Galas

• American Beauty
  American Beauty (film)
  American Beauty is a 1999 American drama film directed by Sam Mendes and written by Alan Ball. Kevin Spacey stars as Lester Burnham, a middle-aged magazine writer who has a midlife crisis when he becomes infatuated with his teenage daughter's best friend, Angela...
  
  directed by Sam Mendes
  Sam Mendes
  Samuel Alexander "Sam" Mendes, CBE is an English stage and film director. He is best known for his Academy Award-winning work on his debut film American Beauty and his dark re-inventions of the stage musicals Cabaret , Oliver! , Company and Gypsy . He's currently working on the 23rd James Bond...
  
  
• Anywhere But Here 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 Cider House Rules
  The Cider House Rules (film)
  The Cider House Rules is a 1999 American drama film directed by Lasse Hallström, based on John Irving's novel of the same name. The film won two Academy Awards, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, along with four other nominations at the 72nd Academy Awards...
  
  directed by Lasse Hallstrom
  Lasse Hallström
  Lars Sven "Lasse" Hallström is a Swedish film director. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for My Life as a Dog and later for The Cider House Rules .-Life and career:...
  
  
• Est-Ouest directed by Régis Wargnier
  Régis Wargnier
  Régis Wargnier is a French film director, film producer, screenwriter, actor and film score composer.-Director:*1986 : La Femme de ma vie starring Jane Birkin*1988 : Sueurs froides...
  
  
• Felicia's Journey
  Felicia's Journey
  Felicia's Journey is a 1999 film starring Elaine Cassidy and Bob Hoskins, based on a prize winning 1994 novel by William Trevor. It was directed by Atom Egoyan...
  
  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...
  
  
• The Girl of Your Dreams directed by Fernando Trueba
  Fernando Trueba
  Fernando Trueba is a Spanish book editor, screenwriter, film director and producer.Between 1974 and 1979 worked as a film critic for Spain's leading daily newspaper EL PAIS. In 1980, founded the monthly film magazine CASABLANCA, which he edited and directed during its first two years...
  
  
• Jakob the Liar
  Jakob the Liar
  Jakob the Liar is a 1999 American tragicomedy film directed by Peter Kassovitz and starring Robin Williams, Alan Arkin, Liev Schreiber, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, and Bob Balaban. The movie is set in 1944 in a ghetto in German-occupied Poland in the times of the Holocaust and is based on the book by...
  
  directed by Peter Kassovitz
  Peter Kassovitz
  Peter Kassovitz is a French film director and scriptwriter.He was born in Budapest, Hungary. He left the country at the time of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. He is the father of film director Mathieu Kassovitz....
  
  
• Love in the Mirror directed by Salvatore Maira
• Me Myself I
  Me Myself I (film)
  Me Myself I is a 2000 Australian comedy film.-Plot:Pamela Drury is single and works as a serious journalist. She spends her birthday alone and becomes lonely and reflects upon her life and the choices she made. In a box of photos of old boyfriends, she reflects upon why she broke up with one in...
  
  directed by Pip Karmel
  Pip Karmel
  Philippa Karmel is an Australian filmmaker. As a film editor, she has worked exclusively with director Scott Hicks in a notable collaboration from 1988 through 2007; their work together includes the widely recognized film Shine...
  
  
• Mumford
  Mumford (film)
  Mumford is a 1999 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan. It is set in a small town where a new psychologist gives offbeat advice to the neurotic residents...
  
  directed by Lawrence Kasdan
  Lawrence Kasdan
  Lawrence Edward "Larry" Kasdan is an American film producer, director and screenwriter.-Life and career:Kasdan was born in Miami, Florida, the son of Sylvia Sarah , an employment counselor, and Clarence Norman Kasdan, who managed retail electronics stores.His Brother is the writer/producer Mark...
  
  
• Music of the Heart
  Music of the Heart
  Music of the Heart is a 1999 dramatic film. This film was produced by Craven-Maddalena Films and Miramax Films, and distributed by Buena Vista Distribution.The film stars Meryl Streep, Aidan Quinn, Gloria Estefan, and Angela Bassett...
  
  directed by Wes Craven
  Wes Craven
  Wesley Earl "Wes" Craven is an American actor, film director, writer, producer, perhaps best known as the director of many horror films, particularly slasher films, including the famed A Nightmare on Elm Street and Wes Craven's New Nightmare, featuring the iconic Freddy Krueger character, the...
  
  
• Onegin directed by Martha Fiennes
  Martha Fiennes
  Martha Fiennes is a British film director, writer and producer. An award-winning director, Fiennes is best-known for her films Onegin and Chromophobia .-Career:...
  
  
• Orfeu
  Orfeu
  Orfeu is a 1999 Brazilian film by direct by Carlos Diegues based on the play Orfeu da Conceição by Vinicius de Moraes. It retells the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice. The film sets this legend in the modern context of Rio de Janeiro during Carnival. This film is also considered to be a much...
  
  directed by Carlos Diegues
  Carlos Diegues
  Carlos Diegues, also known as Cacá Diegues, is a Brazilian film director. He is best known as a member of the Cinema Novo movement.-Filmography:* 2010 O Grande Circo Místico...
  
  
• Ride with the Devil directed by Ang Lee
  Ang Lee
  Ang Lee is a Taiwanese film director. Lee has directed a diverse set of films such as Eat Drink Man Woman , Sense and Sensibility , Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon , Hulk , and Brokeback Mountain , for which he won an Academy...
  
  
• Simpatico
  Simpatico (film)
  Simpatico is a 1999 film starring Nick Nolte, Jeff Bridges, Sharon Stone, Catherine Keener, and Albert Finney. It was adapted to the screen based on a 1993 play by American playwright Sam Shepard.-Synopsis:...
  
  directed by Matthew Warchus
  Matthew Warchus
  -Life:Warchus studied music and drama at Bristol University. He has directed for the National Youth Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, Donmar Warehouse, Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal National Theatre, Opera North, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Welsh National Opera, English National Opera and in the West...
  
  
• Snow Falling on Cedars
  Snow Falling on Cedars
  Snow Falling on Cedars is a 1994 novel written by American writer David Guterson. Guterson, who was a teacher at the time, wrote the book in the early morning hours over a ten-year period...
  
  directed by Scott Hicks
  Scott Hicks
  Robert Scott Hicks is a film director from Australia. He is best known as the screenwriter and director of Shine, the Oscar-winning biopic of pianist David Helfgott. Hicks's work has been nominated for an Academy Award as well as winning an Emmy Award.-Personal life:Hicks was born in Uganda, the...
  
  
• Sunshine
  Sunshine (1999 film)
  Sunshine is a 1999 historical film written by Israel Horovitz and István Szabó, directed and produced by István Szabó. It follows three generations of a Jewish family during the changes in Hungary from the beginning of the 20th century to the...
  
  directed by István Szabó
  István Szabó
  István Szabó is a Hungarian film director, screenwriter, and opera director.Szabó is the most internationally famous Hungarian filmmaker since the late 1960s. Working in the tradition of European, auteurist art cinema, he has made films that represent many of the psychological and political...
  
  
• Sweet and Lowdown
  Sweet and Lowdown
  Sweet and Lowdown is a 1999 American comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen which tells the story of a fictional arrogant, obnoxious, alcoholic jazz guitarist named Emmet Ray who regards himself as perhaps the best guitarist in the world, or second best, after his idol, Django Reinhardt...
  
  directed by Woody Allen
  Woody Allen
  Woody Allen is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, jazz musician, author, and playwright. Allen's films draw heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, and the history of cinema...
  
  

Masters

• 8½ Women
  8½ Women
  8½ Women is a 1999 comedy-drama film written and directed by Peter Greenaway, and starring John Standing, Matthew Delamere, and Vivian Wu. The international co-production was entered into the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:After the death of his wife , wealthy businessman Philip Emmenthal 8½...
  
  directed by Peter Greenaway
  Peter Greenaway
  Peter Greenaway, CBE is a British film director. His films are noted for the distinct influence of Renaissance and Baroque painting, and Flemish painting in particular...
  
  
• L'Autre 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...
  
  
• The Emperor and the Assassin
  The Emperor and the Assassin
  The Emperor and the Assassin, also known as The First Emperor, is a 1998 Chinese historical romance film based primarily on Jing Ke's assassination attempt on the King of Qin, as described in Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian. The film was directed by Chen Kaige and stars Gong Li, Zhang...
  
  directed by Chen Kaige
  Chen Kaige
  Chen Kaige is a Chinese film director and a leading figure of the fifth generation of Chinese cinema. His films are known for their visual flair and epic storytelling.-Early life:...
  
  
• Goya in Bordeaux
  Goya en Burdeos
  Goya en Burdeos is a 1999 Spanish historical drama film written and directed by Carlos Saura about the life of Francisco de Goya.-Awards:* 5 Goya Awards, includding Best Actor...
  
  directed by Carlos Saura
  Carlos Saura
  Carlos Saura Atarés is a Spanish film director and photographer.-Early life:Born into a family of artists , he developed his artistic sense in childhood as a photography enthusiast.He obtained his directing diploma in Madrid in 1957 at the Institute of Cinema Research and Studies...
  
  
• Juha
  Juha (film)
  Juha is a 1999 Finnish film written and directed by Aki Kaurismäki. The film is based on a famous 1911 novel by the Finnish author Juhani Aho marking this as the fourth time the novel was adapted for the screen. The original story takes place in the 18th century but Kaurismäki's remake is set in...
  
  directed by Aki Kaurismäki
  Aki Kaurismäki
  -Career:After studying Media Studies at the University of Tampere, Aki Kaurismäki started his career as a co-director in the films of his elder brother Mika Kaurismäki. His debut as an independent director was Crime and Punishment , Dostoyevsky's famous crime story set in modern-day Helsinki...
  
  
• Kikujiro
  Kikujiro
  The album includes "Summer", one of the most famous compositions by Hisaishi; it was also re-arranged and used for Toyota Corolla commercials, for instance...
  
  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...
  
