in this film about overcoming the irreversibility of time. A common theme in film, it is interestin...
New Currents
Too many ways to be No1- Wai Ka-Fai
- Hong Kong
- 1997
- 95min
Too Many Ways To be No.1 explores how a decision made at any one moment in a person′s life can change its entire course. The film′s two-part structure presents separate situations ...
New Currents
After Life- KORE-EDA Hirokazu
- Japan
- 1998
- 118min
"How surprising is the fact that my existence can be a part of somebody else′s happiness?" This is director Kore-Eda Hirokazu′s question to the audience in this story about ′remini...