Galas

• Artemisia
  Artemisia (film)
  Artemisia is a 1997 French/Italian/German biographical film about Artemisia Gentileschi, the female Italian Baroque painter. The film was directed by Agnès Merlet, and stars Valentina Cervi and Michel Serrault.-Cast:...
  
  directed by Agnès Merlet
  Agnès Merlet
  Agnès Merlet is a French film director who is known for directing Son of the Shark, Artemisia and Dorothy Mills...
  
  
• The Assignment directed by Christian Duguay
  Christian Duguay (director)
  Christian Duguay is a Canadian director. He directed the Emmy nominated miniseries Hitler: The Rise of Evil, which aired on the CBC in May 2003. He is best known for directing the action films Screamers starring Peter Weller and Roy Dupuis and The Art of War starring Wesley Snipes and Michael...
  
  
• Chinese Box
  Chinese Box
  Chinese Box is a 1997 movie directed by Wayne Wang and starring Jeremy Irons, Gong Li, Maggie Cheung and Michael Hui.The movie is set and was made at the time of Hong Kong's handover to the People's Republic of China on June 30, 1997...
  
  directed by Wayne Wang
  Wayne Wang
  Wayne Wang is a Chinese American film director.-Biography:Wang was born and raised in Hong Kong, and named after his father's favorite movie star, John Wayne...
  
  
• The Edge directed by Lee Tamahori
  Lee Tamahori
  Lee Tamahori is a New Zealand filmmaker best known for directing the 1994 film Once Were Warriors and the 2002 James Bond film Die Another Day.-Upbringing and early career:...
  
  
• Eve's Bayou
  Eve's Bayou
  Eve's Bayou is a 1997 American drama film written and directed by Kasi Lemmons, who made her directorial debut with this feature. Samuel L...
  
  directed by Kasi Lemmons
  Kasi Lemmons
  Kasi Lemmons is an American film director and actress, most notable for her work on the films Eve's Bayou, The Caveman's Valentine and Talk to Me....
  
  
• FairyTale: A True Story
  FairyTale: A True Story
  FairyTale: A True Story is a 1997 film from Paramount Pictures, loosely based on the story of the Cottingley Fairies.-Plot:Early 20th Century England was a time and place ripe for believing, both in scientific advancements such as electric light and photography, and in anomalous phenomena of all...
  
  directed by Charles Sturridge
  Charles Sturridge
  Charles B. G. Sturridge is an English screenwriter, producer, stage, television and film director.-Personal life:Sturridge was born in London, England to Alyson Bowman Vaughan and Jerome Sturridge. He was educated at Stonyhurst College...
  
  
• Gattaca
  Gattaca
  Gattaca is a 1997 science fiction film written and directed by Andrew Niccol. It stars Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman and Jude Law with supporting roles played by Loren Dean, Ernest Borgnine, Gore Vidal and Alan Arkin....
  
  directed by Andrew Niccol
  Andrew Niccol
  Andrew M. Niccol is a New Zealand screenwriter, producer, and director. He wrote and directed Gattaca, S1m0ne, In Time, and Lord of War. He also wrote and co-produced The Truman Show, which earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay in 1999 and won a BAFTA award for Best...
  
  
• In & Out
  In & Out
  In & Out is a 1997 American romantic comedy film directed by Frank Oz and starring Kevin Kline, Joan Cusack, Matt Dillon, Tom Selleck, Debbie Reynolds, Bob Newhart, and Wilford Brimley. The screenplay was written by screenwriter Paul Rudnick...
  
  directed by Frank Oz
  Frank Oz
  Frank Oz is a British-born American film director, actor, voice actor and puppeteer who is known for creating and performing the characters Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear in The Muppet Show, Cookie Monster, Bert and Grover in Sesame Street, and for directing films, including the 1986 Little Shop of...
  
  
• L.A. Confidential
  L.A. Confidential (film)
  L.A. Confidential is a 1997 American film based on James Ellroy's 1990 novel of the same title, the third book in his L.A. Quartet. Both the book and the film tell the story of a group of LAPD officers in the 1950s, and the intersection of police corruption and Hollywood celebrity...
  
  directed by Curtis Hanson
  Curtis Hanson
  Curtis Lee Hanson is an American film director, film producer and screenwriter. His directing work includes The Hand That Rocks the Cradle , L.A...
  
  
• Marquise
  Marquise (film)
  Marquise is a 1997 French dramatic film directed by Véra Belmont, and starring Sophie Marceau, Bernard Giraudeau, and Lambert Wilson. The film is set in seventeenth century France and includes several historical figures, such as Moliere, Racine, and King Louis XIV.- Plot :While four actresses from...
  
  directed by Véra Belmont
  Véra Belmont
  Véra Belmont is a French film producer, director and screenwriter. She has produced over 40 films since 1960. Her 1985 film Red Kiss was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival, where Charlotte Valandrey won the Silver Bear for Best Actress.-Selected filmography:* The Cop * Quest...
  
  
• Men with Guns
  Men with Guns
  Men with Guns is a 1997 American drama film written and directed by John Sayles. The executive producers were Lou Gonda and Jody Patton, and the cast included Federico Luppi, Damián Delgado and Mandy Patinkin....
  
  directed by John Sayles
  John Sayles
  John Thomas Sayles is an American independent film director, screenwriter and author.-Early life:Sayles was born in Schenectady, New York, the son of Mary , a teacher, and Donald John Sayles, a school administrator. He was raised Catholic and took to labeling himself "a Catholic atheist"...
  
  
• Mrs Dalloway
  Mrs Dalloway (film)
  Mrs Dalloway is a 1997 drama film directed by Marleen Gorris and starring Vanessa Redgrave, Natascha McElhone and Michael Kitchen. It is an adaptation of the novel Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf...
  
  directed by Marleen Gorris
  Marleen Gorris
  Marleen Gorris is a writer-director from the Netherlands. Gorris is known as an outspoken feminist and supporter of gay and lesbian issues which is reflected in much of her work....
  
  
• Regeneration
  Regeneration (1997 film)
  Regeneration is a 1997 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Pat Barker. The film is directed by Gillies MacKinnon. It was released as Behind the Lines in the USA in 1998.-Plot:...
  
  directed by Gillies MacKinnon
  Gillies MacKinnon
  Gillies MacKinnon is a Scottish film director and writer.His film credits include Hideous Kinky, Small Faces and Regeneration.-Personal life:...
  
  
• Seven Years in Tibet
  Seven Years in Tibet (1997 film)
  Seven Years in Tibet is a 1997 film based on the book of the same name written by Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer on his experiences in Tibet between 1944 and 1951 during the Second World War, the interim period, and the Chinese People's Liberation Army's invasion of Tibet in 1950. The film...
  
  directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud
  Jean-Jacques Annaud
  Jean-Jacques Annaud is a French film director, film producer and screenwriter.- Biography :Annaud was born in Juvisy-sur-Orge, Essonne...
  
  
• The Sweet Hereafter
  The Sweet Hereafter (film)
  The Sweet Hereafter is a 1997 Canadian film written and directed by Atom Egoyan. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Russell Banks.-Plot:...
  
  directed by Atom Egoyan
  Atom Egoyan
  Atom Egoyan, OC is a critically acclaimed Armenian-Canadian stage director and film director. Egoyan made his career breakthrough with Exotica...
  
  
• Swept from the Sea
  Swept from the Sea
  Swept from the Sea is a 1997 American drama film based on a 1903 short story, "Amy Foster" by Joseph Conrad. It stars Vincent Perez, Rachel Weisz, Ian McKellen, Joss Ackland, Kathy Bates, Zoë Wanamaker and Tom Bell and was directed by Beeban Kidron....
  
  directed by Beeban Kidron
  Beeban Kidron
  Beeban Kidron is an English Film Director known for her much-lauded adaptation of Jeanette Winterson's autobiographical novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and for directing Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason...
  
  
• Washington Square
  Washington Square (film)
  Washington Square is a 1997 American drama film directed by Agnieszka Holland. The screenplay by Carol Doyle is based on the 1880 novel of the same name by Henry James, which was filmed as The Heiress in 1949.-Plot summary:...
  
  directed by Agnieszka Holland
  Agnieszka Holland
  Agnieszka Holland is a Polish film and TV director and screenwriter. Best recognized for her highly political contributions to Polish cinema, Holland is one of Poland's most prominent filmmakers.-Personal life:...
  
  
• The Wings of the Dove directed by Iain Softley
  Iain Softley
  Iain Softley is an English film director. He was educated at St Benedict's School, Ealing, where he played the part of Thomas Becket in its 1975 production of T. S...
  
  

Special Presentations

• Afterglow
  Afterglow (film)
  Afterglow is a 1997 feature film starring Nick Nolte and Julie Christie. Alan Rudolph directed and wrote the script for the film. It was produced by Robert Altman and filmed in Montreal....
  
  directed by Alan Rudolph
• The Apostle
  The Apostle
  The Apostle is a 1997 American drama film written and directed by Robert Duvall, who stars in the title role. John Beasley, Farrah Fawcett, Billy Bob Thornton, June Carter Cash, Miranda Richardson and Billy Joe Shaver also appear...
  
  directed by Robert Duvall
  Robert Duvall
  Robert Selden Duvall is an American actor and director. He has won an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards and a BAFTA over the course of his career....
  
  
• Le Bassin De JW (The Pelvis Of JW) directed by Joao Cesar Monteiro
  João César Monteiro
  João César Monteiro was a Portuguese film director, actor, writer and film critic . He was born in Figueira da Foz on February 2, 1939 and died of cancer in Lisbon on February 3, 2003.- Life and career :...
  
  
• The Big One
  The Big One (film)
  The Big One is a movie filmed in 1996—and released in 1998 by Miramax Films—by Michael Moore during his promotion tour around the United States for his book Downsize This!...
  
  directed by Michael Moore
  Michael Moore
  Michael Francis Moore is an American filmmaker, author, social critic and activist. He is the director and producer of Fahrenheit 9/11, which is the highest-grossing documentary of all time. His films Bowling for Columbine and Sicko also place in the top ten highest-grossing documentaries...
  
  
• The Blackout directed by Abel Ferrara
  Abel Ferrara
  Abel Ferrara is an American film screenwriter and director. He is best known as an independent filmmaker of such films as The Driller Killer , Ms. 45 , King of New York , Bad Lieutenant and The Funeral .-Early life:Ferrara was born in the Bronx of Italian and Irish descent...
  
