New Currents

• Hirosi Shimizu
• Japan
• 1998
• 101min

Nine lugubrious men meet on a tour bus outside Naha Airport in Okinawa, joining a tour organiser, a guide and a driver, all of them dead serious. All with debts they cannot pay, th...

New Currents

• Koji Hagiuda
• Japan
• 1998
• 90min

Set on a small island near Kyushu, Japan, Paradise Sea begins with an encounter between Shinji, a member of a traveling dance troupe, and an old man who has spent a lifetime buildi...

Wide Angle

• Park Chan-Hyung
• Korea
• 1997
• 23min

The film is a genuine observatory record of the daily routines of two old men. One of them played guitar in a band when he was young, and plays his guitar at a park. He visits his ...

Wide Angle

• Sato Makoto
• Japan
• 1998
• 93min

One of the most important elements of a documentary is location. Sometimes the cameraman has a greater role than the director, as evidenced in this documentary which emphasizes cam...

Wide Angle

• Johan van der Keuken
• The Netherlands
• 1997
• 35 min

The relationship between photography and film has been the subject of my work on more than one occasion. It is a theme of Film-maker′s Holiday. In Face of Value (dedicated to the p...

Wide Angle

• Andrei Schwartz
• Germany
• 1997
• 75min

Andrei Schwartz found the occasion for this film in his early youth, when he was still living in Bucharest, close to a Roma settlement that was located at the edge of a garbage dum...

Wide Angle

• Oleg Kovalov
• Russia
• 1998
• 100min

The film Sergei Eisenstein: Mexican Fantasy is not an attempt to reconstruct a film that was never made except in the filmmaker′s head. It is an investigation in to the nature of i...

Wide Angle

• Ramon Gieling
• Netherlands
• 1997
• 55min

In this captivating behind-the scenes look into the making of To Sang Fotostudio, we see van der Keuken "direct" reality, his wife, Noshka van der Lely, record sound and witness th...

Wide Angle

• Mark Rappaport
• USA
• 1997
• 102min

The Silver Screen/Color Me Lavender is a film about the representations of gays in Hollywood movies, during the Golden Age of Hollywood before the words ′gay′ or ′representation′ w...

Wide Angle

• Sebastian Peterson
• Germany
• 1997
• 12min

Fa′s sexual life is satisfying. She attempts to approach Jim, an extremely good-looking fellow. After a romantic night together Fa finds out the shocking truth: Jim is a gangster. ...