Wide Angle

• China
• 1997
• 20min

A water-ink animation about the affection between two people with a warm and mystical narrative style. An old sick musician who teaches music to a young fisherman after receiving his help.

New Currents

• India
• 1997
• 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 kidnap a child while sorting through a heap of person...

Open Cinema

• Hong Kong
• 1997
• 104min

Mr. Gum， the head of a sinister gang， regularly makes confession with the young priest Lee， and then commits crimes again. When Lee goes to meet Gum in prison， he meets the promiscuous Donna. One day she comes for confession a...

Wide Angle

• China
• 1997
• 10min

A paper cut animasiopn about a hurd of silly monkey making trouble as fish the moon from the pool

Wide Angle

• Germany
• 1997
• 88min

Berlin six years after the fall of the wall. The city as a permanent building site has long lost its symbolic power to suggest coming prosperity. People out of work and homeless beggars are now a familiar part of the Berlin landsc...

New Currents

• Thailand
• 1997
• 100min

The two faces of Bangkok. Modernized by appearances, its citizens think in ancient ways. Pu works at 24-hour convenience store, and is plagued by a recurring dream of her dead mother building a house. Pu seeks a fortune teller who...

Open Cinema

• United States
• 1997
• 125min

Navy Intelligence officer Lt. Jordan O＇Neil is selected as a test case to be the first woman allowed to train with the Navy SEALs. Selected for her courage, skills, and level headedness, O＇Neil is determined to succeed in the most...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 1997
• 73min

Recent Iranian cinema is notable for experimenting with new ways of storytelling. Mohsen Makhamalbaf used an absolutely new and complicated storytelling method in Moment of Innocence (made in same year as Gabbeh) through dismantli...

Retrospective Section

• Japan
• 1997
• 21min

Jiraiya is the protagonist of the Edo adaption from a Ming-China novel about thief. He is a Robin Hood and can transform himself into a snake or a frog. The special effects in the film was one of the reasons that it had such popul...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1997
• 36min

This film speculates on the questions of life， and is a daydream of the road. The boundary line between is the marvelous discordance of a hymn with narrative. We either laugh or feel serious， and the contradictions of the film ...