  
• The Blood Oranges
  The Blood Oranges
  Blood Oranges is a 1997 erotic drama film directed by Philip Haas. This was Haas’s third feature film, which is based on the 1972 erotic cult novel by John Hawkes .-Cast:*Sheryl Lee Fiona*Charles Dance Cyril*Colin Lane Hugh...
  
  directed by Philip Haas
  Philip Haas
  Philip Haas is an American artist and filmmaker. His exhibition of film installations at the Kimbell Art Museum, "Butchers, Dragons, Gods and Skeletons," was listed by TIME magazine as one of the top ten museum shows of 2009 Retrospectives of his art films have been held at the Tate Gallery in...
  
  
• Boogie Nights
  Boogie Nights
  Boogie Nights is a 1997 drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Set in Los Angeles's San Fernando Valley, the script focuses on a young nightclub dishwasher who becomes a popular star of pornographic films, and chronicles his rise and fall from the Golden Age of Porn of the 1970s...
  
  directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
  Paul Thomas Anderson
  Paul Thomas Anderson is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He has written and directed five feature films: Hard Eight , Boogie Nights , Magnolia , Punch-Drunk Love and There Will Be Blood...
  
  
• Face
  Face (1997 film)
  Face is a British crime drama directed by Antonia Bird and written by Ronan Bennett. It stars Robert Carlyle and Ray Winstone and features the acting debut of rock singer Damon Albarn.-Plot Summary:...
  
  directed by Antonia Bird
  Antonia Bird
  Antonia Bird is an English television drama and feature film director.-Life and career:Bird was born in London. She began her career at the Royal Court Theatre before moving to television in the mid 1980s, directing episodes of EastEnders , Casualty , and drama serials like Thin Air and The Men's...
  
  
• Fast, Cheap and Out of Control
  Fast, Cheap and Out of Control
  Fast, Cheap and Out of Control is a 1997 film by documentary filmmaker Errol Morris. It profiles four subjects with extraordinary careers: a lion trainer, a topiary sculptor, a mole rat specialist, and a robot scientist....
  
  directed by Errol Morris
  Errol Morris
  Errol Mark Morris is an American director. In 2003, The Guardian put him seventh in its list of the world's 40 best directors. Also in 2003, his film The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.-Early life and...
  
  
• Fireworks (Hana-Bi)
  Hana-bi
  , released in the US as "Fireworks", is a 1997 Japanese film written, directed and edited by, and starring Japanese filmmaker Takeshi Kitano. The film's score was composed by renowned Japanese composer Joe Hisaishi. This was their fourth collaboration...
  
  directed by Takeshi Kitano
  Takeshi Kitano
  is a Japanese filmmaker, comedian, singer, actor, film editor, presenter, screenwriter, author, poet, painter, and one-time video game designer who has received critical acclaim, both in his native Japan and abroad, for his highly idiosyncratic cinematic work. The famed Japanese film critic...
  
  
• 4 Little Girls
  4 Little Girls
  4 Little Girls is a 1997 American historical documentary film about the 1963 murder of four African-American girls during the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. It was directed by Spike Lee and nominated for an Academy Award for "Best Documentary".The incident...
  
  directed by Spike Lee
  Spike Lee
  Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor. His production company, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, has produced over 35 films since 1983....
  
  
• Henry Fool
  Henry Fool
  Henry Fool is a 1997 American seriocomic film written, produced and directed by Hal Hartley, featuring Thomas Jay Ryan, James Urbaniak, and Parker Posey. As in The Unbelievable Truth, an earlier Hartley film, expectation and reality again conflict....
  
  directed by Hal Hartley
  Hal Hartley
  Hal Hartley is an American film director, screenwriter, producer composer, who became a key figure in the American independent film movement of the 1980s and 1990s...
  
  
• The House of Yes
  The House of Yes
  The House of Yes is a 1997 film starring Parker Posey, Josh Hamilton, Geneviève Bujold, Freddie Prinze, Jr. and Tori Spelling. The movie is based on the play of the same name, which was written by Wendy MacLeod. It was produced by Robert Berger and was released by Miramax Films on October 10,...
  
  directed by Mark Waters
• The Informant
  The Informant (1997 film)
  The Informant is a 1997 cable TV movie produced by Showtime, starring Cary Elwes and Timothy Dalton. It was directed by Jim McBride and written by Nicholas Meyer based upon the book Field of Blood by Gerald Seymour.-Plot:...
  
  directed by Jim McBride
  Jim McBride
  Jim McBride is an American television and film director, film producer and screenwriter.-Filmography:* David Holzman's Diary * My Girlfriend's Wedding...
  
  
• Inspirations directed by Michael Apted
  Michael Apted
  Michael David Apted, CMG is an English director, producer, writer and actor. He is one of the most prolific British film directors of his generation but is best known for his work on the Up Series of documentaries and the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough.On 29 June 2003 he was elected...
  
  
• Life During Wartime
  The Alarmist (film)
  The Alarmist, also known as Life During Wartime, is a 1997 film written and directed by Evan Dunsky, starring David Arquette, Stanley Tucci, with Kate Capshaw and Ryan Reynolds. The film is an adaptation of a play written by Keith Reddin....
  
  directed by Evan Dunsky
  Evan Dunsky
  Evan Dunsky is an American television writer, producer and director.Evan Dunsky wrote and directed the 1997 feature film The Alarmist based on the play Life During Wartime by Keith Reddin...
  
  
• Loved directed by Erin Dignam
• Mr. Jealousy directed by Noah Baumbach
  Noah Baumbach
  Noah Baumbach is an American writer, director and independent filmmaker.-Background and education:Baumbach was born in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of novelist/film critic Jonathan Baumbach and Village Voice critic Georgia Brown. He graduated from Brooklyn's Midwood High School in 1987 and ...
  
  
• My Best Girl directed by Sam Taylor
  Sam Taylor (director)
  Sam Taylor was a film director, screenwriter, and producer, most active in silent film era. Taylor is best known for his comedic directorial work with Harold Lloyd and Mary Pickford....
  
  
• Nil by Mouth
  Nil by Mouth (film)
  Nil by Mouth is a 1997 British drama film portraying a family of characters living in South East London. It was Gary Oldman's debut as a writer and director; the film was produced by Douglas Urbanski and Luc Besson. It stars Ray Winstone as Raymond, the abusive husband of Valerie...
  
  directed by Gary Oldman
  Gary Oldman
  Gary Leonard Oldman is an English actor, voice actor, filmmaker and musician.A member of the 1980s Brit Pack, Oldman came to prominence via starring roles in British films Meantime , Sid and Nancy and Prick Up Your Ears , with his performance in the latter bringing him his first BAFTA Award...
  
  
• One Night Stand
  One Night Stand (1997 film)
  One Night Stand is a 1997 drama film by British director Mike Figgis. The first draft of the screenplay was written by Joe Eszterhas, who had his name removed from the project following Figgis' rewrite.-Plot summary:...
  
  directed by Mike Figgis
  Mike Figgis
  Michael "Mike" Figgis is an English film director, writer, and composer.-Personal life:Figgis was born in Carlisle, England and grew up in Africa. Figgis for several years had a relationship with the actress Saffron Burrows and cast her in several films...
  
  
• Pronto directed by Jim McBride
  Jim McBride
  Jim McBride is an American television and film director, film producer and screenwriter.-Filmography:* David Holzman's Diary * My Girlfriend's Wedding...
  
  
• The Spanish Prisoner
  The Spanish Prisoner
  The Spanish Prisoner is a 1997 American suspense film, written and directed by David Mamet and starring Campbell Scott, Steve Martin, Rebecca Pidgeon, Ben Gazzara and Ricky Jay...
  
  directed by David Mamet
  David Mamet
  David Alan Mamet is an American playwright, essayist, screenwriter and film director.Best known as a playwright, Mamet won a Pulitzer Prize and received a Tony nomination for Glengarry Glen Ross . He also received a Tony nomination for Speed-the-Plow . As a screenwriter, he received Oscar...
  
  
• Suicide Kings
  Suicide Kings
  Suicide Kings is a 1997 American neo-noir/comedy-drama film, starring Christopher Walken, Denis Leary, Sean Patrick Flanery, Johnny Galecki, Jay Mohr, Jeremy Sisto, and Henry Thomas...
  
  directed by Peter O'Fallon
  Peter O'Fallon
  Peter O'Fallon is an American director, producer and writer for commercial, television and film productions.O'Fallon grew up in Colorado and graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a degree in Film Studies. He began his career in the industry by making small T.V. spots for local...
  
  
• The Tango Lesson
  The Tango Lesson
  The Tango Lesson is a 1997 drama film by British director Sally Potter. It is a semi-autobiographical film starring Potter and Pablo Verón, about Argentinian Tango....
  
  directed by Sally Potter
  Sally Potter
  Charlotte Sally Potter is an English film director and screenwriter.-Career:Having left school at sixteen to become a filmmaker, Potter joined the London Film-Makers' Co-op and started making experimental short films, including Jerk and Play...
  
  
• Two Girls and a Guy
  Two Girls and a Guy
  Two Girls and a Guy is a film produced in 1997 by Edward R. Pressman and Chris Hanley. The director was James Toback, who also wrote the screenplay.-Plot:...
  
  directed by James Toback
  James Toback
  James Lee Toback is an American screenwriter and film director.-Early life:Toback was born in New York City. His mother, Selma Judith , was a President of The League of Women Voters and a moderator of political debates on NBC. His father, Irwin Lionel Toback, was a stockbroker and former...
  
  
• Welcome To Sarajevo
  Welcome To Sarajevo
  Welcome to Sarajevo is a British war film from 1997. It is directed by Michael Winterbottom. The screenplay is by Frank Cottrell Boyce and is based on the book Natasha's Story by Michael Nicholson.- Synopsis :...
  
  directed by Michael Winterbottom
  Michael Winterbottom
  Michael Winterbottom is a prolific English filmmaker who has directed seventeen feature films in the past fifteen years. He began his career working in British television before moving into features...
  
  
• Year of the Horse
  Year of the Horse
  Year of the Horse is a 1997 documentary directed by Jim Jarmusch following Neil Young and Crazy Horse on their 1996 tour.-Eponymous album:Year of the Horse is also a live album by Neil Young & Crazy Horse released in 1997...
  
  directed by Jim Jarmusch
  Jim Jarmusch
  James R. "Jim" Jarmusch is an American independent film director, screenwriter, actor, producer, editor and composer. Jarmusch has been a major proponent of independent cinema, particularly during the 1980s and 1990s.-Early life:...
  
