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Korea Premiere

Special Programs in Focus

The Color of Pomegranates
  • Sergei PARAJANOV
  • Armenia
  • 1968
  • 79min

Blood-red pomegranates dripping on a white cloth, we hear a poignant monologue: “Life and soul are tortures to me.” Elaborate yet stationary images of suppressive religion and thea...

Korea Premiere

Special Programs in Focus

The Legend of Suram Fortress
  • Sergei PARAJANOV,Dodo ABASHIDZE
  • Georgia
  • 1984
  • 88min

Based on a Georgian folk tale of people building a fortress against the enemies, which collapses before completion. A message tells them a boy should be locked inside the wall aliv...

Korea Premiere

Special Programs in Focus

Ashik Kerib
  • Sergei PARAJANOV,Dodo ABASHIDZE
  • Georgia
  • 1988
  • 74min

A minstrel Ashik Kerib falls in love with a rich merchant’s daughter. He goes on a journey to marry her, promising to return in 1000 days after traveling to the end of the world. S...

Korea Premiere

Special Programs in Focus

Arabesques on the Pirosmani Theme
  • Sergei PARAJANOV
  • Georgia
  • 1985
  • 20min

Documentary short film by Sergei Paradjanov, representing the director′s personal view on the Heritage of the Georgian autodidact primitivism painter of the 19th century, one of th...

Korea Premiere

Special Programs in Focus

Parajanov: The Last Spring
  • Mikhail VARTANOV,Sergei PARAJANOV
  • Armenia,United States
  • 1992
  • 55min

Parajanov’s last days recorded by his old friend and filmmaker Mikhail Vartanov. It is a valuable opportunity to see the footage from Parajanov’s unfinished last work

Korea Premiere

Special Programs in Focus

Father of a Soldier
  • Rezo CHKHEIDZE
  • Georgia
  • 1964
  • 88min

Director Rezo Chkheidze, decided to restore the film in colors because it was originally projected a color film but could not afford to cover the expenses. wa...

Asian Premiere

World Cinema

Night of Silence
  • Reis ÇELIK
  • Turkey
  • 2011
  • 92min

An older man recently released from jail after serving his sentence takes a fourteen-year old girl whose face is hidden under a veil as his bride. Their family has arranged this ma...

  • 베를린영화제 제너레이션
Asian Premiere

World Cinema

Eat Sleep Die
  • Gabriela PICHLER
  • Sweden
  • 2012
  • 104min

Ra?, a twentysomething muslim immigrant working at a salad packing plant, is laid off one day and enforced to face the real world. She is an expert in cutting vegetables, but witho...

  • 베니스영화제 비평가주간
Korea Premiere

Gala Presentation

Dangerous Liaisons
  • Jin-ho HUR
  • China
  • 2012
  • 113min

is a powerful and mesmerizing adaptation of the famous French novel 『Les Liaisons Dangereuses』 written by Choderlos de Jaclos. The film is set in the 1930's Sh...

  • 칸영하제 감독주간,2011 APM 프로젝트
Asian Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Mekong Hotel
  • Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL
  • Thailand,UK
  • 2012
  • 61min

It is believed there is a broad range of ghosts In Thailand, one of them being Pob, which lives on human organs. Near the Mekong River at the Thailand-Laos border, there is nothing...

  • 칸영화제 특별상영,Screened with Chini/Trace
Busan Office 3rd Floor, BIFF HILL, Busan Cinema Center, 120, Suyeonggangbyeon-daero, Haeundae-gu, Busan 48058, Korea
Seoul Office #1601, GARDEN TOWER, 84, Yulgok-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul 03131, Korea
Busan Office 3rd Floor, BIFF HILL, Busan Cinema Center, 120, Suyeonggangbyeon-daero, Haeundae-gu, Busan 48058, Korea
Seoul Office #1601, GARDEN TOWER, 84, Yulgok-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul 03131, Korea