  
• The Legend of 1900
  The Legend of 1900
  The Legend of 1900 is a 1998 film directed by the Italian filmmaker Giuseppe Tornatore, starring Tim Roth. This is Tornatore's first English-language film. The film is inspired by a theater monologue, Novecento, by Alessandro Baricco...
  
  directed by Giuseppe Tornatore
  Giuseppe Tornatore
  -Life and career:Born in Bagheria near Palermo, Tornatore developed an interest in acting and the theatre from at least the age of 16 and put on works by Luigi Pirandello and Eduardo De Filippo.He worked initially as a freelance photographer...
  
  
• La lettre
  The Letter (1999 film)
  The Letter is a 1999 French-Portuguese drama film directed by Manoel de Oliveira. It tells the story of a married woman who has feelings for another man, and who confesses her feelings to her friend, a cloistered nun...
  
  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...
  
  
• Moloch
  Moloch (film)
  Moloch is a 1999 Russian biographical drama film directed by Alexander Sokurov. The storyline was conceived from a screenplay written by Yuri Arabov and Marina Koreneva. It portrays Adolf Hitler as a humanized figure, living life in an unassuming manner during an abrupt journey to the Bavarian Alps...
  
  directed by Alexandr Sokurov
• Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
  Father Damien
  Father Damien or Saint Damien of Molokai, SS.CC. , born Jozef De Veuster, was a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium and member of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, a missionary religious order...
  
  directed by Paul Cox
  Paul Cox
  Paulus Henriqus Benedictus "Paul" Cox is an award-winning Australian film director.Cox was born in Venlo, Limburg, the Netherlands, the son of Else , a native of Germany, and Wim Cox, a documentary film producer. Cox emigrated to Australia in 1965...
  
  
• No One Writes to the Colonel
  No One Writes to the Colonel
  No One Writes to the Colonel is a novella written by the Colombian novelist and Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez. It also gives its name to a short story collection.-Plot summary:...
  
  directed by Arturo Ripstein
  Arturo Ripstein
  Arturo Ripstein y Rosen is a Mexican film director.-Life and career:Ripstein got his break into movies working as an uncredited assistant director for Luis Buñuel. In 1965, he directed his first feature, Tiempo de Morir...
  
  
• The Wet-Nurse directed by Marco Bellocchio
• The Wind Will Carry Us
  The Wind Will Carry Us
  The Wind Will Carry Us is a 1999 Iranian film by Abbas Kiarostami. The title is a reference to a poem written by the famous modern Iranian woman poet Forough Farrokhzad. In 1999, the movie was nominated for Golden Lion of Venice Film Festival. It won Grand Special Jury Prize , FIPRESCI Prize and...
  
  directed by Abbas Kiarostami
  Abbas Kiarostami
  Abbas Kiarostami is an internationally acclaimed Iranian film director, screenwriter, photographer and film producer. An active filmmaker since 1970, Kiarostami has been involved in over forty films, including shorts and documentaries...
  
  

Special Presentations

• All the Rage
  All the Rage (film)
  All the Rage is a 1997 film by New York City-based writer Roland Tec. It was released theatrically in the U.S., was widely reviewed in numerous publications and continues to be a top-grossing film among gay-themed titles on Netflix and Amazon....
  
  directed by James D. Stern
• Annaluise & Anton directed by Caroline Link
  Caroline Link
  Caroline Link , is a German film director and screenwriter.-Life and work:Caroline Link is the daughter of Jürgen and Ilse Link. From 1986 to 1990 she studied at the Munich Academy of Film and Television , and then worked as an assistant director and script writer.Link's early work includes the...
  
  
• The Best Man
  The Best Man (1999 film)
  The Best Man is a 1999 romantic comedy-drama film, written and directed by Malcolm D. Lee. It was produced by Spike Lee's production company, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks. The film stars Taye Diggs, Nia Long, Morris Chestnut and Sanaa Lathan, and is considered to be a male-centered answer to...
  
  directed by Malcolm D. Lee
  Malcolm D. Lee
  Malcolm D. Lee is an American actor, film director, and screenwriter. He has directed such films as Undercover Brother, The Best Man, Roll Bounce, Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins, and Soul Men. He also directed an episode of the sitcom Everybody Hates Chris...
  
  
• The Big Kahuna
  The Big Kahuna (film)
  The Big Kahuna is a 1999 American comedy-drama film adapted from a play entitled Hospitality Suite, written by Roger Rueff, who also wrote the screenplay...
  
  directed by John Swanbeck
• Black and White
  Black and White (1999 film)
  Black and White is a 1999 American film directed by James Toback, starring Robert Downey, Jr., Gaby Hoffmann, Allan Houston, Jared Leto, Scott Caan, Claudia Schiffer, Brooke Shields and a number of rap musicians, namely members of the Wu-Tang Clan and Onyx .The...
  
  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...
  
  
• Breakfast of Champions
  Breakfast of Champions (film)
  Breakfast of Champions is a 1999 American comedy film adapted and directed by Alan Rudolph from the novel of the same name by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.-Plot:...
  
  directed by Alan Rudolph
• Dogma
  Dogma (film)
  Dogma is a 1999 American adventure fantasy comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith, who also stars in the film along with an ensemble cast that includes Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Linda Fiorentino, Alan Rickman, Bud Cort, Salma Hayek, Chris Rock, Jason Lee, George Carlin, Janeane Garofalo,...
  
  directed by Kevin Smith
  Kevin Smith
  Kevin Patrick Smith is an American screenwriter, actor, film producer, and director, as well as a popular comic book writer, author, comedian/raconteur, and internet radio personality best recognized by viewers as Silent Bob...
  
  
• Forever Mine
  Forever Mine
  Forever Mine is a 1999 film written and directed by Paul Schrader. It stars Joseph Fiennes, Gretchen Mol and Ray Liotta.-Plot:Alan Riply , a young cabana boy working at an opulent beach hotel, falls in love with Ellen Brice , the wife of business mogul Mark Brice . Ellen returns his love, but when...
  
  directed by Paul Schrader
  Paul Schrader
  Paul Joseph Schrader is an American screenwriter, film director, and former film critic. Apart from his credentials as a director, Schrader is most notably known for his screenplays for Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver and Raging Bull....
  
  
• Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
  Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
  Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai is a 1999 American crime action film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. Forest Whitaker stars as the title character, the mysterious "Ghost Dog", a hitman in the employ of the Mafia, who follows the ancient code of the samurai as outlined in the book of Yamamoto...
  
  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:...
  
  
• Grass
  Grass (1999 film)
  Grass: History of Marijuana is a 1999 Canadian documentary film directed by Ron Mann, premiered in Toronto Film Festival, about the history of the United States government's war on marijuana in the 20th century.-Overview:...
  
  directed by Ron Mann
  Ron Mann
  Ronald "Ron" Mann is a Canadian documentary film director focusing primarily on aspects of Canadian and American popular culture. He does most of his work through his company Sphinx Productions, while also running a film distribution company on the side called 'FilmsWeLike'. Mann has also put...
  
  
• Gregory's Two Girls
  Gregory's Two Girls
  Gregory's Two Girls is a 1999 British film. It is the sequel to 1981's Gregory's Girl, which also starred John Gordon Sinclair and was written and directed by Bill Forsyth...
  
  directed by Bill Forsyth
  Bill Forsyth
  Bill Forsyth is a Scottish film director and writer, noted for his commitment to national film-making.Forsyth first came to attention with a low-budget film, That Sinking Feeling, made with youth theatre actors and featuring a cameo appearance by the Edinburgh gallery owner Richard Demarco...
  
  
• History is Made at Night
  History Is Made at Night (1999 film)
  History Is Made at Night is a 1999 film directed by Ilkka Järvi-Laturi, and starring Bill Pullman, Irène Jacob, and Bruno Kirby...
  
  directed by Ilkka Jarvilaturi
• The Hurricane
  The Hurricane (1999 film)
  The Hurricane is a 1999 biographical film directed by Norman Jewison, and starring Denzel Washington. The script was adapted by Armyan Bernstein and Dan Gordon from the books Lazarus and the Hurricane by Sam Chaiton and Terry Swinton and The Sixteenth Round by Rubin "Hurricane" Carter.The film...
  
  directed by Norman Jewison
  Norman Jewison
  Norman Frederick Jewison, CC, O.Ont is a Canadian film director, producer, actor and founder of the Canadian Film Centre. Highlights of his directing career include In the Heat of the Night , The Thomas Crown Affair , Fiddler on the Roof , Jesus Christ Superstar , Moonstruck , The Hurricane and The...
  
  
• Joe the King
  Joe the King
  Joe the King is a 1999 drama film, written and directed by Frank Whaley, based largely on his own childhood and the childhood of his brother. It stars Noah Fleiss, Val Kilmer, Karen Young, Ethan Hawke, John Leguizamo, Austin Pendleton, Camryn Manheim, Max Ligosh and James Costa...
  
  directed by Frank Whaley
  Frank Whaley
  Frank Joseph Whaley is an American film and television actor known for his roles in independent films.-Personal life:Whaley was born in Syracuse, New York, the son of Josephine and Robert W. Whaley, Sr. He is half-Irish and half-Sicilian and grew up in Syracuse. He has two sisters and an older...
  
  
• Une liaison pornographique
  Une liaison pornographique
  Une liaison pornographique is a 1999 romantic drama film by Frédéric Fonteyne, and written by Philippe Blasband.-Cast:*Nathalie Baye — Her*Sergi López — Him*Jacques Viala — Interviewer *Paul Pavel — Joseph Lignaux...
  
  directed by Frederic Fonteyne
  Frédéric Fonteyne
  Frédéric Fonteyne is a Belgian film director. He studied film at the Institut des arts de diffusion in Louvain-la-Neuve.- Filmography :* Short Films** 1998 Bon anniversaire Sergent Bob...
  
  
• The Limey
  The Limey
  The Limey is a 1999 American crime film, directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Lem Dobbs. The film features Terence Stamp, Lesley Ann Warren, Luis Guzmán, Peter Fonda and Barry Newman.Filming locations included Big Sur and L.A.-Plot:...
  
  directed by Steven Soderbergh
  Steven Soderbergh
  Steven Andrew Soderbergh is an American film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, and an Academy Award-winning film director. He is best known for directing commercial Hollywood films like Erin Brockovich, Traffic, and the remake of Ocean's Eleven, but he has also directed smaller less...
  