  

The Masters

• The Castle directed by Michael Haneke
  Michael Haneke
  Michael Haneke is a German born Austrian filmmaker and writer best known for his bleak and disturbing style. His films often document problems and failures in modern society. Haneke has worked in television‚ theatre and cinema. He is also known for raising social issues in his work...
  
  
• The Duo
  Iruvar
  Iruvar is a 1997 Tamil film directed, co-written, and co-produced by Mani Ratnam, with music composed by A. R. Rahman. The film is a fictionalized account of the lives of 1980s Tamil Nadu political icons M. G. Ramachandran and M...
  
  directed by Mani Rathnam
• Esmeralda Comes By Night directed by Jaime Humberto Hermosillo
  Jaime Humberto Hermosillo
  Jaime Humberto Hermosillo is a Mexican film director, often compared to Spain's Pedro Almodóvar.Born in Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, in center Mexico, Hermosillo's films often explore the hypocrisy of middle-class Mexican values....
  
  
• Funny Games directed by Michael Haneke
  Michael Haneke
  Michael Haneke is a German born Austrian filmmaker and writer best known for his bleak and disturbing style. His films often document problems and failures in modern society. Haneke has worked in television‚ theatre and cinema. He is also known for raising social issues in his work...
  
  
• Journey To The Beginning Of The World directed by Manoel de Oliveira
  Manoel de Oliveira
  Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira, GCSE is a Portuguese film director born in Cedofeita, Porto. He began working on films in the late 1920s, but did not receive international recognition until the early 1970s. Since the late 1980s he has been one of the most prolific working film directors and...
  
  
• Keep Cool
  Keep Cool (film)
  Keep Cool is a 1997 Chinese black comedy directed by Zhang Yimou and adapted from the novel Evening Papers News by Shu Ping. The film about a bookseller in love in 1990s Beijing, marked a move away from earlier period pictures of Zhang's earlier work to a more realistic Cinéma vérité-like period...
  
  directed by Zhang Yimou
  Zhang Yimou
  Zhang Yimou is a Chinese film director, producer, writer and actor, and former cinematographer. He is counted amongst the Fifth Generation of Chinese filmmakers, having made his directorial debut in 1987 with Red Sorghum....
  
  
• Mon Oncle Antoine
  Mon oncle Antoine
  Mon oncle Antoine is a 1971 National Film Board of Canada French language drama film. Québécois director Claude Jutra co-wrote the screenplay with Clément Perron and directed what is one of the most acclaimed works in Canadian film history.The film examines life in the Maurice Duplessis-era...
  
  directed by Claude Jutra
  Claude Jutra
  Claude Jutra was a Canadian actor, film director and writer. The Prix Jutra are named in his honor because of his importance in Quebec cinema history. He was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec....
  
  
• Moon over Broadway directed by Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker
• Mother and Son
  Mother and Son
  Mother and Son is a Logie Award-winning Australian television sitcom produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from 16 January 1984 until 21 March 1994. The show stars Ruth Cracknell, Garry McDonald, Henri Szeps and Judy Morris...
  
  directed by Alexandr Sokurov
• The Scar (Blizna) directed by Krzystof Kieslowski
• Unagi (The Eel) directed by Shohei Imamura
  Shohei Imamura
  was a Japanese film director. Imamura was the first Japanese director to win two Palme d'Or awards.His eldest son Daisuke Tengan is also a script writer and film director, and worked on the screenplays to Imamura's filmsThe Eel , Dr...
  
  

Perspective Canada

• L'Absent
  L'Absent
  L'Absent is a 1997 Canadian experimental film written and directed by Céline Baril.The idea for the film was inspired by Baril's discovery in a Paris flea market of a dusty old photo album...
  
  directed by Celine Baril
• Across directed by Cara Morton
• Anna À La Lettre C directed by Hugo Brochu
• The Big Pickle directed by Gary Yates
  Gary Yates
  For the director, see Gary Yates Gary Yates was an English cricketer, a capable off-spinner who played for Lancashire from 1989 to 2004. He often seemed to be underrated as a 4 day player and most of his notable appearances came in the One-Day team. He subsequently became 2nd team captain and coach...
  
  
• bp (pushing the boundaries) directed by Brian Nash
• Breakfast With Gus directed by Siobhan Devine
• Bury Me Happy directed by Brian McPhail
• City Of Dark directed by Bruno Lazaro Pacheco
  Bruno Lázaro Pacheco
  Bruno Lázaro Pacheco is a Spanish-Canadian film director who has written and directed fiction, documentary and experimental films.-Biography:...
  
  
• La Comtesse De Baton Rouge directed by André Forcier
  André Forcier
  André Forcier is a Quebec film director and screenwriter. His work has been linked to Latin American magic realism by its use of fantasy but is firmly rooted in Quebec's reality....
  
  
• Cosmos directed by Manon Briand, Andre Turpin, Marie-Julie Dallaire, Denis Villeneuve
  Denis Villeneuve
  Denis Villeneuve is a Canadian film director and writer. In his early career he won Radio-Canada's youth film competition "La Course Europe-Asie" in 1990-91. He is a three-time winner of the Genie Award for Best Director, for Maelström in 2001, Polytechnique in 2010 and Incendies in 2011...
  
  , Jennifer Alleyn and Arto Paragamian
• Cotton Candy directed by Roshell Bissett
  Roshell Bissett
  Roshell Bissett is a Canadian independent filmmaker who wrote and directed several short films including the award winning "Cotton Candy" and one feature length film entitled "Winter Lily"- Biography :...
  
  
• Cube
  Cube (film)
  Cube is a 1997 Canadian science fiction psychological thriller/horror film directed by Vincenzo Natali. The film was a successful product of the Canadian Film Centre's First Feature Project....
  
  directed by Vincenzo Natali
  Vincenzo Natali
  Vincenzo Natali is an American-Canadian film director and screenwriter, best known for writing and directing science fiction films such as Cube, Nothing and Splice.-Early life:...
  
  
• Dance With Me directed by Cassandra Nicolaou
• Drive, She Said directed by Mina Shum
  Mina Shum
  Mina Shum is an independent Canadian filmmaker. She is director resident at the Canadian Film Centre in Toronto...
  
  
• Drowning In Dreams directed by Tim Southam
  Tim Southam
  Tim Southam is an award-winning Canadian television and film director.-Career:Early signs of Southam's directing ability came in 1995 when he was nominated for the Gemini Award for Best Direction in a Variety or Performing Arts Program or Series for the 1994 documentary Satie and Suzanne about...
  
  
• Erotica: A Journey Into Female Sexuality directed by Maya Gallus
• Fresh Off The Boat directed by Peter Demas
• Gerrie & Louise directed by Sturla Gunnarsson
  Sturla Gunnarsson
  Sturla Gunnarsson is a Canadian film director.Gunnarsson was born in Iceland in 1951. He moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, with his parents when he was seven years old. As he grew up he became interested in filmmaking and went to the University of British Columbia where he completed...
  
  
• Grace Eternal directed by Neil Burns
  Neil Burns
  Neil David Burns is a former English cricketer who played as a wicketkeeper/batsman for various clubs but spent the majority of his career at Leicestershire and Somerset...
  
  
• Guise directed by Wrik Mead
• Guy Maddin: Waiting For Twilight directed by Noam Gonick
  Noam Gonick
  Noam Gonick RCA is a Canadian film director, screenwriter and artist.The son of radical Marxist and former Manitoba MLA Cy Gonick, Noam supplemented his formal film education by studying directors Guy Maddin and Bruce LaBruce. His survey of Maddin's life and work became the documentary Waiting...
  
  
• The Hanging Garden
  The Hanging Garden
  The Hanging Garden is a 1997 British/Canadian movie written and directed by Thom Fitzgerald that is about the duality of life and death and the way seemingly very different choices in life can lead to similar outcomes....
  
  directed by Thom Fitzgerald
  Thom Fitzgerald
  Thomas "Thom" Fitzgerald is an award winning American-Canadian film director as well live theater director.-Life:Fitzgerald was born and raised in New Rochelle, New York. His parents divorced when he was five years old. He moved with his mother and brother, Timothy Jr., to Bergenfield, New Jersey,...
  
  
• Hayseed directed by Josh Levy and Andrew Hayes
• The Hazards Of Falling Glass directed by John Martins-Manteiga
• Incantation directed by Cara Morton
• Kid Nerd directed by Shereen Jerrett
• Kitchen Party
  Kitchen Party (film)
  Kitchen Party is a 1997 film written and directed by Gary Burns . The movie cast a number of then-unknown young Canadian actors, including Scott Speedman, Laura Harris, and Tygh Runyan, and was released on September 8, 1997 at the Toronto Film Festival.- Plot summary :In the bored suburban...
  
  directed by Gary Burns
• Linear Dreams directed by Richard Reeves
• The Mao Lounge directed by Chad Derrick
• Men with Guns directed by Kari Skogland
  Kari Skogland
  Kari Skogland is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, and producer.-Career:Skogland started directing award-winning television commercials and music videos. She moved on to television shows with 1996's Traders...
  
  
• Museum directed by Chris Walsh
• 1919 directed by Noam Gonick
  Noam Gonick
  Noam Gonick RCA is a Canadian film director, screenwriter and artist.The son of radical Marxist and former Manitoba MLA Cy Gonick, Noam supplemented his formal film education by studying directors Guy Maddin and Bruce LaBruce. His survey of Maddin's life and work became the documentary Waiting...
  
  
• Permission directed by Daniel MacIvor
  Daniel MacIvor
  Daniel MacIvor is a Canadian actor, playwright, theatre director and film director. He was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia and educated at Dalhousie University in Halifax, and then at George Brown College in Toronto, Ontario....
  
  
• Pitch directed by Spencer Rice
  Spencer Rice
  Spencer "Spenny" Nolan Rice is a Canadian writer, director, producer, and comedian. He was the co-star of Kenny vs. Spenny along with Kenny Hotz.-Personal life:...
  
   and Kenny Hotz
  Kenny Hotz
  Kenneth Joel "Kenny" Hotz is an award-winning Canadian writer, director, actor, producer and photographer. He is a former South Park consultant/writer, creator/director/co-star of the Showcase and Comedy Central television show Kenny vs...
  
  
• The Planet of Junior Brown directed by Clement Virgo
  Clement Virgo
  Clément Virgo is a Canadian filmmaker of international acclaim. His latest feature, the boxing drama Poor Boy's Game, stars Danny Glover and Rossif Sutherland...
  
