New Currents

• Farhad Mehranfar
• Iran
• 1997
• 90min

A father-son team travel into the wilds of northern Iran to screen 16mm films for the local inhabitants in this moody and beautiful portrait of village life. The marriage of a relu...

New Currents

• Ki-Yong PARK
• Korea
• 1997
• 91min

Almost half of the lights that fill the Seoul nightscapes are motel signboards. It is in these places that many spend their youth. Hyun-Ju is sentimental about her memories at the ...

New Currents

• Arthur Chyu
• Taiwan
• 1997
• 102min

This is a story about love and death. One day， two lovers meet to commit suicide together. The man survives， and in fear of being accused of murder， he goes out to buy more slee...

New Currents

• Satoki Kemmochi
• Japan
• 1997
• 118min

Kono is from a small town who came to Tokyo with big dreams. Takase is quitting his delivery job to join Kono in dealing drugs. Takase introduces Kono to Nanae， an illustrator als...

New Currents

• Shinobu Yaguchi
• Japan
• 1996
• 83min

A young woman bank teller passionately in love with money becomes a local hero after being taken hostage by bank robbers. Her efforts to locate the money abandoned by the now dead ...

New Currents

• Fruit CHAN
• Hong Kong
• 1997
• 100min

In Hong Kong, an industrialized and ultramodern city, youngsters do not take life seriously, the conditions of education and family is pernicious, values are disregarded, and alien...

New Currents

• JEON Soo-il
• Korea
• 1997
• 113min

Measured time and the time of consciousness which flows inside of us intertwine into a chronology called "life." This three part film follows man through the stages of childhood...

New Currents

• LEE Chang-dong
• Korea
• 1997
• 111min

The disintegration of family that has become a common Koereasocial phenomenon is expressed through the two character of this film. Having just finished military service, Makdoong d...

New Currents

• Chang Wai Hung
• Hong Kong
• 1997
• 118min

The big city of Hong Kong is a splendid place, but a desert to the young, During the course of one day, Meme has many experiences and encounters people to talk to, but receives no ...

New Currents

• Malay Bhattacharya
• India
• 1996
• 105min

Fiction is a self-described "existential adventure meandering through a landscape of remembrance, nostalgia, daydream and staggering reality." One day Rajat conceives a plan to kid...