  
• The Luck of Ginger Coffey
  The Luck of Ginger Coffey
  The Luck of Ginger Coffey is a 1964 film directed by Irvin Kershner. It was filmed in Montreal by Crawley Films. It is based on the Governor General's Award winning novel by Northern Irish-Canadian writer Brian Moore.- Plot :...
  
  directed by Irvin Kershner
  Irvin Kershner
  Irvin Kershner was an American film director and occasional actor, best known for directing quirky, independent films early in his career, and then Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. -Background:...
  
  
• Manila directed by Romuald Karmakar
  Romuald Karmakar
  Romuald Karmakar is a German film director and screenwriter. He was born in Wiesbaden as the son of an Indian father and a French mother. From 1977 to 1982 he lived in Athens. He won several awards, including the Bavarian Film Award for Best Screenplay...
  
  
• Mansfield Park
  Mansfield Park (film)
  Mansfield Park is a 1999 British romantic comedy-drama film loosely based on Jane Austen's novel of the same name, written and directed by Patricia Rozema. The film differs sharply from the original novel in many respects. For example, the life of Jane Austen is incorporated into the film and the...
  
  directed by Patricia Rozema
  Patricia Rozema
  Patricia Rozema is a Canadian film director and screenwriter.-Life and career:Rozema was born in Kingston, Ontario and raised in Sarnia, Ontario. Her parents, Jacoba Berandina and Jan Rozema, were Dutch Calvinists. Television was severely restricted and she didn’t go to a movie theatre until she...
  
  
• A Map of the World
  A Map of the World
  A Map of the World is a novel by Jane Hamilton. It was the Oprah's Book Club selection for December 1999. It was made into a movie released in 1999 starring Sigourney Weaver, Julianne Moore, David Strathairn, Chloë Sevigny, Louise Fletcher and Marc Donato with a soundtrack by Pat Metheny.- Plot...
  
  directed by Scott Elliott
• Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
  Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
  Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. is a 1999 documentary film by Errol Morris about execution technician Fred A. Leuchter.-Plot:...
  
  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...
  
  
• Pas de scandale 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...
  
  
• Princess Mononoke
  Princess Mononoke
  is a 1997 epic Japanese animated historical fantasy feature film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli. is not a name, but a general term in the Japanese language for a spirit or monster...
  
  directed by Hayao Miyazaki
  Hayao Miyazaki
  is a Japanese manga artist and prominent film director and animator of many popular anime feature films. Through a career that has spanned nearly fifty years, Miyazaki has attained international acclaim as a maker of animated feature films and, along with Isao Takahata, co-founded Studio Ghibli,...
  
  
• The Third Miracle
  The Third Miracle
  The Third Miracle is a 1999 drama film directed by Agnieszka Holland starring Ed Harris and Anne Heche. The film was shot in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.-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:...
  
  
• To Walk with Lions
  To Walk With Lions
  To Walk with Lions is a 1999 film starring Richard Harris as George Adamson and John Michie as Tony Fitzjohn.Adamson spends the latter part of his life protecting the lions and other wildlife in the Kora National Reserve, Kenya...
  
  directed by Carl Schultz
  Carl Schultz
  Carl Schultz is a Hungarian film director.-Early life:He left his native Budapest during the uprising of 1956 with his brother Otto Schultz. They fled to England; after arriving in London, they moved to Manchester...
  
  
• Tumbleweeds
  Tumbleweeds (1999 film)
  Tumbleweeds is a 1999 American drama film directed by Gavin O'Connor. He co-wrote the screenplay with his then-wife Angela Shelton, who was inspired by her memories of a childhood spent on the road with her serial-marrying mother.-Plot:...
  
  directed by Gavin O'Connor
• Wayward Son
  Wayward Son
  Wayward Son is an American film drama about justice and redemption in rural Georgia during the Great Depression, starring Harry Connick, Jr. and Pete Postlethwaite.-Plot:...
  
  directed by Randall Harris
• Women Talking Dirty
  Women Talking Dirty
  Women Talking Dirty is a 1999 Scottish comedy film starring Helena Bonham Carter and Gina McKee. It is an adaptation of the novel, Women Talking Dirty, written by Isla Dewar who wrote the screenplay as well.- Premise :...
  
  directed by Coky Giedroyc
  Coky Giedroyc
  -Personal life:The elder sister of actress, presenter and writer Mel Giedroyc, she grew up in Leatherhead, Surrey. Her father is Michal Giedroyc, a historian of Polish-Lithuanian descent who came to England in 1947. She attended Bristol University, where she first began making films...
  
  
• Wonderland
  Wonderland (1999 film)
  Wonderland is a 1999 drama film about the lives of a London couple, their three adult daughters and absent son. Directed by Michael Winterbottom, the film stars Jack Shepherd, Kika Markham, Shirley Henderson, Gina McKee, Molly Parker, John Simm, and Stuart Townsend...
  
  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...
  
  

Perspective Canada

• Babette's Feet directed by Harry Killas
• Below the Belt directed by Laurie Colbert and Dominique Cardona
• By This Parting directed by Mieko Ouchi
• La Casa del Nonno directed by Lisa Sfriso
• Decharge directed by Patrick Demers
• Don't Think Twice directed by Sarah Polley
  Sarah Polley
  Sarah Polley is a Canadian actress, singer, film director, and screenwriter. Polley first attained notice in her role as Sara Stanley in the Canadian television series, Road to Avonlea...
  
  
• Dreamtrips directed by Kal Ng
• Ecstasy directed by Mark Wihak
• Emporte-moi
  Emporte-moi
  Emporte-Moi is a 1999 French-Canadian film by director Léa Pool and starring Karine Vanasse. It tells the story of Hanna, a girl struggling with her sexuality and the depression of both her parents as she goes through puberty in Quebec in 1963...
  
  directed by Léa Pool
  Léa Pool
  Léa Pool is a Swiss-Canadian filmmaker who has also taught film at UQAM. She is openly lesbian. Her 1986 film Anne Trister was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival. Her 1999 film Emporte-moi was entered into the 49th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Special...
  
  
• Eva Meets Felix directed by Heidi B. Gerber
• Exhuming Tyler directed by Merlin Dervisevic
• Fit directed by David Christensen
• The Five Senses directed by Jeremy Podeswa
  Jeremy Podeswa
  Jeremy Podeswa is a Canadian/American film and television director. He is best known for directing the films The Five Senses and Fugitive Pieces . He has also worked as Director on the television shows Six Feet Under, Nip/Tuck, The Tudors, Queer as Folk, and the HBO World War II miniseries The...
  
  
• Fly directed by Jigar Talati
• Four Days directed by Curtis Wehrfritz
• Fries with That directed by Christopher McKay
• Frog Pond directed by Bradley Walsh
• Full Blast directed by Rodrigue Jean
  Rodrigue Jean
  Rodrigue Jean is an award-winning Canadian film director of Acadian origin. He studied biology, sociology and literature. He was a dancer and choreographer in the 1980s. He then studied theatre and directing in London and Tokyo....
  
  
• A Girl is a Girl directed by Reginald Harkema
• Le grand serpent du monde directed by Yves Dion
• Here am I directed by Joshua Dorsey and Douglas Naimer
• Hi, I'm Steve directed by Robert Kennedy
• Je te salue directed by Hugo Brochu
• Johnny directed by Carl Bessai
  Carl Bessai
  Carl Bessai is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. Bessai studied at OCAD University and at York University in Toronto graduating with a Master of Fine Arts Degree. He got his start directing documentary films before moving to Vancouver and directing his debut feature film Johnny in 1999...
  
  
• Just Watch Me: Trudeau and the 70's Generation
  Just Watch Me: Trudeau and the 70's Generation
  Just Watch Me: Trudeau and the '70s Generation is a Canadian documentary film by Catherine Annau, produced in 1999 by the National Film Board of Canada....
  
  directed by Catherine Annau
  Catherine Annau
  Catherine Annau One of North America’s most acclaimed documentary filmmakers, Catherine Annau delivers sharp style and compelling storytelling to every single project she works on...
  
  
• Karaoke directed by Stéphane LaFleur
• Kokoro is for Heart directed by Philip Hoffman
• The Life Before This
  The Life Before This
  The Life Before This is a 1999 Canadian film directed by Jerry Ciccoritti. It begins with a massacre perpetrated in a coffee shop by two gunmen, and then uses flashbacks to show how each of the people present found themselves in the shop on that day. It shows how small choices can result in...
  
  directed by Jerry Ciccoritti
  Jerry Ciccoritti
  Jerry Ciccoritti is a Canadian film, television and theatre director. His ability to work in a number of genres and for many mediums has made him one of the most successful directors in the country.- Biography :...
  
  
• Mothers of Me directed by Alexandra Grimanis
• My Father's Angel directed by Davor Marjanovic
• My Father's Hands directed by David Sutherland
  Sudz Sutherland
  David "Sudz" Sutherland is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. His credits include the films Doomstown, Love, Sex and Eating the Bones and Guns, as well as episodes of Da Kink in My Hair, Degrassi: The Next Generation, Wild Roses and Jozi-H...
  
  
• New Waterford Girl
  New Waterford Girl
  New Waterford Girl is a Canadian drama-comedy film, released in 1999. The film was directed by Allan Moyle, and written by Tricia Fish.New Waterford Girl stars Liane Balaban as Agnes-Marie "Moonie" Pottie, a teenager in New Waterford, Nova Scotia who dreams of life beyond her small-town home...
  
  directed by Allan Moyle
  Allan Moyle
  Allan Moyle is a Canadian film director. He is best known for directing the films Pump Up the Volume and New Waterford Girl .-Biography:His first major film was Times Square...
  