  
• Question Of Reality directed by Barry Gibson
• Shift directed by Shaun Cathcart
• Shooting Indians: A Journey With Jeffrey Thomas directed by Ali Kazimi
  Ali Kazimi
  -Early life and education:Born and raised in India, Kazimi graduated from St. Stephen's College, Delhi in 1982. He went to Canada on a scholarship to study filmmaking at York University in Toronto, Ontario...
  
  
• Shopping For Fangs
  Shopping for Fangs
  -Cast:* Radmar Jao as Phil* Jeanne Chin as Katherine* Clint Jung as Jim* Lela Lee as Naomi* John Cho as Clarance* Peggy Ahn as Grace* Scott Eberlein as Matt* Daniel Twyman as Dr. Suleri* Jennifer Hengstenberg as Sammi* Dana Pan as May...
  
  directed by Quentin Lee
  Quentin Lee
  Quentin Lee 李孟熙 is a film writer and director. He is most notable for Ethan Mao , Drift , Flow , and the film short To Ride a Cow . Lee also co-directed Shopping For Fangs with Justin Lin, known for his controversial film Better Luck Tomorrow...
  
   and Justin Lin
  Justin Lin
  Justin Lin is a Taiwanese American film director, best known for his work on Better Luck Tomorrow, The Fast and the Furious franchise and the television show, Community.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Le Siege De L'Ame directed by Olivier Asselin
• The Skating Party directed by Marcia Connolly and Janet Hawkwood
• The Swimming Lesson directed by Sheri Elwood
  Sheri Elwood
  Sheri Elwood is a screenwriter/director working in film and television, best known as creator of the series Call Me Fitz starring Jason Priestly.-Television:-Film:-Awards and nominations:Awards...
  
  
• Tu As Crie: Let Me Go directed by Anne Claire Poirier
  Anne Claire Poirier
  Anne Claire Poirier is a Canadian film producer, director and screenwriter. She is one of the most important female filmmakers in Canadian history; her documentary film De mère en fille is the first feature film ever directed by a French-Canadian woman...
  
  
• Twilight of the Ice Nymphs
  Twilight of the Ice Nymphs
  Twilight of the Ice Nymphs is a 1997 Canadian fantasy film directed by Guy Maddin. It was filmed in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada....
  
  directed by Guy Maddin
  Guy Maddin
  Guy Maddin, OM is a Canadian screenwriter, director, cinematographer and film editor of both features and short films from Winnipeg, Manitoba...
  
  
• Two Feet, One Angel directed by Ramiro Puerta
• Uncut
  Uncut (film)
  Un©ut is a Canadian docudrama film, released in 1997. The film was written and directed by John Greyson.Set in Ottawa in 1979, the film stars Matthew Ferguson as Peter Cort, a researcher writing a book on male circumcision, and Michael Achtman as Peter Koosens, his assistant who has a sexual...
  
  directed by John Greyson
  John Greyson
  John Greyson is a Canadian filmmaker, whose work frequently deals with gay themes. Greyson is also a video artist, writer and activist; he is currently a professor at York University, where he teaches film and video theory and film production and editing.-Background:Greyson was born the son of...
  
  
• La Vie Arretee directed by Martin Allard
• We Are Experiencing... directed by John Kneller
• What Goes Around directed by Lloyd Surdi
• White Cloud, Blue Mountain directed by Keith Behrman
• Zie 37 Stagen directed by Sylvain Guy

Contemporary World Cinema

• The Assistant directed by Daniel Petrie
  Daniel Petrie
  Daniel Mannix Petrie was a Canadian television and movie director.Petrie was born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada, the son of Mary Anne and William Mark Petrie, a soft-drink manufacturer. He moved to the United States in 1945...
  
  
• Bird Watching directed by Shinobu Yaguchi
  Shinobu Yaguchi
  is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He specializes in feel-good "zero to hero" films, where a group of people take up an unlikely activity, face a number of obstacles, but finally succeed. His film Waterboys was particularly successful and led to a TV series which entered its third...
  
  
• Blinded (A Ciegas) directed by Daniel Calparsoro
• Brain Holiday directed by Hineki Mito
• Brother
  Brother (1997 film)
  Brother is a 1997 Russian crime film directed by Aleksei Balabanov and starring Sergei Bodrov, Jr. The sequel Brother 2 was released in 2000. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...
  
  directed by Alexei Balabanov
• C'est la tangente que je prefere directed by Charlotte Silvera
• Character
  Character (1997 film)
  Character is a 1997 Dutch/Belgian film, based on the best-selling novel by Ferdinand Bordewijk and directed by Mike van Diem. The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 70th Academy Awards...
  
  directed by Mike van Diem
  Mike van Diem
  Mike van Diem is a Dutch film director.In 1990 his short film Alaska won a Golden Calf for best short film and the Student Academy Award for best foreign student film in the drama category...
  
  
• Clandestins directed by Denis Chouinard
  Denis Chouinard
  Denis Chouinard is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He has a degree in Filmmaking from Cégep de Saint-Laurent and a degree in Communications from UQAM. He is a close friend and collaborator of filmmaker Louis Bélanger; both men created several short films together before branching off...
  
  
• Close to the Knives directed by David Ottenhouse
• Conceiving Ada
  Conceiving Ada
  Conceiving Ada is a 1997 movie produced, written, and directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson. Produced by Lynn Hershman Leeson and Henry S. Rosenthal. Directors of Photography: Hiro Narita, Bill Zarchy-Synopsis:...
  
  directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson
  Lynn Hershman Leeson
  Lynn Hershman Leeson is an award-winning American artist and filmmaker. She was Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis, and an A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University...
  
  
• Delirium directed by Peque Gallaga
  Peque Gallaga
  Peque Gallaga is a multi-awarded Filipino filmmaker. His most significant achievement in film is "Oro, Plata, Mata", which he directed after winning a scripwriting contest sponsored by the Experimental Cinema of the Philippines...
  
   and Lore Reyes
• Des majorettes dans l'espace directed by David Fourier
• Devil's Island
  Devil's Island (1996 film)
  Djöflaeyjan is a 1996 film directed by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson. It is a dark comedy filmed in the Keflavik area of South west Iceland. The story depicts a group of otherwise homeless families living in barracks abandoned by the US Air Force after the Second World War...
  
  directed by Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
• Doing Time for Patsy Cline
  Doing Time for Patsy Cline
  Doing Time for Patsy Cline is a 1997 Australian multi-award-winning film starring Miranda Otto, Richard Roxburgh, and Matt Day and directed by Chris Kennedy.-Plot:...
  
  directed by Chris Kennedy
  Chris Kennedy
  Chris Kennedy is an Australian AFI Award winning film director, writer and producer. He owns the film studio, Oilrag Productions. Kennedy is a three-time Australian Film Institute Awards nominee and is an Australian Writer's Guild Award winner. As of 2006, he is one of Australia's most prominent...
  
  
• East Palace, West Palace
  East Palace, West Palace
  East Palace, West Palace is a 1996 Chinese film directed by Zhang Yuan starring Hu Jun, Si Han. It is also known as Behind the Forbidden City or Behind the Palace Gates....
  
  directed by Zhang Yuan
  Zhang Yuan
  Zhang Yuan is a Chinese film director who has been described by film scholars as a pioneering member of China's Sixth Generation of filmmakers...
  
  
• Four Days in September
  Four Days in September
  Four Days in September is a 1997 Brazilian thriller film directed by Bruno Barreto and produced by his parents Lucy and Luiz Carlos Barreto. The film is based on the 1979 memoir "O Que É Isso Companheiro?" written by politician Fernando Gabeira...
  
  directed by Bruno Barreto
  Bruno Barreto
  Bruno Barreto is a Brazilian film director born in Rio de Janeiro. He has been making feature-length films ever since he was seventeen years old and remains one of Brazil’s most accomplished and popular directors to this day...
  
  
• Friend Of The Deceased directed by Viatcheslav Krichtofovitch
• Un Frere directed by Sylvie Verheyde
• The Girl with Brains in Her Feet directed by Roberto Bangura
• Gummo
  Gummo
  Gummo is a 1997 American independent drama film written and directed by Harmony Korine. It was his directorial debut and has since become a cult film. The film stars Jacob Reynolds, Nick Sutton, Jacob Sewell, Chloë Sevigny, Linda Manz and Max Perlich...
  
  directed by Harmony Korine
  Harmony Korine
  The story is told from the perspective of a young man suffering from untreated schizophrenia, played by Ewen Bremner, as he tries to understand his deteriorating world. Julien's abusive father is played by Werner Herzog...
  
  
• Hanoi - Winter 1946 directed by Dhang Nhat Minh
• Happy Together directed by Wong Kar-wai
  Wong Kar-wai
  Wong Kar-wai BBS is a Hong Kong Second Wave filmmaker, internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually unique, highly stylized, emotionally resonant work, including Days of Being Wild , Ashes of Time , Chungking Express , Fallen Angels , Happy Together and 2046...
  
  
• Heaven's Burning
  Heaven's Burning
  Heaven's Burning is a 1997 Australian film directed by Craig Lahiff and written by Louis Nowra.-Plot:Midori Takada arrives in Sydney with her new husband Yukio . She believes her marriage is a mistake and uses the honeymoon as a means to escape by walking out of their hotel room...
  
  directed by Craig Lahiff
• Homesick Eyes directed by Hsu Hsiao-Ming
• I Think I Do directed by Brian Sloan
  Brian Sloan
  Brian Keith Sloan was a high school and college basketball player during the 1980s. Sloan, a high school center, led McLeansboro High School to an undefeated season in the 1984, Class A IHSA basketball championship. He averaged 20.5 points and 13.6 rebounds per game during the tournament...
  
  
• In with the New directed by Oskar Roehler
  Oskar Roehler
  Oskar Roehler is a German film director, screen writer and journalist. He was born in Starnberg as the son of writer Gisela Elsner and the writer Klaus Roehler. Since the mid-1980s he has been working as a screenwriter, for, among others, Niklaus Schilling, Christoph Schlingensief and Mark...
  
  
• Inside/Out directed by Rob Tregenza
  Rob Tregenza
  Robert Tregenza is an American cinematographer and film director. Besides shooting his own projects, Tregenza has also worked as a director of photography with other directors, including Alex Cox and Béla Tarr Robert Tregenza (born November 14, 1950) is an American cinematographer and film...
  
