A Window on Asian Cinema

• ZHANG Yuan
• China
• 1996
• 95 mins

Set in modern Beijing, this docu-drama probes how a real-life family of four, playing themselves, relate to one another in a callous and overwhelming world. At first glance, the fa...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• SHU Kei
• Hong Kong
• 1995
• 87 mins

"Hu-Du-Men" refers to the imaginary line in Cantonese opera at the point an actor crosses the stage, becoming the character and leaving behind one′s personal life. It also refers t...

New Currents

• YU Xiangyuan
• China
• 1996
• 90 mins

Shuiqin had planned on celebrating the Mid-Autumn festival simply. But when she and the town learn that her nephew will return after a long absence to relish her pea noodles, the ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• TSUKAMOTO Shinya
• Japan
• 1995
• 87 mins

In this dark and terrifying, absurd and poignant, psycho-sexual drama, violence, desire and memory collide through a haunting love triangle. Tsuda, a life insurance dealer, leads a...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Sylvia CHANG
• Taiwan
• 1996
• 120 mins

It all starts on Mr. Chen′s 60th birthday. To a semi-retired dentist, still physically fit and full of charisma, reaching sixty is not the best of news. His wife constantly says he...

World Cinema

• Jaco Van DORMAEL
• France
• 1996
• 118 mins

Harry is a normal guy, a robot of daily life lost in the whirpool of work and ambition. He finds Georges on the road. "Me mongol," says Georges. Harry takes Georges back to his hom...

Opening Film

• Mike Leigh
• UK,France
• 1996
• 142min

Hortense is a young black optometrist who， following the death of her adoptive mother， goes in search of her real mother. She duly discovers Cynthia， an unmarried factory worker...

World Cinema

• Marleen GORRIS
• the Netherlands,Belgium,UK
• 1995
• 104 mins

On the last day of her life， Antonia， now in her late 80s， casts herself back to when she and her daughter， Danielle， returned to the village she had left before World War II ...

World Cinema

• Lars VON TRIER
• Denmark,France
• 1996
• 158 mins

In the early 1970′s, a naive girl, Bess, living in a small community on the coast of Scotland, falls in love with oil-rig worker and man-of-the-world Jan. Despite local opposition,...

World Cinema

• Nikita MIKHALKOV
• Russia,France
• 1994
• 152 mins

One wearisome summer day in 1936, Dimitri returns unexpectedly after ten years to his native-town to visit Maroussia. She has married Sergui and has given birth to Nadia. Dimitri i...