  
• The Offering directed by Paul Lee
• Pamplemousse directed by Tink
• Quand je serai parti... vous vivrez encore
  Quand je serai parti... vous vivrez encore
  The Long Winter is a 1999 Quebec historical drama film. Directed by Michel Brault, it is a partly fictionalized account of the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837 and 1838 which sought to make Lower Canada, now Quebec, a republic independent from the British Empire.- Description :It features the...
  
  directed by Michel Brault
  Michel Brault
  Michel Brault, OQ is a Quebec cinematographer, cameraman, film director, screenwriter and film producer. He is a leading figure of Direct Cinema, characteristic of the French branch of the National Film Board of Canada in the 1960s...
  
  
• Quiver directed by Scott Beveridge
• Remembrance Dance directed by Chris Gilpin
• Rollercoaster directed by Scott Smith
• Sea Song directed by Richard Reeves
• Second Date directed by James Genn
  James Genn
  James Douglas Genn is a filmmaker, writer and director, born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1972.He is the son of Canadian artist Robert Genn, the brother of musician Dave Genn, and is the twin brother to artist and musician Sara Genn...
  
  
• So Beautiful directed by Jacob Wren
• Soul Cages directed by Phillip Barker
• Souvenirs intimes directed by Jean Beaudin
  Jean Beaudin
  Jean Beaudin is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He has directed 20 films since 1969. His film J.A. Martin Photographer, was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival, where Monique Mercure won the award for Best Actress. The film also won best Film, he won best Director, and Mercure...
  
  
• Sparklehorse directed by Gariné Torossian
• Subterranean Passage directed by Michael Crochetiere
• Switch directed by Hope Thompson
• Top of the Food Chain
  Top of the Food Chain
  Top of the Food Chain is a 1999 Canadian film directed by John Paizs, starring Campbell Scott, Fiona Loewi, and Tom Everett Scott. It was released on video in the US under the title Invasion! It is a parody of alien invasion movies, where mysterious carnivorous beings invade a small town....
  
  directed by John Paizs
  John Paizs
  John Paizs is a director, writer and actor from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. In 1985 his much-celebrated independent comedy Crime Wave was presented at the Toronto International Film Festival. He was the male lead and also wrote and directed the film...
  
  
• TOPS & bottoms directed by Cristine Richey
• Touched directed by Mort Ransen
• Toy Soldiers directed by Jackie May
• Tuba Girl directed by Michèle Muzzi
• Undertow directed by Sarah Bachinski
• Wedding Knives directed by Johanna Mercer
• When the Day Breaks
  When the Day Breaks
  When the Day Breaks is an Canadian animated short co-directed by Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis.Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in 1999, the 9 min. 40 sec. film garnered numerous awards, including the Genie Award for Best Animated Short and the Short Film Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film...
  
  directed by Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis
• Where Lies the Homo? directed by Jean-François Monette
• Zyklon Portrait directed by Elida Schogt

Contemporary World Cinema

• 1999 Madeleine directed by Laurent Bouhnik
• Adrenaline Drive 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...
  
  
• After the Truth directed by Roland Suso Richter
  Roland Suso Richter
  Roland Suso Richter is a German film director and producer.He also worked as a screenwriter and actor before settling for directing.- Biography :...
  
  
• directed by François Ozon
  François Ozon
  François Ozon is a French film director and screenwriter and whose films are usually characterized by sharp satirical wit and a freewheeling view on human sexuality....
  
  
• Andares in Time of War directed by Alejandra Jimenez Lopez
• The Annihilation of Fish directed by Charles Burnett
  Charles Burnett (director)
  Charles Burnett is an African-American film director, film producer, writer, editor, actor, photographer, and cinematographer...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Away with Words
  Away with words
  Away with Words is a 1999 auteur trilingual film by Christopher Doyle co-scripted by Doyle and Tony Rayns and starring Tadanobu Asano and Mavis Xu...
  
  directed by Christopher Doyle
  Christopher Doyle
  Christopher Doyle is a cinematographer. He has won the AFI Award for cinematography, the Cannes Technical Grand Prize, Golden Osella, the Golden Horse awards , and Hong Kong Film Award . Doyle is an affiliate of the Hong Kong Society of Cinematographers.-Biography:Doyle was born in Sydney,...
  
  
• Beau travail
  Beau travail
  Beau travail is a 1999 French movie directed by Claire Denis that is loosely based on Herman Melville's novella Billy Budd. However, instead of the maritime setting of the novella, the movie takes place in Djibouti where the protagonists are soldiers in the French Foreign Legion...
  
  directed by Claire Denis
  Claire Denis
  Claire Denis is a French film director and Professor of Film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.-Early life:...
  
  
• Beautiful People
  Beautiful People (film)
  Beautiful People is a multi-award winning satirical comedy written and directed by Jasmin Dizdar. The film is set in London during the time of the Bosnian war...
  
  directed by Jasmin Dizdar
  Jasmin Dizdar
  Jasmin Dizdar is a Bosnian-British screenwriter, film director and author on cinema. He is known for his film Beautiful People which won an award for the best film in Un Certain Regard category at the Cannes Film Festival.- Biography :As a child Jasmin Dizdar was an award winning short story writer...
  
  
• The Big Brass Ring
  The Big Brass Ring
  The Big Brass Ring is a 1999 drama film, starring William Hurt, Nigel Hawthorne, Irene Jacob, Jefferson Mays, and Miranda Richardson ....
  
  directed by George Hickenlooper
• directed by Stephane Brize
• Boys Don't Cry
  Boys Don't Cry (film)
  Boys Don't Cry is a 1999 American independent romantic drama film directed by Kimberly Peirce and co-written by Andy Bienen. The film is a dramatization of the real-life story of Brandon Teena, a transgender man played by Hilary Swank, who pursues a relationship with a young woman, played by Chloë...
  
  directed by Kimberly Peirce
  Kimberly Peirce
  Kimberly Peirce is an American feature film director, notable for her debut feature film, Boys Don't Cry . Her second feature, Stop-Loss, was released by Paramount Pictures in 2008.- Early life and career :...
  
  
• Buddy Boy
  Buddy Boy
  Buddy Boy is a 2000 psychological thriller film written and directed by Mark Hanlon. The film premiered to a standing ovation at the Venice International Film Festival on September 5, 1999 in the Cinema del Presente section...
  
  directed by Mark Hanlon
  Mark Hanlon
  Mark Hanlon is an American film director and screenwriter, best known for directing the independent film Buddy Boy and writing the Warner Bros. horror film Ghost Ship.-External links:**...
  
  
• Bullets Over Summer directed by Wilson Yip
  Wilson Yip
  Wilson Yip Wai-Shun is a Hong Kong actor, filmmaker and screenwriter. His films include Bio Zombie, The White Dragon, SPL: Sha Po Lang, Dragon Tiger Gate, Flash Point, Ip Man, and Ip Man 2.-Early career:...
  
  
• Burlesk King
  Burlesk King
  Burlesk King is the second film in the gay-themed trilogy of Mel Chionglo and Ricky Lee about the lives of macho dancers, men who work as strippers in Manila's gay bars. The first is Sibak: Midnight Dancers; the third is Twilight Dancers...
  
  directed by Mel Chionglo
• directed by François Dupeyron
  François Dupeyron
  François Dupeyron is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed 17 films since 1977. His film La chambre des officiers was entered into the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:...
  
  
• Caravan
  Himalaya (film)
  Himalaya , also known as Himalaya - l'enfance d'un chef and as Caravan, is a 1999 Nepalese movie directed by Eric Valli and was funded through France-based corporations. It was the first Nepalese film to be nominated in the Best Foreign Film category at the 72nd Academy Awards.Himalaya is a story...
  
  directed by Eric Valli
  Eric Valli
  Éric Valli is a French photographer and film director.Valli spent most of his career as a geographical photographer working for the National Geographic Magazine and The Sunday Times capturing more inaccessible locations in the world on camera...
  
  
• The Color of Heaven directed by Majid Majidi
  Majid Majidi
  Majid Majidi is an internationally and critically acclaimed Iranian film director, film producer, and screenwriter. Majidi's films have touched on many themes and genres and he has won many international awards.-Biography:...
  
  
• directed by Benoit Mariage
  Benoît Mariage
  Benoît Mariage is a Belgian film director.-External links:...
  
  
• Crane World directed by Pablo Trapero
  Pablo Trapero
  Pablo Trapero is an Argentine film producer, editor and director.His films are known for portraying the lives of ordinary people, and usually involving some form of social criticism to modern society, such as his movie Mundo Grúa , or the highly-acclaimed El...
  
  
• The Cup directed by Khyentse Norbu
• Dancing with Hydra directed by Takuji Suzuki
• Darkness and Light directed by Chang Tso-chi
• directed by Bernard Stora
• Deterrence
  Deterrence (film)
  Deterrence is a 1999 French/American dramatic film written and directed by Rod Lurie, depicting fictional events about nuclear brinksmanship. It marks the feature directorial debut of Lurie, who was previously a film critic for the New York Daily News, Premiere Magazine, Entertainment Weekly and...
  
  directed by Rod Lurie
  Rod Lurie
  Rod Lurie is an Israeli-American director, screenwriter and former film critic.-Early life and career:The son of internationally syndicated cartoonist Ranan Lurie, he was born in Israel but moved to the United States at a young age, growing up in Greenwich, Connecticut, and Honolulu,...
  
  
• La donna lupo directed by Aurelio Grimaldi
  Aurelio Grimaldi
  Aurelio Grimaldi is an Italian film director and screenwriter. His film The Whores was entered into the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.-Selected filmography:* Ragazzi fuori * The Rebel * The Whores...
  
  
• East is East
  East is East (film)
  East Is East is a 1999 British black comedy/drama film, written by Ayub Khan-Din and directed by Damien O'Donnell. It is set in a British household of mixed-ethnicity, with a British Pakistani father and an English mother in Salford, Lancashire, in 1971...
  
  directed by Damien O'Donnell
  Damien O'Donnell
  Damien O'Donnell is an Irish film director and writer.He has directed East is East , Heartlands and Inside I'm Dancing , amongst others....
  
  
• Enthusiasm directed by Ricardo Larrain
  Ricardo Larraín
  Ricardo Larraín is a Chilean film editor and director. His 1991 film The Frontier won the Silver Bear for an outstanding single achievement at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival.-External links:...
  