  
• Insomnia
  Insomnia (1997 film)
  Insomnia is a 1997 Norwegian thriller film about a police detective investigating a murder in a town located above the Arctic Circle. The investigation goes horribly wrong when he mistakenly shoots his partner and subsequently attempts to cover up his bungle...
  
  directed by Erik Skjoldbjaerg
• The James Gang directed by Mike Barker
  Mike Barker (film director)
  - Filmography :*Butterfly on a Wheel *A Good Woman *To Kill a King *Lorna Doone *Best Laid Plans *The James Gang - External links :*...
  
  
• Junk Food directed by Masashi Yamamoto
  Masashi Yamamoto
  is a Japanese film director.-Career:Born in Ōita Prefecture, Yamamoto attended Meiji University but left early to concentrate on making independent 8mm films. His Carnival in the Night screened at the 1983 Berlin Film Festival and Robinson's Garden was given the Zitty Award at 1987 edition of the...
  
  
• Junk Mail
  Junk Mail (film)
  Junk Mail is a Norwegian film made in 1997. The film won many awards including Best Actress for Eli Anne Linnestad, Best Actor for Robert Skjærstad and Best Film for Pål Sletaune at the Amanda Awards in Norway and the Mercedes-Benz award at the Cannes Film Festival.The film makes evocative use of...
  
  directed by Pal Sletaune
• Keep The Aspidistra Flying
  Keep the Aspidistra Flying
  Keep the Aspidistra Flying, first published 1936, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell. It is set in 1930s London. The main theme is Gordon Comstock's romantic ambition to defy worship of the money-god and status, and the dismal life that results....
  
  directed by Robert Bierman
  Robert Bierman
  Robert Bierman is a British film and television director.Bierman was originally scheduled to direct The Fly , but due to personal tragedy was unable to commit to the project. In 1989 he directed Vampire's Kiss...
  
  
• Kiss or Kill directed by Bill Bennett
  Bill Bennett (director)
  Bill Bennett is an Australian film director, producer and screenwriter.-Biography:He has directed 16 films since 1983. His film Backlash was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival. Three years later his film Malpractice would be screened in the same section at...
  
  
• Labyrinth of Dreams directed by Sogo Ishii
  Sogo Ishii
  ', formerly is a Japanese filmmaker known for his striking visuals and sometimes outlandish subject matter.Ishii was born in Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, and is a graduate of Fukuoka Prefectural Fukuoka High School and Nihon University College of Art....
  
  
• The Leading Hand directed by Masahiro Muramatsu
• Long Twilight directed by Attila Janisch
• Love and Death on Long Island
  Love and Death on Long Island
  Love and Death on Long Island is a 1997 UK / Canadian film directed by Richard Kwietniowski and starring Jason Priestley, John Hurt, Fiona Loewi, Sheila Hancock and Anne Reid....
  
  directed by Richard Kwietniowski
  Richard Kwietniowski
  Richard Kwietniowski is an English film director and screenwriter of Polish descent. During the 1980s he was a film lecturer at Bulmershe College of Higher Education Richard Kwietniowski (born 17 March 1957) is an English film director and screenwriter of Polish descent. During the 1980s he was a...
  
  
• Ma vie en rose
  Ma vie en rose
  Ma vie en rose is a 1997 Belgian film directed by Alain Berliner. It tells the story of Ludovic , a child who was born male but consistently insists that she is supposed to be a girl...
  
  directed by Alain Berliner
  Alain Berliner
  Alain Berliner is a Belgian director best known for the 1997 film Ma vie en rose, which won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 55th Golden Globe Awards in 1998...
  
  
• The Maker directed by Tim Hunter
  Tim Hunter (director)
  Tim Hunter is an American television and film director. Since the late 1980s he has mostly worked on television, directing episodes for dozens of televisions series includingBreaking Bad,Carnivàle,...
  
  
• The Man in Her Life directed by Carlos Siguion-Reyna
• Marius et Jeanette directed by Robert Guediguian
  Robert Guédiguian
  Robert Jules Guédiguian is a French film director, actor, screenwriter and producer. Most of his films star Ariane Ascaride and Jean-Pierre Darroussin....
  
  
• Metroland
  Metroland (1997 film)
  Metroland is a 1997 British film starring Christian Bale and Emily Watson. It was directed by Philip Saville and written by Adrian Hodges, based on the 1980 novel by Julian Barnes...
  
  directed by Philip Saville
  Philip Saville
  Philip Saville is a British television direction and screenwriting from the late 1950s...
  
  
• The Mirror
  The Mirror (1997 film)
  The Mirror is a 1997 Iranian film directed by Jafar Panahi, about a little girl trying to find her way home from school.-Plot:Mina, a young girl, finds her mother has failed to pick her up from school, so she decides to walk home on her own. The movie is about her endeavor to find her way home...
  
  directed by Jafar Panahi
  Jafar Panahi
  Jafar Panahi is an Iranian filmmaker and is one of the most influential filmmakers in the Iranian New Wave movement. He has gained recognition from film theorists and critics worldwide and received numerous awards including the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and the Silver Bear at the...
  
  
• Misfortune's End directed by Vu Xuan Hung
• Murmur of Youth directed by Lin Cheng-Sheng
  Lin Cheng-sheng
  Lin Cheng-sheng is a Taiwanese film director.- Director :*A Drifting Life *Murmur of Youth *Sweet Degeneration *March of Happiness *Betelnut Beauty *Robinson's Crusoe...
  
  
• The Myth of Fingerprints
  The Myth of Fingerprints
  The Myth of Fingerprints is a 1997 American drama written and directed by Bart Freundlich and stars his real-life wife Julianne Moore.The film is named after track 11, "All Around the World or the Myth of the Fingerprints" on Paul Simon's Graceland album, released in August 1986...
  
  directed by Bart Freundlich
  Bart Freundlich
  Bartholomew "Bart" Freundlich is an American film, television director, screenwriter and film producer.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Nettoyage à sec directed by Anne Fontaine
  Anne Fontaine (filmmaker)
  Anne Fontaine is a filmmaker and screenwriter who used to be an actor. She lives and works in France.Born Fontaine Sibertin-Blanc, sister of actor Jean-Chrétien Sibertin-Blanc, she went as a young child to live in Lisbon, where her father, Antoine Sibertin-Blanc, is a music professor and cathedral...
  
  
• No Child of Mine directed by Peter Kosminsky
  Peter Kosminsky
  Peter Kosminsky is a British writer, director and producer. He has directed Hollywood movies such as White Oleander and television films like Warriors, The Government Inspector and The Promise.- Biography :...
  
  
• Obsession directed by Peter Sehr
• Okke-Ke Bibirobos directed by Takuji Suzuki
• Onibi: The Fire Within directed by Rokuro Mochizuki
  Rokuro Mochizuki
  is a Japanese film director who has worked in pink film, adult videos and mainstream cinema. He won the award for Best Director at the 19th Yokohama Film Festival for Onibi and A Yakuza in Love.-Early career - Pink film:...
  
  
• Our Boy directed by David M. Evans
  David M. Evans
  David Mickey Evans is a screenwriter and film director. His films tend to be based around children and focus on the challenges of childhood. Evans is also a huge baseball fan and co-wrote The Sandlot.-Life and career:...
  
  
• The Oyster and the Wind (A Ostra e o Vento) directed by Walter Lima Jr.
• Paradise Ashes (Cenizas del Paraiso) directed by Marcelo Pioeyro
• Passage directed by Juraj Herz
• Port Djema directed by Eric Heumann
• Post Coitum, Animal Triste
  Post Coitum, Animal Triste
  After Sex is a 1997 film by French director Brigitte Roüan.Roüan stars in the film as Diane Clovier, a married mother of two who has an affair with the friend of a young writer she is mentoring...
  
  directed by Brigitte Rouan
  Brigitte Roüan
  Brigitte Roüan is a French film director and actress.-Early life and career:Rouan was born into a French naval family in Toulon in 1946. She was orphaned at age six and spent her childhood in Algeria and Senegal. At age 12, she left for convent school in Paris.Her acting career began at age 21, on...
  
  
• Private Confessions directed by Liv Ullmann
  Liv Ullmann
  Liv Johanne Ullmann is a Norwegian actress and film director, as well as one of the "muses" of the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman...
  
  
• Rizal in Dapitan directed by Amable "Tikoy" Aguiluz
• The Rocking Horse Winner directed by Michael Almereyda
  Michael Almereyda
  Michael Almereyda is an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. His most well known work is Hamlet , starring Ethan Hawke.-Early life:...
  
  
• The Soong Sisters
  The Soong Sisters (film)
  The Soong Sisters is a 1997 Hong Kong film dramatization of the lives of the Soong sisters from 1911 to 1949. The three sisters married the most important historical figures during the founding of new China, making the family the focal point of every important major decision made in modern...
  
  directed by Mabel Cheung
  Mabel Cheung
  Mabel Cheung is one of the leading film directors in Hong Kong. She was elected "Freshman's Queen" when she was studying undergrad at the University of Hong Kong, and was an avid sportswoman representing Lady Ho Tung Hall and HKU...
  
  
• Stolen Moments (Momentos Robados) directed by Oscar Barney Finn
  Oscar Barney Finn
  Oscar Barney Finn is an Argentine film director and screenwriter. He directed seven films between 1974 and 1997. His 1985 film Count to Ten was entered into the 35th Berlin International Film Festival.-Filmography:...
  
  
• Sue directed by Amos Kollek
  Amos Kollek
  Amos Kollek is an Israeli film director, writer and actor.-Biography:Amos Kollek was born in Jerusalem. He is the son of Teddy Kollek, the long-time mayor of Jerusalem. Kollek studied psychology and philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He became interested in film after working as a...
  
  
• Suzaku directed by Naomi Kawase
• Telling Lies In America
  Telling Lies in America (film)
  Telling Lies in America is a 1997 drama film directed by Guy Ferland and written by Joe Eszterhas.-Plot:Karchy Jonas is a 17 year old high school student trying to find his way in the world. He meets radio personality Billy Magic who takes him under his wing...
  
  directed by Guy Ferland
  Guy Ferland
  Guy Ferland is an American film and television director.-Career:After Alfred Hitchcock's 1946 film Notorious inspired him to become a filmmaker, Ferland went on to study cinema production at the University of Southern California's School of Cinema and Television, graduating in 1988, and received...
  
