20th Festival des 3 Continents, 1998

Official selection fiction
"Regards pluriels"
Tribute to directors
Selection of awarded films
Arte special screenings

OFFICIAL SELECTION

COMPETITION

Xiao Wu - Jia ZHANG-KE - China - 1997
Tropicanita - Daniel DIAZ TORRES - Cuba - 1997
Date Wine (Arak el-balah) Radwan EL-KASHEF - Egypt - 1998
Hold you Tight (Yue kuai le, Yue duo luo) Stanley KWAN - Hong-Kong/China - 1998
Dance of the Dust (Raghs-e khak) Abolfazl JALILI - Iran - 1998
Yom Yom, Day After Day (Yom, Yom) - Amos GITAI - Israel - 1998
After Life - Kore-eda HIROKAZU - Japan - 1998
Beirut, a Ghost City (Ashbah Beyrouth) - Ghassan SALHAB - Lebanon - 1998
The Small Town (Kasaba) - Nuri BILGE CEYLAN - Turkey - 1998

OUT OF COMPETITION

Central do Brasil - Walter SALLES - Brazil - 1997
Xiu Xiu, the Sent Down Girl (Xiu Xiu) - Joan CHEN - China - 1997
Spring in my Hometown - Lee KWANGMO - South Korea - 1998
A Concert in Happiness Lane (Concerto fi darb saada) - Asma EL BAKRI - Egypt - 1998
Days and Nights in the Forest (Aranyer din ratri) - Satyajit RAY - India - 1969
A Leaf on a Pillow (Daun di atas bantal) - Garin NUGROHO - Indonesia - 1998
A Last Note (Gogo no yuigonjo) - Kaneto SHINDO - Japan - 1995
Killer - Darejan OMIRBAEV - Kazakhstan - 1998

REGARDS PLURIELS

Postman Blues - SABU - Japan - 1997
Farewell, fairground Entertainer (Adieu forain) - Daoud AOULAD-SYAD - Morocco - 1998
The Fly of the Bee - Jamshed USMANOW, Min BOUNG-HUN - Tadjikistan/South Korea -
1998
Hai Nguyet - Tran MY HA - Vietnam - 1998

TRIBUTE TO THE DIRECTORS

Each Director has presented his favourite film in his own Work and another director film of the 3 Continents which has been especially significant for him.

Youssef CHAHINE has presented Cairo Station (Bab El-hadid)
and has choosen The Light (Yeelen) by Souleymane CISSE

Chen KAIGE has presented Yellow Earth (Huang Tudi)
and has choosen Rashomon by Akira KUROSAWA

Souleymane CISSE has presented The Girl (Den Muso)
and has choosen The Carter (Borom sarret) by Sembene OUSMANE

Adoor GOPALAKRISHNAN has presented Monolog (Anantharam)
and has choosen The Role (Bhumika) by Shyam BENEGAL

Hou HSIAO-HSIEN has presented The Boys from Feng-Kuei (Feng-kuei lai te jen)
and has choosen Floating Clouds (Ukigumo) by Mikio NARUSE

Im KWON TAEK has presented Two Monks (Mandala)
and has choosen A Stray Bullet (Obaltan) by Yu HYONMOK

Shohei IMAMURA has presented Vengance is Mine (Fukushu suru wa wareni ari)
and has choosen Sanjuro (Tsubaki Sanjuro) by Akira KUROSAWA

Gaston KABORE has presented Buud Yam
and has choosen Keita, the Storyteller's Legacy (Keïta, l�héritage du griot) by Dani KOUYATE

Ömer KAVUR has presented A Broken Hearted Story (Kirik Bir Ask Hikayesi)
and has choosen Kasaba by Nuri BILGE-CEYLAN

Abbas KIAROSTAMI has presented The Passenger (Mosafer)
and has choosen Beyond the Fire (Ansouy-e atash) by Kianoush AYARI

Darejan OMIRBAEV has presented Heartbeats (Kardiogramma)
and has choosen They Call me Koja (Menya zovut Kozha) by A. KARSAKBAEV

Nelson PEREIRA DOS SANTOS has presented My Little Frenchman Was Good to Eat (Como e gostoso o meu frances)
and has choosen Central do Brasil by Walter SALLES

Arturo RIPSTEIN has presented Divine (El evangelio de las maravillas)
and has choosen Nazarin by Luis BUNUEL

Tsai MING-LIANG has presented The River (He Liu)
and has choosen The Winter (Dong Nuan) by Li HANXIANG

Melvin VAN PEEBLES has presented The permission
and has choosen The Castle of the Spider (Kumonoso Ju) by Akira KUROSAWA

Wong KAR WAI has presented Days of Being Wild (A fei zhengzhuan)

SELECTION OF AWARDED FILMS

Latent Image (Imagen latente) - Pablo PERELMAN - Chili - 1987
On the Beat (Minjing gushi) - Ning YING - China -1995
Surrogate Woman (Sibaji) - Im KWON-TAEK - South Korea - 1986
Red (Yanzhi kou) - Stanley KWAN - Hong-Kong/China - 1986
Dance of the Wind (Swara mendel) - Rajan KHOSA - India - 1997
My Sky, My Home (Langitku rumahku) - Slamet RAHARDJO - Indonesia - 1990
Water, Wind, Dust (Ab, bad, khak) - Amir NADERI - Iran - 1989
Untamagiru - Go TAKAMINE - Japan - 1989
Kairat - Darejan OMIRBAEV - Kazakhstan - 1991
Baara - Souleymane CISSÉ - Mali - 1977
Finzan - Cheik Omar SISSOKO - Mali - 1989
The realm of Fortune (El imperio de la fortuna) - Arturo RIPSTEIN - Mexico - 1986
Chronicle of a Disappearence (Segell ikhtifa) - Elia SULEIMAN - Palestine - 1996
The Brother (Bratan) - Bakhtiyar KHUDOYNASAROV - Tadjikistan - 1991
Summer at Grandpa's (Dongdong de ziaqi) - Hou HSIAO-HSIEN - Taiwan - 1984
The Surveyors of the Desert (Les baliseurs du désert) - Nacer KHEMIR - Tunisia - 1984r
Motherland Hotel (Anayurt oteli) - Omer KAVÜR - Turkey - 1987

SPECIAL SCREENING "LA SEPT ARTE"

Midnight (Meia notte) - Walter SALLES et Daniela THOMAS - Brazil - 1997
Last dance - TSAI Ming-Liang - Taiwan - 1998
Life on earth (La vie sur terre) - Abderrahmane SISSAKO - Mauritania - 1998