  
• Feeling Sexy directed by Davida Allen
  Davida Allen
  Davida Frances Allen , is an Australian painter, film maker and writer.-Career:Allen studied under Betty Churcher at the Stuartholme School, Brisbane and later under Roy Churcher at Brisbane Central Technical College...
  
  
• From the Edge of the City
  From the Edge of the City
  From the Edge of the City is a 1998 Greek film directed by Constantinos Giannaris. It was Greece's official Best Foreign Language Film submission at the 72nd Academy Awards, but did not manage to receive a nomination....
  
  directed by Constantinos Giannaris
• Garage Olimpo directed by Marco Bechis
  Marco Bechis
  Marco Bechis is a Chilean-Italian film screenwriter and director. His film Garage Olimpo was screened at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section.-Selected filmography:* Alambrado...
  
  
• Gemini directed by Shinya Tsukamoto
  Shinya Tsukamoto
  is a Japanese film director and actor with a considerable cult following both domestically and abroad.-Biography:Tsukamoto started making movies at the age of 14, when his father gave him a Super 8 camera. He made a number of films, ranging...
  
  
• Guinevere directed by Audrey Wells
  Audrey Wells
  Audrey Wells is an American screenwriter, film director, and producer.Wells was born in San Francisco, California, and worked as a disc jockey at San Francisco jazz radio station KJAZ FM. She graduated from U.C. Berkeley and UCLA. She has written a number of successful screenplays and has directed...
  
  
• Hans Warns - My 20th Century directed by Gordian Maugg
• Happy, Texas
  Happy, Texas (film)
  Happy, Texas is a comedy film released in 1999 directed by Mark Illsley, and starring Steve Zahn, Jeremy Northam and William H. Macy.- Plot :...
  
  directed by Mark Illsley
  Mark Illsley
  Mark Illsley is a film director best known for writing and directing the film Happy, Texas, which starred William H. Macy and Steve Zahn, and directing Bookies....
  
  
• Harem Suare directed by Ferzan Ozpetek
  Ferzan Özpetek
  Ferzan Özpetek is an Italian-Turkish film director and screenwriter, residing in Italy.- Biography :Ferzan Ozpetek was born in Istanbul in 1959. When he was a young student in 1976, he decided to move to Italy to study Cinema History at Sapienza University of Rome...
  
  
• High Expectations directed by Evi Quaid
• L'humanite
  Humanité
  Humanité is a 1999 film directed by Bruno Dumont. It tells the story of a detective who has lost touch with his emotions, and who investigates the murder of a little girl.-Plot:...
  
  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...
  
  
• Jesus' Son
  Jesus' Son
  Jesus' Son is a 1999 film that was adapted from a collection of short stories of the same name by Denis Johnson. It stars Billy Crudup, Samantha Morton, Holly Hunter, Dennis Hopper, Denis Leary, Will Patton, John Ventimiglia, Michael Shannon and Jack Black...
  
  directed by Alison Maclean
  Alison Maclean
  Alison Maclean is a Canadian film director of music videos, short films, television , commercials and feature films...
  
  
• Journey to the Sun directed by Yeşim Ustaoğlu
  Yeşim Ustaoğlu
  - Life and career :Ustaoğlu was born in Çaykara in eastern Turkey and grew up in Trabzon on the Black Sea. After studying architecture at the Yıldız Technical University in Istanbul, she worked as an architect, then as a journalist and a film critic. Before she made her feature film debut The Trace...
  
  
• Judy Berlin directed by Eric Mendelsohn
  Eric Mendelsohn
  Eric Mendelsohn is an American film director and screenwriter. Two of his films have been screened in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes: Through an Open Window in 1992 and Judy Berlin in 1999., which won the Directing Award at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival...
  
  
• julien donkey-boy
  Julien Donkey-Boy
  Julien Donkey-Boy is a 1999 independent drama film written and directed by Harmony Korine. The screenplay concentrates on the schizophrenic Julien, played by Scottish actor Ewen Bremner, and his dysfunctional family. The film also stars Chloe Sevigny as Julien's sister, Pearl, and Werner Herzog as...
  
  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...
  
  
• Kadosh
  Kadosh
  Kadosh is a 1999 film by Israeli director Amos Gitai. It was entered into the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:Kadosh is a bleak drama about the plight of women in Haredi society. In the opening scene, Meir , a young Talmudic scholar, thanks God in his morning prayers for not being born a woman...
  
  directed by Amos Gitaï
  Amos Gitai
  Amos Gitai , born 11 October 1950 in Haifa, Israel, is an Israeli filmmaker and director. He is mainly known for making documentaries and experimental / minimalist feature films...
  
  
• The Last September directed by Deborah Warner
  Deborah Warner
  Deborah Warner CBE is a British director of theatre and opera known for her interpretations of the works of Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht, Georg Büchner, and Henrik Ibsen, and for her long-term working relationship with the Irish actress Fiona Shaw.-Early years:Warner was born in Oxfordshire,...
  
  
• Lies directed by Jang Sun Woo
• Luna Papa
  Luna Papa
  Luna Papa is a 1999 movie by Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov with collaboration from Germany, Japan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Austria, Switzerland, France, and Russia....
  
  directed by Bakhityar Khudojnazarov
• M/Other directed by Nobuhiro Suwa
  Nobuhiro Suwa
  is a Japanese film director working in Japan and France. His directorial works and screenplays often make use of improvisation techniques. Currently, Suwa is the President of Tokyo Zokei University.-Biography:...
  
  
• Malli
  Malli (film)
  Malli is a Tamil feature film directed by Santosh Sivan. The film met with widespread critical acclaim upon release, and has been shown at many film festivals including the Toronto International Film Festival and the New York International Children's Film Festival.-Synopsis:The film revolves...
  
  directed by Santosh Sivan
  Santosh Sivan
  Santosh Sivan is an Indian cinematographer, film director, and producer who has worked in Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, and Hindi cinema....
  
  
• March of Happiness
  March of Happiness
  March of Happiness is a 1999 Taiwanese film directed by Lin Cheng-sheng. It tells the story of a teenage romance set against the backdrop of the Japanese occupation and the 228 Incident...
  
  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...
  
  
• Mifune - Dogme 3
  Mifune's Last Song
  Mifune's Last Song , 1999, is the third film to be made according to the "Dogme 95" group rules. It was directed by Søren Kragh-Jacobsen. The film was a great success in Denmark and an international blockbuster, ranked among the ten best-selling Danish films worldwide.It was produced by Nimbus...
  
  directed by Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
  Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
  Søren Kragh-Jacobsen is a Danish film director, musician, and song writer. He was one of the founders and practitioners of the Dogme95 project, for creating films without artificial technology or techniques.-Early career:...
  
  
• Miss Julie 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...
  
  
• Nightfall directed by Fred Kelemen
  Fred Kelemen
  Fred Kelemen is a European film director, cinematographer and writer. The late Susan Sontag helped to promote Kelemen's work in the mid-1990s, comparing it to the likes of Alexander Sokurov, Béla Tarr and Sharunas Bartas...
  
  
• One Piece! 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...
  
   and Takuji Suzuki
• Peau neuve directed by Emilie Deleuze
  Émilie Deleuze
  Émilie Deleuze is a French film director and screenwriter. She has directed eight films since 1986. Her film Peau neuve was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival...
  
  
• The Personals directed by Chen Kuo-fu
• Le petit voleur directed by Eric Zonka
• Ratcatcher
  Ratcatcher (film)
  Ratcatcher is a 1999 film written and directed by Lynne Ramsay. It is her debut feature film and was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival....
  
  directed by Lynne Ramsay
• Revenge directed by Andrés Wood
• Rien a faire directed by Marion Vernoux
• Romance
  Romance (1999 film)
  Romance is a 1999 French movie written and directed by Catherine Breillat. It stars Caroline Ducey, pornographic actor Rocco Siffredi, Sagamore Stévenin and François Berléand. The film features explicit copulation scenes, especially one showing Caroline Ducey's coitus with Rocco Siffredi...
  
  directed by Catherine Breillat
  Catherine Breillat
  Catherine Breillat is a French filmmaker, novelist and Professor of Auteur Cinema at the European Graduate School.-Life and career:Breillat was born in Bressuire, Deux-Sèvres, but grew up in Niort...
  
  
• A Room for Romeo Brass
  A Room for Romeo Brass
  A Room for Romeo Brass is a 1999 comedy drama film directed and written by Shane Meadows. It was co-written by frequent Meadows collaborator Paul Fraser....
  
  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...
  
  
• Rosetta
  Rosetta (film)
  Rosetta is a 1999 French-Belgian film written and directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne. It is about a seventeen year old girl who lives in a trailer park with her alcoholic mother...
  
  directed by Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
• Show Me Love directed by Lukas Moodysson
  Lukas Moodysson
  - External links :*...
  
  
• Shower
  Shower (film)
  Shower is a 1999 Chinese comedy-drama film directed by Zhang Yang and starring Zhu Xu, Pu Cunxin and Jiang Wu. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 14 September 1999 and won the FIPRESCI Prize...
  
  directed by Zhang Yang
• Simon, The Magician directed by Ildiko Enyedi
  Ildikó Enyedi
  Ildikó Enyedi is an Hungarian film director and screenwriter. She has directed seven films since 1989. She won the Golden Camera award for Az én XX. századom at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. In 1992, she was a member of the jury at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival.-Filmography:* Vakond...
  
  
• So Close to Paradise
  So Close to Paradise
  So Close to Paradise is a 1998 Chinese film directed by Wang Xiaoshuai, a member of Chinese cinema's so-called Sixth Generation. It is alternatively known by the English title Ruan's Song or by its original Chinese title, The Girl From Vietnam...
  
  directed by Wang Xiaoshuai
  Wang Xiaoshuai
  Wang Xiaoshuai is a Chinese film director, screenwriter and occasional actor. He is commonly grouped under the loose association of filmmakers known as the Sixth Generation of the Cinema of China....
  