  
• Their Last Love Affair directed by Lee Myung-Sae
• They Call Me Joy directed by Carlos Sigiuon-Reyna
• Thirteen directed by David Williams
• Touch Me directed by H. Gordon Boos
• Touch Me Not directed by Dimitrios Yatzouzakis
• La Vérité si je mens!
  La Vérité si je mens!
  La Vérité si je mens ! is a 1997 French film directed by Thomas Gilou. The plot takes place in Paris and features Eddie Vuibert , an unemployed man in financial difficulty. A rich Jewish cloth manufacturer takes Eddie into his corporation out of pity because he mistakenly believes him to be Jewish...
  
  directed by Thomas Gilou
• Vertical Love (Amor Vertical) directed by Arturo Soto
• La vie de Jésus directed by Bruno Dumont
  Bruno Dumont
  Bruno Dumont is a French film director. To date, he has directed five feature films, all of which border somewhere between realistic drama and the avant-garde. His films have won several awards at the Cannes Film Festival. Two of Dumont's films have won the Grand Prix award: both L'Humanité and...
  
  
• Le voleur de diagonale directed by Jean Darrigol
• We All Fall Down directed by Davide Ferrario
• Western directed by Manuel Poirier
  Manuel Poirier
  Manuel Poirier is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed 15 films since 1984. His film Western won the Jury Prize at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* La première journée de Nicolas...
  
  
• Wintersleepers
  Wintersleepers
  Wintersleepers is a 1997 German film directed by Tom Tykwer. It was premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival.-Plot:The film is set in the deeply snowy alpine winter resort of Berchtesgaden in Bavaria; the story begins shortly after Christmas Day, with five people returning, not all of...
  
  directed by Tom Tykwer
  Tom Tykwer
  Tom Tykwer is a German film director, screenwriter, and composer. He is best known internationally for directing Run Lola Run , Heaven , Perfume: The Story of a Murderer , and The International ....
  
  
• The Witman Boys directed by Janos Szasz
  János Szász
  János Szász is an Hungarian film director, screenwriter and theater director. He has directed eleven films since 1983. His film Witman fiúk was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. Szász was the Director of the American Repertory Theater Institute and a...
  
  
• Wolves Cry Under the Moon
  Wolves Cry Under the Moon
  Wolves Cry Under the Moon is a 1997 film directed by Ho Ping, starring Annie Shizuka Inoh, Shih Chang, Gu Bao-ming and To Tzong-hua....
  
  directed by Ho Ping
  Ho Ping
  Ho Ping Ho Ping Ho Ping (何平, pinyin: Hé Píng, born in 1958 in Hsinchu, Taiwan, Republic of China is a film director. He graduated from Chemical Engineering of Tunghai University. Because of his interest in art and painting, he studied film making in the US after graduated. In 1987, he got MFA...
  
  
• Yours and Mine directed by Wang Shaudi

Discovery

• Bandits
  Bandits (1997 film)
  Bandits is a 1997 German Road Movie and Music-Film directed by Katja von Garnier. The film stars Katja Riemann, Jasmin Tabatabai, Nicolette Krebitz and Jutta Hoffman...
  
  directed by Katja von Garnier
  Katja von Garnier
  Katja von Garnier is a German film director.-Biography:From 1989-1994, she studied at the University of Television and Film Munich. Her 1993 practice film Abgeschminkt! was shown in theatres all over Germany and attracted 1.2 million visitors...
  
  
• Belly Up directed by Beto Brant
• Clockwatchers
  Clockwatchers
  Clockwatchers is an American comedy-drama film released in 1997. Directed by Jill Sprecher, it stars Parker Posey, Lisa Kudrow, Toni Collette and Alanna Ubach as temporary office staffers in an office complex....
  
  directed by Jill Sprecher
  Jill Sprecher
  -Biography:A graduate from University of Wisconsin–Madison with a degree in philosophy and literature, Sprecher relocated to New York to study film....
  
  
• First Love, Last Rites
  First Love, Last Rites
  First Love, Last Rites is a collection of short stories by Ian McEwan. It was first published in 1975 by Jonathan Cape and re-issued in 1997 by Vintage.- Context :...
  
  directed by Jesse Peretz
  Jesse Peretz
  Jesse Peretz is an American bass guitar player, feature film director, and Grammy-Award winning music video director.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Guilt Free directed by Marcel Sisniega Campbell
  Marcel Sisniega Campbell
  Marcel Sisniega Campbell is a chess Grandmaster from Mexico. He is also a film writer and director.He is most recognized for his work in creating "Libre de Culpas" in 1997.-External links:...
  
  
• The Impostor directed by Alejandro Maci
• In Praise of Older Women directed by Manuel Lombardero
• Life According to Muriel directed by Eduardo Milewicz
• The Life of Stuff directed by Simon Donald
• Lover Girl directed by Lisa Addario and Joe Syracuse
• Marie Baie des Anges directed by Manuel Pradal
• Martha's Garden directed by Peter Liechti
• Perfumed Ball directed by Lírio Ferreira and Paulo Caldas
• Scars directed by James Herbert
  James Herbert (director)
  James Herbert is an American painter and director most known for directing a series of classic music videos for the band R.E.M.. He has also made over forty short films, including John Five and Jumbo Aqua , and directed four independent features: Scars , Speedy Boys , Rabbit Pix and Abandoned...
  
  
• Somersault in a Coffin
  Somersault in a Coffin
  Somersault in a Coffin is a 1996 Turkish comedy-drama film, written and directed by Derviş Zaim, about a homeless criminal and car thief. The film, which was released on , received awards at several international film festivals including the Golden Orange for best film at the Antalya International...
  
  directed by Derviş Zaim
  Dervis Zaim
  Derviş Zaim is a Turkish Cypriot filmmaker and novelist, who has twice won the Golden Orange for Best Director for Elephants and Grass and Dot ; Golden Oranges for Best Film and Best Screenplay for Somersault in a Coffin ; and the Yunus Nadi literary prize for his debut novel Ares in Wonderland...
  
  
• The Sticky Fingers of Time directed by Hilary Brougher
• Stone, Scissors, Paper directed by Stephen Whittaker
  Stephen Whittaker
  Stephen Whittaker was a British actor and director. He worked largely in British film and television.In 2001 he filmed his final project The Rocket Post, a romantic drama set on a remote Scottish island...
  
  
• Traveler from the South directed by Parviz Shahbazi
  Parviz Shahbazi
  -Biography:Shahbazi is a graduate of filmmaking from Tehran's Iran Broadcasting College. During the early 80’s he began writing short stories and directing short films...
  
  
• Twenty Four Seven
  Twenty Four Seven (film)
  Twenty Four Seven is a 1997 film directed and written by Shane Meadows. It was co-written by frequent Meadows collaborator Paul Fraser.-Plot:In a typical English working-class town, the juveniles have nothing more to do than hang around in gangs...
  
  directed by Shane Meadows
  Shane Meadows
  Shane Meadows is an English film director, screenwriter, occasional actor and BAFTA winner.-Background:Meadows grew up in the Westlands Road area of Uttoxeter, Staffordshire. His father was a long distance lorry driver and his mother worked in a fish and chip shop...
  
  
• Under the Skin
  Under the Skin (film)
  Under the Skin is a 1997 drama film written and directed by Carine Adler starring Samantha Morton. It tells the story of two sisters coping with the death of their mother. One sister, Rose , who is married and pregnant, manages to get on with her life...
  
  directed by Carine Adler
  Carine Adler
  Carine Adler, Lady Reid of Cardowan is a Brazilian screenwriter and film director.She is probably best known as the second wife of British government minister Dr John Reid, Baron Reid, whom she married in 2002...
  
  
• Unmade Beds directed by Nicholas Barker
• Who the Hell is Juliette?
  Who the Hell is Juliette?
  Who the Hell is Juliette? is a Mexican 1997 documentary film directed by Carlos Marcovich and written by Marcovich and Carlos Cuarón. The film is about Yuliet Ortega, a teen prostitute who lives in Havana, Cuba and Fabiola Quiroz, a Mexican model...
  
  directed by Carlos Marcovich
• Words of Wisdom directed by Susanna Fogel

Planet Africa

• Breeze directed by Barbara Sanon
• Buud Yam
  Buud Yam
  Buud Yam is a 1997 Burkinabé historical drama film written and directed by Gaston Kaboré. As of 2001, it was the most popular African film ever in Burkina Faso.-Plot:...
  
  directed by Gaston Kaboré
  Gaston Kaboré
  Gaston Kaboré is a Burkinabé film director and an important figure in Burkina Faso's film industry. He has won awards for his films Wend Kuuni and Buud Yam.-Biography:Kaboré was born in 1951 in Bobo-Dioulasso in Upper Volta....
  
  
• Le Damier directed by Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda
• Dancehall Queen directed by Don Letts
  Don Letts
  Don Letts is a British film director and musician. He is credited as the man who through his DJing at clubs like The Roxy brought together punk and reggae music.-Biography:...
  
   and Rick Elgood
• Destiny directed by Youssef Chahine
  Youssef Chahine
  Youssef Chahine was an Egyptian film director active in the Egyptian film industry since 1950. He was credited with launching the career of actor Omar Sharif...
  
  
• Fools directed by Ramadan Suleman
• Hav Plenty directed by Christopher Scott Cherot
  Christopher Scott Cherot
  Christopher Scott Cherot , born November, 1967, in The Bronx, New York, is an American film director best known for Hav Plenty , a true story that he wrote, edited, produced, acted in and directed.-Projects:Mr...
  
  
• Honey And Ashes directed by Nadia Fares
  Nadia Farès
  Nadia Farès is a French actress. She rose to international fame in the successful police thriller Les Rivières pourpres . She also appeared as Jade Agent Kinler in the 2007 action/thriller, War and as Pia in 2007 horror film Storm Warning.-External links:...
  
  
• Martin Luther King: Days Of Hope directed by John Akomfrah
• Mossane directed by Safi Faye
  Safi Faye
  Safi Faye is a Senegalese film director and ethnologist. She was the first Sub-Saharan African woman to direct a commercially distributed feature film. She has directed several documentary and fiction films focussing on rural life in Senegal.-Early life and education:Safi Faye was born in 1943 in...
  
  
• Sabriya directed by Abderrahmane Sissako
  Abderrahmane Sissako
  Abderrahmane Sissako is an award-winning film director and producer who has often worked in Mali and France. Sissako is, along with Ousmane Sembène, Souleymane Cissé, Idrissa Ouedraogo and Djibril Diop Mambety, one of the few filmmakers from Sub-Saharan Africa to reach a measure of international...
  
