New Currents

• WANG Shaudi
• Taiwan
• 1996
• 126 mins

In the late Ching Dynasty, political corruption and natural disasters plagued the land. The government sets up reservations in remote wastelands to put away the hungry and wanderin...

New Currents

• YIM Soon-Rye
• Korea
• 1996
• 93 mins

Independent, Fatso and Petal are three best friends who have failed the all-important college entrance exam. Lacking ambition and talent, these three are members of Korea′s Generat...

New Currents

• KIM Eung-Soo
• Korea
• 1996
• 88 mins

Two days before the New Year, eight Korean friends get together in a villa near Moscow. Ten years ago, they had been student activists in Seoul during the politically violent 1980′...

New Currents

• Jafar PANAHI
• Iran
• 1995
• 85 mins

This simple film frames a charming portrayal of a young Iranian girl′s mini-odyssey with humor and compassion. A short time before the new year, Raziehkdjh goes out to buy a gold f...

New Currents

• YANG Yoon-Ho
• Korea
• 1996
• 115 mins

A 33-year-old monk enters a barren wasteland, a conceptual utopia called "Yuri". To signal his rebirth, he denudes himself and pursues an unusual study of death for forty days. Bru...

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 ...

New Currents

• Rituparno GHOSH
• India
• 1994
• 130 mins

Nationally acclaimed dancer Sarojini and her daughter Aditi confront the distance amassed between them. Sarojini is enveloped in her art while Aditi sees herself as irrelevant in...

New Currents

• CHANG Tso-Chi
• Taiwan
• 1996
• 98 mins

Ah-Chung lives with his dysfunctional family in a shanty town next to a wildlife reservation zone. His mentally ill brother almost gets knocked over by a truck intended to illegall...

New Currents

• Makoto SHINOZAKI
• Japan
• 1995
• 99 mins

Takashi, a teacher at a cram school, work from evening to late at night seven days a week. Blinded by his workaholic ethic, he fails to notice the anxiety developing within his wif...

New Currents

• Yasmin MALEK NASR
• Iran
• 1995
• 90 mins

This film depicts the events that occur during a banquet. The hosts are a married couple who have experienced many vicissitudes of life. They have endured the bitterness of life an...