Wide Angle

• Mohsen Makhmalbaf
• Iran
• 1997
• 4min

An old man arrives in a tribal school. Thinking he is an inspector from education department, the teacher receives him with great respect, and lets him ask the students questions. ...

Open Cinema

• Alejandro Amenabar
• Spain
• 1997
• 117min

Cesar has been leading a dream life of luxury and indulgence. One night, his best friend, Pelayo, introduces him to Sofia, a woman who instantly becomes the love of his life. That ...

Closing Film

• Imamura Shohei
• Japan,France
• 1997
• 128

On the eve of the Jaoanese surrender in 1945, in a tense war torn climate, Dr.Akagi, the local doctor in a seaside island village, takes a stand to save his professional integrity....

Korean Panorama

• KIM Ki-Duk
• Korea
• 1998
• 100min

The scent of people are brought in with the smell of the sea. Jin-Ah settles down in an inn enclosed in a blue gate near the sea. Hae-Mi, the daughter of the inn owner despises Jin...

Korean Panorama

• Hur Jin-Ho
• Korea
• 1998
• 97min

Drinking with friends, writing instructions on operating the photo machine for his father and making his last portraits - all are last acts for the terminally ill photographer Jung...

Korean Panorama

• Jang Jin
• Korea
• 1998
• 108min

An unlucky criminal, a suicidal young man, and two seemingly foolish convicts compose the motley crew of men who get entangled in a serial murder case. In contrast, the police offi...

Korean Panorama

• HONG Sangsoo
• Korea
• 1998
• 108min

Reality is to director Hong Sangsoo what alcohol is to an alchemist. The harmony and cacophony of his world combine with a cold view of reality which actually reveals a warm concer...

Korean Panorama

• Jang Hyun-Soo
• Korea
• 1998
• 106min

This is the fourth feature by Jang Hyun-Soo known for conventional action melodramas such as Walking All the Way to Heaven and Born to Kill. In this theatrical adaptation of Ha Byu...

Korean Panorama

• KIM Ji-Woon
• Korea
• 1998
• 103min

With the broad attention is its midnight screenings received, The Quiet Family has paved the way for the Korean horror genre to rise which had lost its place in Korean cinema. Howe...

Korean Panorama

• Lee Kwangmo
• Korea
• 1998
• 121min

The subject of the Korean War imposes great weight on a story. This film succeeds in maintaining the balance between lyricism and minimalism, between realism and modernity. Revisi...