  
• Taafe Fanga directed by Adama Drabo
  Adama Drabo
  Adama Drabo was a Malian filmmaker and playwright.- Biography :Adama Drabo showed an interest in film since his childhood in the Malian capital of Bamako...
  
  
• Through The Door Of No Return directed by Shirikiana Aina
• To Be A Black Man directed by Nelson George
  Nelson George
  Nelson George is an African American author, columnist, music and culture critic, journalist, and filmmaker. He has been nominated twice for the National Book Critics Circle Award....
  
  

Real To Reel

• Best Man: 'Best Boy' And All Of Us Twenty Years Later directed by Ira Wohl
• Chile, The Obstinate Memory (Chile, La Memoria Obstinada) directed by Patricio Guzmán
  Patricio Guzmán
  Patricio Guzmán Lozanes is a Chilean documentary film director. He is internationally renowned for films such as The Battle of Chile and Salvador Allende....
  
  
• Cinema De Notre Temps: Hou Hsiao-Hsien directed by Olivier Assayas
  Olivier Assayas
  Olivier Assayas is a French film director and screenwriter.He made his debut in 1986, after directing some short films and writing for the influential film magazine Cahiers du cinéma.-Career:...
  
  
• Didn't Do It For Love directed by Monika Treut
  Monika Treut
  Monika Treut is an openly lesbian German filmmaker.In the mid-1970s she began working with video. She founded Hyena Filmproduktion together with Elfi Mikesch in 1984, and began producing, writing, and directing independent feature films....
  
  
• Exile In Sarajevo directed by Tahir Cambis and Alma Sahbaz
• Exile Shanghai directed by Ulrike Ottinger
  Ulrike Ottinger
  Ulrike Ottinger is a German filmmaker, documentarian photographer and professor at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.-Biography:From 1959 she was a visiting student at the Academy of Arts in Munich and worked as a painter...
  
  
• From Son To Salsa (Yo Soy Del Son A La Salsa) directed by Rigoberto Lopez
• Full Tilt Boogie
  Full Tilt Boogie
  Full Tilt Boogie is a 1997 documentary directed by Sarah Kelly. It chronicles the production of the 1996 film From Dusk Till Dawn.It features extensive interviews with the cast and crew covering a variety of topics related to the film. This includes the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage...
  
  directed by Sarah Kelly
  Sarah Kelly
  Sarah Kelly is a contemporary Christian artist from Rockford, Illinois. She was signed to Gotee Records, a Christian label under EMI. Kelly is a two time Grammy Award nominee for albums "Take Me Away" and Where The Past Meets Today in the category of Best Rock Or Rap Gospel Album...
  
  
• Marcello Mastroianni, I Remember, Yes, I Remember directed by Anna Maria Tato
  Anna Maria Tatò
  Anna Maria Tatò is an Italian film director. She directed six films between 1978 and 1997. Her film Marcello Mastroianni: mi ricordo, sì, io mi ricordo was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival....
  
  
• My House Is On Fire (La Casa De Fuego) directed by Ariel Dorfman
  Ariel Dorfman
  Vladimiro Ariel Dorfman is an Argentine-Chilean novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist. A citizen of the United States since 2004, he has been a professor of literature and Latin American Studies at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina since 1985.-Personal...
  
   and Rodrigo Dorfman
  Rodrigo Dorfman
  Rodrigo Dorfman is a multimedia filmmaker.He has worked with his father Ariel Dorfman on films including "My House is on Fire"....
  
  
• Personal Memoir Of Hong Kong: As Time Goes By directed by Ann Hui
  Ann Hui
  Ann Hui On-Wah is a Hong Kong film director, film producer and occasional screenwriter, one of the most critically acclaimed amongst the Hong Kong New Wave.-Early life:...
  
  
• Personal Memoir Of Hong Kong: Still Love You After All These directed by Stanley Kwan
  Stanley Kwan
  Stanley Kwan is a Hong Kong Second Wave film director and producer.Kwan landed a job at the TVB after receiving a mass communications degree at Hong Kong Baptist College...
  
  
• Robinson In Space directed by Patrick Keiller
  Patrick Keiller
  Patrick Keiller is a British film-maker, writer and lecturer.-Biography:Keiller was born in 1950, in Blackpool and studied at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. In 1979 he joined the Royal College of Art's Department of Environmental Media as a postgraduate student...
  
  

Dialogues: Talking With Pictures

• Detour
  Detour (1945 film)
  Detour is a film noir thriller that stars Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake and Edmund MacDonald. The movie was adapted by Martin Goldsmith and Martin Mooney from Goldsmith's novel of the same name and was directed by Edgar G. Ulmer...
  
  directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, presented by Errol Morris
  Errol Morris
  Errol Mark Morris is an American director. In 2003, The Guardian put him seventh in its list of the world's 40 best directors. Also in 2003, his film The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.-Early life and...
  
  
• The Devil Doll directed by Tod Browning
  Tod Browning
  Tod Browning was an American motion picture actor, director and screenwriter.Browning's career spanned the silent and talkie eras...
  
  , presented by Guy Maddin
  Guy Maddin
  Guy Maddin, OM is a Canadian screenwriter, director, cinematographer and film editor of both features and short films from Winnipeg, Manitoba...
  
  
• Dont Look Back
  Dont Look Back
  Dont Look Back is a 1967 documentary film by D.A. Pennebaker that covers Bob Dylan's 1965 concert tour in the United Kingdom.In 1998, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically...
  
  directed by D.A. Pennebaker, presented by Chris Hegedus
• F For Fake
  F for Fake
  F for Fake is the last major film completed by Orson Welles, who directed, co-wrote, and starred in the film. Initially released in 1974, it focuses on Elmyr de Hory's recounting of his career as a professional art forger; de Hory's story serves as the backdrop for a fast-paced, meandering...
  
  directed by Orson Welles
  Orson Welles
  George Orson Welles , best known as Orson Welles, was an American film director, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television and radio...
  
  , presented by James Toback
  James Toback
  James Lee Toback is an American screenwriter and film director.-Early life:Toback was born in New York City. His mother, Selma Judith , was a President of The League of Women Voters and a moderator of political debates on NBC. His father, Irwin Lionel Toback, was a stockbroker and former...
  
  
• The Firemen's Ball
  The Firemen's Ball
  -External links:*...
  
  directed by Milos Forman
  Miloš Forman
  Jan Tomáš Forman , better known as Miloš Forman , is a Czech-American director, screenwriter, professor, and an emigrant from Czechoslovakia. Two of his films, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus, are among the most celebrated in the history of film, both gaining him the Academy Award for...
  
  , presented by Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
• Les Girls
  Les Girls
  Les Girls, also known as Cole Porter's Les Girls, is a 1957 musical comedy film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by George Cukor, produced by Sol C...
  
  directed by George Cukor
  George Cukor
  George Dewey Cukor was an American film director. He mainly concentrated on comedies and literary adaptations. His career flourished at RKO and later MGM, where he directed What Price Hollywood? , A Bill of Divorcement , Dinner at Eight , Little Women , David Copperfield , Romeo and Juliet and...
  
  , presented by Jaime Humberto Hermosillo
  Jaime Humberto Hermosillo
  Jaime Humberto Hermosillo is a Mexican film director, often compared to Spain's Pedro Almodóvar.Born in Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, in center Mexico, Hermosillo's films often explore the hypocrisy of middle-class Mexican values....
  
  
• One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)
  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a 1975 American drama film directed by Miloš Forman and based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Ken Kesey....
  
  directed by Milos Forman
  Miloš Forman
  Jan Tomáš Forman , better known as Miloš Forman , is a Czech-American director, screenwriter, professor, and an emigrant from Czechoslovakia. Two of his films, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus, are among the most celebrated in the history of film, both gaining him the Academy Award for...
  
  , presented by Chow Yun-fat
  Chow Yun-Fat
  Chow Yun-fat, SBS is an actor from Hong Kong. He is best known in Asia for his collaboration with filmmaker John Woo in heroic bloodshed genre films A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, and Hard Boiled; and to the West for his role as Li Mu-bai in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon...
  
  
• The Organizer directed by Mario Monicelli
  Mario Monicelli
  Mario Monicelli was an Italian director and screenwriter and one of the masters of the Commedia all'Italiana , three times nominated for Oscar.-Biography:...
  
  , presented by John Sayles
  John Sayles
  John Thomas Sayles is an American independent film director, screenwriter and author.-Early life:Sayles was born in Schenectady, New York, the son of Mary , a teacher, and Donald John Sayles, a school administrator. He was raised Catholic and took to labeling himself "a Catholic atheist"...
  
  
• Stairway to Heaven (A Matter of Life and Death) directed by Michael Powell
  Michael Powell (director)
  Michael Latham Powell was a renowned English film director, celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger...
  
   and Emeric Pressburger
  Emeric Pressburger
  Emeric Pressburger was a Hungarian-British screenwriter, film director, and producer. He is best known for his series of film collaborations with Michael Powell, in a multiple-award-winning partnership known as The Archers and produced a series of classic British films, notably 49th Parallel , The...
  
  , presented by Sally Potter
  Sally Potter
  Charlotte Sally Potter is an English film director and screenwriter.-Career:Having left school at sixteen to become a filmmaker, Potter joined the London Film-Makers' Co-op and started making experimental short films, including Jerk and Play...
  
  

Balkan Cinema: Home Truths

• Across The Lake directed by Antonio Mitrikeski
• Awkward Age directed by Nenad Dizdarević
  Nenad Dizdarevic
  Nenad Dizdarević is a film director, screenwriter, producer, and teacher of cinema from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. His most notable film, Magarece godine , was the Bosnian submission to the Academy Awards in 1995...
  
  
• Belated Full Moon directed by Eduard Sachariev
  Eduard Sachariev
  Eduard Sachariev was a Bulgarian film director and screenwriter. He directed 15 films between 1962 and 1996. His 1986 film My Darling, My Darling was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival.-External links:...
  
  
• The Days Are Passing (Zemaljski dani teku) directed by Goran Paskaljević
  Goran Paskaljevic
  Goran Paskaljević is a Serbian film director. He was raised by his grandparents in Niš, following the divorce of his parents, and 14 years later returned to Belgrade where he worked in his stepfather's cinema....
  
   (1979)
• The End Of The War directed by Dragan Kresoja
  Dragan Kresoja
  Dragan Kresoja was a Serbian film director. After working as an assistant director on a number of Yugoslav television and feature film productions throughout the 1970s he began directing in the early 1980s...
  