  
• Soft Hearts directed by Joel Lamangan
  Joel Lamangan
  Joel Lamangan is a Filipino film director, television director and actor. He rose to fame in the early 1990s as an auteur dramatic filmmaker. His award-winning films includes Sidhi, Deathrow, Hubog, Aishte Imasu 1941, Blue Moon and Mano Po.On August 19, 2008, Lamangan directed his first indie movie...
  
   and Eric Quizon
  Eric Quizon
  Enrico Smith Quizon, also known as Eric Quizon is a Filipino actor, director, producer and writer. He is the son of the famous "King of Comedy" Dolphy and a co-owner of Café Famous in Greenbelt, Makati.-Early life:...
  
  
• Speedy Boys directed by James Herbert
  James Herbert
  James Herbert, OBE is a best-selling English horror writer who originally worked as the art director of an advertising agency. He is a full-time writer who also designs his own book covers and publicity.-Family:...
  
  
• Splendor directed by Gregg Araki
  Gregg Araki
  Gregg Araki is an American independent filmmaker. He is involved in New Queer Cinema.-Early life:Araki was born in Los Angeles but grew up in Santa Barbara, California...
  
  
• Split Wide Open
  Split Wide Open
  Split Wide Open is a 1999 Indian film and is Dev Benegal's second feature film after English, August. The film primarily deals with the Water conflicts in the slums of Bombay, and paedophilia, and also looks at the subversive sexuality in modern India and how the notions of morality are challenged...
  
  directed by Dev Benegal
  Dev Benegal
  Dev Benegal is an Indian director and screenwriter, most known for his debut film English, August , which won the 1995 National Film Award for Best Feature Film in English....
  
  
• Sunburn directed by Nelson Hume
• Tempting Heart
  Tempting Heart
  Tempting Heart is a 1999 movie, directed and co-written by Sylvia Chang, starring Takeshi Kaneshiro and Gigi Leung as a pair of onscreen lovers.The film has a notable theme song "Xin Dong", performed by Shino Lin Xiao Pei...
  
  directed by Sylvia Chang
  Sylvia Chang
  Sylvia Chang is a Taiwanese actress, writer, singer, producer and director. In 1992, she was a member of the jury at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival.- Actress :...
  
  
• Throne of Death directed by Murali Nair
• Time Out
  Time Out (1998 film)
  Time Out is a 1998 Colombian film directed by Sergio Cabrera. It was an international co-production between Italy, Spain and Colombia. It was Colombia's official Best Foreign Language Film submission at the 72nd Academy Awards, but did not manage to receive a nomination. It starred Dave Baez....
  
  directed by Sergio Cabrera
  Sergio Cabrera
  Sergio Moises Cabrera Diaz is a male swimmer from Paraguay. He was the nation's only swimming competitor at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, where he ended up in 35th place in the men's 200 metres butterfly event....
  
  
• A Time to Love directed by Giacomo Campiotti
• Two Streams directed by Carlos Reichenbach
  Carlos Reichenbach
  Carlos Oscar Reichenbach Son is a Brazilian filmmaker.With one year of age came live in São Paulo. He has studied in the School of Cinema São Luiz, where he was a student of Luis Sérgio Person...
  
  
• Urban Feel
  Urban Feel
  Urban Feel is an Israeli film released in 1998. It tells the story of Eva and Robbie , a young Tel Aviv couple in a troubled marriage, which is rocked by the return of Emmanuel - played by Jonathan Sagall - Eva's charming and mischievous ex-boyfriend.It won Best Feature Film at the 1998 Haifa...
  
  directed by Jonathan Sagall
  Jonathan Sagall
  Jonathan Sagall is an Israeli actor, film director, TV director and screenwriter.-Biography:Sagall was born in Toronto, Canada. Several members of his family were survivors of the Holocaust, who then emigrated to Israel after World War II, then to Canada. Sagall immigrated to Israel from Canada...
  
  
• The Virgin directed by Diego Donnhofer
• The War Zone
  The War Zone
  The War Zone is a 1999 drama film written by Alexander Stuart, based on his novel, and directed by Tim Roth. The film takes a blunt look at incest and sexual violence in an English family.Upon its release, the movie won nine awards and 10 nominations....
  
  directed by Tim Roth
  Tim Roth
  Simon Timothy "Tim" Roth is an English film actor and director best known for his roles in the American films,Legend of 1900, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Four Rooms, Skellig, Planet of the Apes, The Incredible Hulk and Rob Roy, receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for...
  
  
• Yesterday Children directed by Carlos Siguion-Reyna

Discovery

• 30 Days directed by Aaron Harnick
• Bloody Angels directed by Karin Julsrud
• But Forever in My Mind directed by Gabriele Muccino
  Gabriele Muccino
  Gabriele Muccino is an Italian film director. He is the elder brother of actor Silvio Muccino, who often appears in his brother's films....
  
  
• But I'm a Cheerleader
  But I'm a Cheerleader
  But I'm a Cheerleader is a 1999 satirical romantic comedy film directed by Jamie Babbit and written by Brian Wayne Peterson. Natasha Lyonne stars as Megan Bloomfield, an apparently happy heterosexual high school cheerleader...
  
  directed by Jamie Babbit
  Jamie Babbit
  Jamie Babbit is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. She directed the films But I'm a Cheerleader, The Quiet and Itty Bitty Titty Committee. She has also directed episodes of television programs including Gilmore Girls, Malcolm in the Middle, United States of Tara, Nip/Tuck and...
  
  
• Civilisees directed by Randa Chahal
  Randa Chahal
  Randa Chahal Sabbag also written Sabbagh, , was a Lebanese film director, producer and screen-writer born to an Iraqi mother and Lebanese father....
  
  
• The Criminal of Barrio Concepcion directed by Lav Diaz
  Lav Diaz
  Lav Diaz or Lavrente Indico Diaz is a Filipino independent filmmaker, born in Datu Paglas, Maguindanao, Mindanao, Philippines, on December 30, 1958....
  
  
• Envy directed by Julie Money
• Freak Weather directed by Mary Kuryla
• Girls' Night Out directed by Im Sang-Soo
  Im Sang-soo
  Im Sang-soo is an award-winning South Korean film director and screenwriter.-Early life and film career:Im was born in Seoul. He studied sociology at Seoul's Yonsei University before making a move to The Korean Academy of Film Arts in 1989...
  
  
• A Glass of Rage directed by Aluízio Abranches
  Aluizio Abranches
  Aluizio Abranches is a Brazilian filmmaker. He has worked extensively as an assistant director and producer in Brazil. His first feature film as director was in the 1999 film Um Copo de Cólera, which was based on a soap opera by Raduan Nassar...
  
  
• Goat on Fire and Smiling Fish directed by Kevin Jordan
• Guts directed by Ron Termaat
• Hidden River directed by Mercedes García Guevara
• Human Traffic directed by Justin Kerrigan
• I Could Read the Sky directed by Nichola Bruce
• Idle Running directed by Janez Burger
  Janez Burger
  Janez Burger, a Slovene director, screenwriter and producer.-Life and career:Born on 21 March 1965 in Kranj, Slovenia. He grew up in Železniki, now lives and works in Ljubljana . In 1986 started his studies on Faculty of Economics in Ljubljana, but in 1990 quit this studies and moved to study at...
  
  
• Janice Beard: 45 WPM directed by Clare Kilner
  Clare Kilner
  Clare Kilner is a British film director. She is best known for directing the films How to Deal and The Wedding Date .-Credits:* Saplings * Half Day * The Secret...
  
  
• The Joys of Smoking directed by Nick Katsapetses
• The Junction directed by Urszula Urbaniak
  Urszula Urbaniak
  Urszula Urbaniak is Polish filmmaker and TV directorUrszula Urbaniak graduated in Directing from the famous Polish Film school, PWSFTviT in Łódź in 1991. She then went on to gain an MA in Directing at the NSFTV in the UK. She has directed shorts, documentaries and several dramas for Polish...
  
  
• Just One Time directed by Lane Janger
  Lane Janger
  Lane Janger is an independent film producer, director, writer and actor. He was born in Los Angeles and obtained a Master of Fine Arts in filmmaking at the New York University....
  
  
• Kill by Inches
  Kill by Inches (film)
  Kill by Inches is a 1999 independent film written and directed by Diane Doniol-Valcroze and Arthur Flam. The film premiered September 12, 1999 at the Toronto International Film Festival in the Discovery section...
  
  directed by Diane Doniol-Valcroze and Arthur Flam
• Moonlight Whispers directed by Akihiko Shiota
  Akihiko Shiota
  is a Japanese film director and screenwriter.-Career:Born in Kyoto Prefecture, Shiota attended Rikkyō University, where he began making 8mm films in the tradition of other Rikkyō students like Kiyoshi Kurosawa...
  
  
• Mr. I and Mrs. O directed by Valentina Leduc
• Northern Skirts directed by Barbara Albert
  Barbara Albert
  Barbara Albert is an Austrian writer, film-producer and film-director.She studied filmmaking at the Wiener Filmakademie. Her first film to become known to a larger audience was Nordrand, which describes the reality of life of Yugoslavian children in Vienna.She heads the production company Coop 99...
  
  
• Pictures and Butterfly directed by Yanko Del Pino
• Return of the Idiot
  Return of the Idiot
  Return of the Idiot is a 1999 Czech film directed by Saša Gedeon and starring Anna Geislerová. It was the Czech Republic's submission to the 72nd Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee....
  
  directed by Saša Gedeon
  Saša Gedeon
  Saša Gedeon is a Czech director. He graduated from the Film and TV School of The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in 1995. His 1999 film Návrat idiota won him awards such as the São Paulo International Film Festival International Jury Award.-References:...
  
  
• Rodents directed by Sebastián Cordero
  Sebastián Cordero
  Sebastián Cordero is a film director, writer and editor, often recognized for his work in Ratas, Ratones, Rateros, his debut film which portrays the life in a poverty-stricken Ecuador...
  
  
• Shadows in the Dark directed by Pankaj Butalia
• Spring Forward directed by Tom Gilroy
  Tom Gilroy
  Tom Gilroy is a writer/director/producer/actor from New York City.He has appeared in over 30 films, having worked with such directors as Ken Loach, Sidney Lumet, Jean-Luc Godard, Jim McKay, Christopher Munch, Cam Archer, Paul Auster and multi-media artist Robert Longo.He has written, directed and...
  