  
• Un Été Inoubliable (An Unforgettable Summer) directed by Lucian Pintilie
  Lucian Pintilie
  -Filmography:* Duminică la ora şase * Reconstituirea * Salonul numărul 6 * De ce trag clopotele, Mitică? - see also the "Portrayals and tributes" section at Mitică* Balanţa * O vară de neuitat * Prea târziu...
  
  
• Felix directed by Božo Šprajc
• The Goat Horn
  The Goat Horn
  The Goat Horn is a 1972 Bulgarian drama film directed by Metodi Andonov. The film was selected as the Bulgarian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 45th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.-Cast:* Katya Paskaleva as Maria...
  
  directed by Metodi Andonov
  Metodi Andonov
  -Selected filmography:* Byalata staya * Nyama nishto po-hubavo ot loshoto vreme * The Goat Horn * Golyamata skuka -External links:...
  
  
• How the War Started on My Island
  How the War Started on My Island
  How the War Started on My Island is a 1996 Croatian black comedy film directed by Vinko Brešan and starring Vlatko Dulić, Ljubomir Kerekeš, Ivan Brkić, Predrag Vušović, Ivica Vidović, Božidar Orešković and Matija Prskalo...
  
  (Kako je počeo rat na mom otoku) directed by Vinko Brešan
  Vinko Brešan
  Vinko Brešan is a Croatian film director who emerged into international renown with three critically acclaimed and award-winning films that, each in its own way, broke some of the perceived taboos of Croatian cinema in the 1990s....
  
   (1996)
• The Perfect Circle
  The Perfect Circle
  The Perfect Circle is a 1997 Bosnian film by Ademir Kenović set in Sarajevo during the siege of 1992-1996. It was screenplayed by Kenović with Pjer Žalica and the poet Abdulah Sidran. The scenographer was Kemal Hrustanović...
  
  (Savršeni krug) directed by Ademir Kenović
  Ademir Kenovic
  Ademir Kenović is a Bosnian film director and producer. He graduated from the University of Sarajevo in 1969 and then studied film, English literature and art at the Denison University in Ohio, graduating in 1989. His films include Kuduz and It's Hard to be Nice...
  
   (1997)
• Petria's Wreath
  Petria's Wreath
  Petria's Wreath , is a 1980 Yugoslav film directed by Srđan Karanović.It won the Big Golden Arena for Best Film, with Mirjana Karanović picking up the Golden Arena for Best Actress at the 1980 Pula Film Festival....
  
  (Petrijin venac) directed by Srđan Karanović (1980)
• Pretty Village, Pretty Flame
  Pretty Village, Pretty Flame
  Pretty Village, Pretty Flame is a 1996 Yugoslavian film directed by Srđan Dragojević that gave uniquely bleak yet darkly humorous account of the Bosnian War.It is considered a modern classic of Serbian cinema...
  
  (Lepa sela lepo gore) directed by Srđan Dragojević (1996)
• Thalassa, Thalassa, Return To The Sea directed by Bogdan Dumitrescu
• Tired Companions directed by Zoran Solomun
• Tito and Me
  Tito and Me
  Tito and Me is a 1992 Yugoslavian comedy film by Serbian director Goran Marković. The film was made during one of the most difficult periods in the history of the Balkans. Its quirky humor has marked the beginning of the end for the country it celebrates and unmercifully criticizes at the same...
  
  (Tito i ja) directed by Goran Marković (1992)
• Underground (Podzemlje) directed by Emir Kusturica
  Emir Kusturica
  Emir Nemanja Kusturica , is a Serbian filmmaker, actor and musician, recognized for several internationally acclaimed feature films...
  
   (1995)
• Vukovar Poste Restante directed by Boro Drašković
  Boro Drašković
  Boro Drašković born May 29, 1935 in Sarajevo, Kingdom of Yugoslavia is a Serbian director, playwright and screenwriter.- Biography :...
  
  
• Who's Singin' Over There? directed by Slobodan Šijan
  Slobodan Šijan
  Slobodan Šijan is a Serbian film director.After graduating film direction and directing a handful of TV movies in the late 1970s, he caught a big break with his first full-length feature Ko to tamo peva in 1980...
  
  
• W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism
  W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism
  W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism is a 1971 film by Yugoslav director Dušan Makavejev that explores the relationship between communist politics and sexuality, as well as exploring the life and work of Wilhelm Reich.-Narrative and documentary elements:The film intercuts documentary footage with,...
  
  directed by Dušan Makavejev
  Dušan Makavejev
  Dušan Makavejev is a Serbian film director and screenwriter, famous for his groundbreaking films of Yugoslav cinema in the late 1960s and early 1970s...
  
  

Directors' Spotlight: Benoît Jacquot

• L'Assassin Musicien
  The Musician Killer
  The Musician Killer is a 1976 French drama film directed by Benoît Jacquot and starring Anna Karina.-Cast:* Anna Karina - Louise* Joël Bion - Gilles* Hélène Coulomb - Anne* Gunars Larsens - Storm* Philippe March - Le directeur...
  
  directed by Benoît Jacquot
  Benoît Jacquot
  Benoît Jacquot is a French film director who has had a varied career in European cinema.Born in Paris, he began his career as assistant director of Marguerite Duras films including Nathalie Granger, India Song and also actor in the 1973 short film La Sœur du cadre.He turned to writing and...
  
  
• Corps Et Biens directed by Benoît Jacquot
  Benoît Jacquot
  Benoît Jacquot is a French film director who has had a varied career in European cinema.Born in Paris, he began his career as assistant director of Marguerite Duras films including Nathalie Granger, India Song and also actor in the 1973 short film La Sœur du cadre.He turned to writing and...
  
  
• La Desenchantee directed by Benoît Jacquot
  Benoît Jacquot
  Benoît Jacquot is a French film director who has had a varied career in European cinema.Born in Paris, he began his career as assistant director of Marguerite Duras films including Nathalie Granger, India Song and also actor in the 1973 short film La Sœur du cadre.He turned to writing and...
  
  
• La Fille seule
  La Fille seule
  Benoît Jacquot's A Single Girl follows a day in the life of a young Parisian woman named Valérie who begins a new job at a four star hotel the same day she reveals to her boyfriend that she is pregnant...
  
  directed by Benoît Jacquot
  Benoît Jacquot
  Benoît Jacquot is a French film director who has had a varied career in European cinema.Born in Paris, he began his career as assistant director of Marguerite Duras films including Nathalie Granger, India Song and also actor in the 1973 short film La Sœur du cadre.He turned to writing and...
  
  
• Marianne directed by Benoît Jacquot
  Benoît Jacquot
  Benoît Jacquot is a French film director who has had a varied career in European cinema.Born in Paris, he began his career as assistant director of Marguerite Duras films including Nathalie Granger, India Song and also actor in the 1973 short film La Sœur du cadre.He turned to writing and...
  
  
• Le Septieme Ciel directed by Benoît Jacquot
  Benoît Jacquot
  Benoît Jacquot is a French film director who has had a varied career in European cinema.Born in Paris, he began his career as assistant director of Marguerite Duras films including Nathalie Granger, India Song and also actor in the 1973 short film La Sœur du cadre.He turned to writing and...
  
  

Midnight Madness

• A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation
  A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation
  A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation is a 1997 Hong Kong animated film. It was the first Chinese animated feature film from Hong Kong...
  
  directed by Tsui Hark
  Tsui Hark
  Tsui Hark , born Tsui Man-kong, is a Hong Kong New Wave film director and producer. He is viewed as a major figure in the Golden Age of Hong Kong cinema .-Early life:...
  
  
• Fudoh: The Generation
  Fudoh: The New Generation
  Fudoh: The New Generation is a Japanese movie directed by Takashi Miike. Two sequels followed, neither of which was directed by Miike. The film is based on a manga. Time Magazine listed Fudoh as one of its ten best movies of 1997.-Plot:Riki Fudoh's brother was killed by his father at the request...
  
  directed by Takashi Miike
  Takashi Miike
  is a highly prolific and controversial Japanese filmmaker. He has directed over seventy theatrical, video, and television productions since his debut in 1991. In the years 2001 and 2002 alone, Miike is credited with directing fifteen productions...
  
  
• I Married a Strange Person!
  I Married a Strange Person!
  I Married a Strange Person! is a 1997 musical animated feature film by Bill Plympton. When Grant Boyer's satellite TV dish is hit by two birds in mid-coitus, just days before his own wedding, he gains a special secret power. His imagination is no longer something that just goes on in his head -...
  
  directed by Bill Plympton
  Bill Plympton
  William "Bill" Calvin Plympton is an American animator, former cartoonist, director, screenwriter and producer best known for his 1987 Academy Award-nominated animated short Your Face. and his series of shorts Guard Dog, Guide Dog, Hot Dog and Horn Dog.- Biography :Bill Plympton was born in...
  
  
• Love God directed by Frank Grow
• Office Killer
  Office Killer
  Office Killer is a comedy-horror film directed by Cindy Sherman. It was released in 1997 and stars Carol Kane, Molly Ringwald and David Thornton.- Plot :...
  
  directed by Cindy Sherman
  Cindy Sherman
  Cindy Sherman is an American photographer and film director, best known for her conceptual portraits. Sherman currently lives and works in New York City. In 1995, she was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. She is represented by Sprüth Magers Berlin London in and Metro Pictures gallery in...
  
  
• Orgazmo
  Orgazmo
  Orgazmo is a 1997 comedy film written by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of the animated series South Park, and directed by Parker.-Plot:...
  
  directed by Trey Parker
  Trey Parker
  Trey Parker is an American animator, screenwriter, director, producer, voice artist, musician and actor, best known for being the co-creator of the television series South Park along with his creative partner and best friend Matt Stone.Parker started his film career in 1992, making a holiday short...
  
  
• SICK: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
  SICK: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
  SICK: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist is a 1997 documentary film directed by Kirby Dick about Bob Flanagan, a Los Angeles writer, poet, performance artist, comic, and BDSM celebrity, who suffered from and later died of cystic fibrosis...
  
  directed by Kirby Dick
  Kirby Dick
  Kirby Dick is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor. He is best known for directing documentary films. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature for directing Twist of Faith...
  
  
• The Ugly
  The Ugly
  The Ugly is a 1997 New Zealand horror/thriller film, the first feature directed and written by Scott Reynolds. It was nominated for best film awards at festivals in New Zealand, Portugal and the United States.-Plot:...
  
  directed by Scott Reynolds