  
• This Year's Love directed by David Kane
• Under California - The Limit of Time directed by Carlos Bolado
  Carlos Bolado
  Carlos Bolado is a Mexican filmmaker.He studied cinematography and sociology both in the same university, the UNAM. He has worked as a soundman and editor on several films. After making several short films, he ventured into the genre of film features with the film Baja California: The Limit of Time...
  
  
• The Wall directed by Sergio Arau
• Wheels directed by Djordje Milosavljevic
• Yana's Friends
  Yana's Friends
  Yana's Friends , directed by Arik Kaplun, is an Israeli movie awarded the Crystal Globe at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 1999....
  
  directed by Arik Kaplun

Planet Africa

• After the Rain directed by Ross Kettle
• Chef! directed by Jean-Marie Teno
• Compensation directed by Zeinabu irene Davis
• Cry Me a Baby directed by Tamsin MacCarthy
• La genèse directed by Cheick Oumar Sissoko
  Cheick Oumar Sissoko
  Cheick Oumar Sissoko is a Malian film director and politician.-Biography:As a student in Paris, Cheick Oumar Sissoko obtained a DEA in African History and Sociology and a diploma in History and Cinema from the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales...
  
  
• Harlem Aria directed by William Jennings
• Hot-Irons directed by Andrew Dosunmu
• Living with Pride: Ruth Ellis @ 100 directed by Yvonne Welbon
  Yvonne welbon
  Yvonne Welbon is an American independent film director, producer and screenwriter based in Chicago.-Biography:Welbon has directed eight films and produced a dozen others. Her work has been screened on PBS, Starz/Encore, TV-ONE, IFC, Bravo, BET, the Sundance Channel and in over one hundred film...
  
  
• Love and Action In Chicago directed by Dwayne Johnson-Cochran
• Olivia's Story directed by Charles Burnett
  Charles Burnett (director)
  Charles Burnett is an African-American film director, film producer, writer, editor, actor, photographer, and cinematographer...
  
  
• La petite vendeuse de soleil directed by Djibril Diop Mambety
  Djibril Diop Mambéty
  Djibril Diop Mambéty was a Senegalese film director, actor, orator, composer and poet. Though he made only a small number of films, they received international acclaim for their original and experimental cinematic technique and non-linear, unconventional narrative style. Born to a Muslim family...
  
  
• Portrait of a Young Man Drowning directed by Teboho Mahlatsi
• Rage directed by Newton I. Aduaka
• Rituals directed by Carol Mayes
• Third World Cop
  Third World Cop
  Third World Cop is a 1999 Jamaican action-crime film starring Paul Campbell, directed by Chris Browne and produced by Chris Blackwell of Island Jamaica Films.- Plot synopsis :...
  
  directed by Chris Browne

Real to Reel

• American Movie
  American Movie
  American Movie: The Making of Northwestern is a 1999 documentary directed by Chris Smith. The film chronicles the real 1996-1997 making of Coven, an independent horror film directed by an independent filmmaker named Mark Borchardt...
  
  directed by Chris Smith
  Chris Smith (filmmaker)
  Chris Smith is an American film director, cameraman, producer, writer, and editor. He is best known for directing American Movie, which was awarded the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival....
  
  
• Barenaked in America
  Barenaked in America
  Barenaked in America is a 1999 documentary film about the Canadian band Barenaked Ladies filmed during the 1998-1999 Stunt tour. Directed by actor Jason Priestley, the film was first shown at the Toronto International Film Festival...
  
  directed by Jason Priestley
  Jason Priestley
  Jason Bradford Priestley is a Canadian-American actor and director. He is best known as the virtuous Brandon Walsh on the television series Beverly Hills, 90210, a role which catapulted him to recognition in the early 1990s....
  
  
• Berlin-Cinema (Titre Provisoire) directed by Samira Gloor-Fadel
• Bread Day directed by Sergei Dvortsevoy
• Coven directed by Mark Borchardt
  Mark Borchardt
  Mark Borchardt is an American independent filmmaker. He is best known as the subject of the 1999 film American Movie: The Making of Northwestern, which documented two years he spent writing, shooting and editing his horror short, Coven .-Early life:Borchardt was born and raised in Menomonee Falls,...
  
  
• Crazy English
  Crazy English (film)
  Crazy English is a 1999 Chinese documentary directed by Zhang Yuan. The film premiered along with Zhang's Seventeen Years at the 1999 Locarno International Film Festival...
  
  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...
  
  
• Highway directed by Sergei Dvortsevoy
• Homo Sapiens 1900 directed by Peter Cohen
• The Humiliated directed by Jesper Jargil
• If You Only Understood directed by Rolando Diaz
• Jam Session directed by Makoto Shinozaki
  Makoto Shinozaki
  is a Japanese film director.-Career:Born in Tokyo, Shinozaki attended Rikkyō University where he studied under Shigehiko Hasumi, made 8mm films, and appeared in the then amateur works of other Rikkyō graduates such as Kiyoshi Kurosawa...
  
  
• The Jaundiced Eye directed by Nonny de la Pena
• Juan, I Forgot I Don't Remember directed by Juan Carlos Rulfo
  Juan Carlos Rulfo
  Juan Carlos Rulfo is a Mexican screenwriter and director son of cult author Juan Rulfo. He has written, produced, and photographed several films. He is married to Valentina Leduc Navarro a Mexican director....
  
  
• The Making of a New Empire directed by Jos de Putter
• Me & Isaac Newton 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...
  
  
• My Best Fiend
  My Best Fiend
  My Best Fiend is a 1999 documentary film by Werner Herzog about his tumultuous yet productive relationship with German actor Klaus Kinski. It was released on DVD in 2000 by Anchor Bay.-Summary:...
  
  directed by Werner Herzog
  Werner Herzog
  Werner Herzog Stipetić , known as Werner Herzog, is a German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and opera director.He is often considered as one of the greatest figures of the New German Cinema, along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff, Werner...
  
  
• negative space directed by Chris Petit
• Pripyat directed by Nikolaus Geyrhalter
• Shadow Boxers directed by Katya Bankowsky
• The Specialist directed by Eyal Sivan
  Eyal Sivan
  Eyal Sivan is an Israeli filmmaker and critic noted for his criticisms of Israeli policies.-Biography:Born in Haifa, Sivan attended school in Jerusalem, but dropped out to pursue photography...
  
  
• Sud directed by Chantal Akerman
  Chantal Akerman
  Chantal Anne Akerman is a Belgian film director, artist, and professor of film at the European Graduate School. Akerman's best-known film, Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles , exemplifies a dedication to the ellipses of conventional narrative cinema.-Early life:Akerman was born to...
  
  
• Three directed by Issac Julien
• Work and Progress directed by Vivian Ostrovsky
  Vivian Ostrovsky
  Vivian Ostrovsky is an experimental filmmaker and curator.-Biography:Ostrovsky was born in New York, USA, and spent most of her childhood years in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She completed a B.A. degree in Psychology in Paris, at the Institut de Psychologie and later enrolled in Film Studies at the...
  
   and Yann Beauvais

Indiscreet Charms: New Spanish Cinema

• Alone directed by Benito Zambrano
  Benito Zambrano
  Benito Zambrano , is an awarded Spanish screenwriter and film director. His film Habana Blues was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival...
  
  
• Beloved/Friend directed by Ventura Pons
  Ventura Pons
  Ventura Pons Sala is a Catalan movie director.After a decade as a theatre director, Ventura Pons directed his first film in 1977, Ocaña, an Intermittent Portrait, which was officially selected by the 1978 Cannes Film Festival...
  
  
• Between Your Legs directed by Manuel Gomez Pereira
  Manuel Gómez Pereira
  Manuel Gómez Pereira is a successful Spanish screenwriter and film director of comedies.He is the nephew of the film director Luis Sanz.-Filmography as Director :* 1992: Salsa rosa...
  
  
• Do You Really Wanna Know? directed by Jurdao Faemino, Blanco Faemino, Javier Jurdao and Pedro Blanco
  Pedro Blanco
  Pedro Blanco was a notorious Spanish slave trader based in Gallinas on the coast of Sierra Leone in the second quarter of the 19th century. Before entering in the slave trade, Blanco ran a sugar mill in Cuba....
  
  
• Dying of Laughter directed by Alex de la Iglesia
  Álex de la Iglesia
  Alejandro "Álex" de la Iglesia Mendoza is a Spanish film director, screenwriter, film producer and former comic book artist.Most of De La Iglesia's films reached cult status due to their weird sense of humour.- Biography :...
  
  
• Fading Memories directed by Enrique Gabriel
• Flesh directed by Begona Vicario
• Flowers from Another World directed by Icíar Bollaín
  Icíar Bollaín
  Icíar Bollaín Pérez-Mínguez is a Spanish actress, director and writer.Her father was an aeronautical engineer and her mother was a music teacher. She made her début when she was 15 years old. She is a member of the Academia Española de Cinematografía.She began her work in cinema at the age of...
  
  
• Frivolinas directed by Arturo Carballo
• Golden Whore directed by Miquel Crespi Traveria
• Havana Quartet directed by Fernando Colomo
  Fernando Colomo
  Fernando Colomo , is a Spanish film producer, screenwriter and film director. He has acted in small roles in his films and others.- Filmography :*1973 Mañana llega el presidente *1974 En un país imaginario...
  
  
• Jealousy directed by Vicente Aranda
  Vicente Aranda
  Vicente Aranda , is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer.Due to his refined and personal style, he is one of the most renowned Spanish filmmakers. He started as a founded member of the Barcelona School of Film and became known for bringing contemporary Spanish novels to life on the...
  
  
• Lisbon directed by Antonio Hernández
  Antonio Hernández
  Antonio Hernández is a Spanish film director and screenwriter.In 1994, he created the TV company Zeppelín Televisión.-Director:*1980: F.E.N.*1981: Apaga.....
  
  
• The Mole and the Fairy directed by Eduardo Gimenez Rojo
• Rapture directed by Iván Zulueta
  Ivan Zulueta
  Juan Ricardo Miguel Zulueta Vergarajauregui known as Ivan Zulueta was a designer and film director...
  
  
• Roulette directed by Roberto Santiago
• Washington Wolves directed by Mariano Barroso

Dialogues: Talking with Pictures

• The Awful Truth
  The Awful Truth
  The Awful Truth is a 1937 screwball comedy film starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant. The plot concerns the machinations of a soon-to-be-divorced couple, played by Dunne and Grant, who go to great lengths to try to ruin each other's romantic escapades...
  
  directed by Leo McCarey
  Leo McCarey
  Thomas Leo McCarey was an American film director, screenwriter and producer. During his lifetime he was involved in nearly 200 movies, especially comedies...
  
  
• Elephant
  Elephant (Alan Clarke film)
  "Elephant" is a 1989 British drama film directed by Alan Clarke. The film is set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. The film's title comes from Bernard MacLaverty's description of the Troubles as "the elephant in our living room" — a reference to the collective denial of the underlying social...
  
  directed by Alan Clarke
  Alan Clarke
  Alan Clarke was a television and film director, producer and writer, born in Wallasey, Merseyside, England.Most of Clarke's output was for television rather than cinema, including work for the famous play strands The Wednesday Play and Play for Today...
  
  
• Hiroshima 28 directed by Patrick Lung Kong
• Persona
  Persona (film)
  Persona is a film by Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, released in 1966, and starring Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann. Bergman held this film to be one of his most important; in his book Images, he writes: "Today I feel that in Persona—and later in Cries and Whispers—I had gone as far as I could go...
  
  directed by Ingmar Bergman
  Ingmar Bergman
  Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Swedish director, writer and producer for film, stage and television. Described by Woody Allen as "probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the invention of the motion picture camera", he is recognized as one of the most accomplished and...
  
  
• Shadows directed by John Cassavetes
  John Cassavetes
  John Nicholas Cassavetes was an American actor, screenwriter and filmmaker. He acted in many Hollywood films, notably Rosemary's Baby and The Dirty Dozen...
  
  
• The Tales of Hoffmann
  The Tales of Hoffmann (film)
  The Tales of Hoffmann is a 1951 British film adaptation of Jacques Offenbach's opera Les contes d'Hoffmann, written, produced and directed by the team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger working under the umbrella of their production company, The Archers...
  
  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...
  
  
• Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
  Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
  Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? is a 1970 German drama film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Michael Fengler. It was entered into the 20th Berlin International Film Festival.-Cast:* Lilith Ungerer - Frau R.* Kurt Raab - Herr R....
  
  directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  Rainer Werner Maria Fassbinder was a German movie director, screenwriter and actor. He is considered one of the most important representatives of the New German Cinema.He maintained a frenetic pace in film-making...
  
   and Michael Fengler
  Michael Fengler
  Michael Fengler is a German film producer, director and screenwriter. In 1970, along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, he co-directed the film Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?. It was entered into the 20th Berlin International Film Festival....
  
  
• Yojimbo directed by Akira Kurosawa
  Akira Kurosawa
  was a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. Regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, Kurosawa directed 30 filmsIn 1946, Kurosawa co-directed, with Hideo Sekigawa and Kajiro Yamamoto, the feature Those Who Make Tomorrow ;...
  
  

Spotlight: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

• Barren Illusion directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
  Kiyoshi Kurosawa
  is a Japanese filmmaker. He is best known for his many contributions to the Japanese horror genre.-Biography:Born in Kobe on July 19, 1955, Kiyoshi Kurosawa is not related to director Akira Kurosawa...
  
  
• Charisma
  Charisma (film)
  is a 1999 film directed by Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa. The film is about a dispute between a number of people about a unique but possibly toxic tree growing in an un-named forest....
  
  directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• Cure
  Cure (film)
  is a 1997 thriller film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, starring Koji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Ujiki and Anna Nakagawa.- Synopsis :...
  
  directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• The Excitement of the Do-Re-Mi-Fa Girl directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• Eyes of the Spider directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• License to Live directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• Serpent's Path directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Tribute: The David O. Story

• A Better Tomorrow
  A Better Tomorrow
  A Better Tomorrow is a 1986 Hong Kong action film which had a profound influence on the Hong Kong film-making industry, and later on an international scale.Directed by John Woo, it stars Chow Yun-fat, Ti Lung and Leslie Cheung...
  
  directed by John Woo
  John Woo
  John Woo Yu-Sen SBS is a Hong Kong-based film director and producer. Recognized for his stylised films of highly choreographed action sequences, Mexican standoffs, and use of slow-motion, Woo has directed several notable Hong Kong action films, among them, A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, Hard...
  
  
• Beyond Gravity directed by Garth Maxwell
• Carne directed by Gaspar Noé
  Gaspar Noé
  Gaspar Noé is an Argentine filmmaker and the son of Argentine painter and intellectual Luis Felipe Noé. He graduated from Louis Lumière College and is the visiting professor of film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland...
  
  
• Distant Voices, Still Lives
  Distant Voices, Still Lives
  Distant Voices, Still Lives is a 1988 British film directed and written by Terence Davies. It evokes working-class family life in Liverpool during the 1940s and early 1950s, paying particular attention to the role of popular music, Hollywood cinema, light entertainment, and the public house within...
  
  directed by Terence Davies
• Dust in the Wind
  Dust in the Wind (film)
  Dust in the Wind ) is a 1986 critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful movie by Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien.This film is based on co-screenwriter Wu Nien-jen's own experiences, and the final part of Hou's coming-of-age trilogy, the others being A Summer at Grandpa's and The Time...
  
  directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien
  Hou Hsiao-Hsien
  Hou Hsiao-Hsien is an award-winning film director and a leading figure of Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement.-Biography:...
  
  
• Insiang
  Insiang
  Insiang is a 1976 Filipino drama film from the late director Lino Brocka, adapted from the teleplay of the same name by Mario O'Hara , which tells of a young poverty-ridden woman who seeks revenge for those who have ruined her life. The film stars Hilda Koronel, Mona Lisa, Ruel Vernal and Rez Crotez...
  
  directed by Lino Brocka
  Lino Brocka
  Catalino Ortiz Brocka is known as one of the greatest film directors of the Philippines. Brocka was openly homosexual and many of his films incorporated LGBT themes into their often dramatic storylines....
  
  
• Killer of Sheep
  Killer of Sheep
  Killer of Sheep is a 1977 American film written, directed, produced and shot by Charles Burnett. It features Henry G. Sanders, Kaycee Moore, and Charles Bracy, among others. The drama depicts the culture of urban African-Americans in Los Angeles' Watts district...
  
  directed by Charles Burnett
  Charles Burnett (director)
  Charles Burnett is an African-American film director, film producer, writer, editor, actor, photographer, and cinematographer...
  
  
• Tragedy of an Indian Farmer directed by Murali Nair

Midnight Madness

• Born to Lose: The Last Rock and Roll Movie directed by Lech Kowalski
  Lech Kowalski
  Lech Kowalski is an American film director of Polish origins. His most notable film is thedocumentary, D.O.A. subtitled "A Rite of Passage", which chronicled the burgeoning UK punk scene at the tail-end of the 70's, and included footage of the Sex Pistols' abortive 1978 American Tour...
  
  
• Fever directed by Alex Winter
  Alex Winter
  Alexander Ross "Alex" Winter is an English-born American actor, film director, and film writer, best known for his role as Bill S. Preston Esq. in the 1989 film Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and its 1991 sequel Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey...
  
  
• Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby
  Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby
  Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby is a 1999 exploitation film, written and directed by Matthew Bright. It stars Natasha Lyonne as Crystal "White Girl" Van Meter, and María Celedonio as Angela "Cyclona" Garcia...
  
  directed by Matthew Bright
  Matthew Bright
  Matthew Bright is an American film director, writer and actor.His first noted credits were as writer and actor in the 1982 film Forbidden Zone, portraying the twins Squeezit and René Henderson...
  
  
• Gamera 3: Awakening of Irys
  Gamera 3: Awakening of Irys
  is a 1999 Kaiju film. It is the third and last film in the Gamera Heisei series, and the last to be distributed by Toho. It was released in the United States on DVD in 2003 under the title Gamera: Revenge of Iris.-Plot:...
  
  directed by Shusuke Kaneko
  Shusuke Kaneko
  is a Japanese filmmaker and screenwriter.-Career:Shūsuke Kaneko began his career in film with Nikkatsu's Roman Porno film series, in which he served as assistant director to Kōyū Ohara. The series also gave Kaneko his directorial debut with writer Kōichirō Uno's, Kōichirō Uno's Wet and Swinging ,...
  
  
• George Lucas in Love
  George Lucas in Love
  George Lucas in Love is an independent, live action, parodical short film that started attracting notice in June 1999 when it was passed around Hollywood offices as a filmmaker's "calling card"...
  
  directed by Joe Nussbaum
  Joe Nussbaum
  Joe Nussbaum is an American film director. A graduate of the University of Southern California, he got his break into the movie industry by passing around Hollywood offices his short film George Lucas in Love...
  
  
• The Item directed by Dan Clark
• Komodo
  Komodo (film)
  Komodo is a 1999 thriller / science fiction film directed by Michael Lantieri.-Plot:15 year old Patrick has spent many summer holidays with his parents at their cottage on a small island off the coast of South Carolina. Recent years have seen a growth of industrial developments on the island,...
  
  directed by Michael Lantieri
  Michael Lantieri
  Michael Lantieri is a special effects supervisor on films and also was the director of Komodo. He has worked on numerous films with Steven Spielberg. One of his most famous movies was "Mars Attacks!" where he had the job of creating the very much life-like animations.He was also part of destruction...
  
  
• Possessed directed by Anders Rønnow-Klarlund
• Wadd: The Life and Times of John C. Holmes directed by Cass Paley
• The Wisdom of Crocodiles
  The Wisdom of Crocodiles
  The Wisdom of Crocodiles is a 1998 romantic thriller by Po-Chih Leong starring Jude Law. It is based on the book of the same name by Paul Hoffman.-Cast:Jude Law - Steven Grlscz Elina Löwensohn - Anne Levels...
  
  directed by Po Chih Leong