New Currents

• Nahid GHOBADI,Bijan ZMANPIRA
• Iraq
• 2012
• 79min

This is a road movie that shouts out Kurdish pain to the world. The President of Iran receives a letter from 111 Kurdish girls. They demand that the government find them husbands, ...

Wide Angle

• Junichi KANAI
• Japan
• 2012
• 20min

When a transfer student is introduced and tells her new classmates she’s not looking for any friends, the ostracized Yoko immediately pursues a friendship with her. Transferring hu...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Nonzee NIMIBUTR
• Thailand
• 2012
• 111min

The latest by acclaimed director Nonzee Nimibutr, Distortion opens with lively music and a murder scene wherein the fluid movement of a hammer rains blows down on what appears to b...

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Korean Cinema Today

• Dae-seung KIM
• Korea,South
• 2012
• 122min

“Palace, a place of insanity, and the lust and mad politics in it." This phrase clearly indicates the film′s personality. Confusing mixture of lust and politics is the real theme o...

Korean Cinema Today

• Sang-soo IM
• Korea,South
• 2012
• 115min

This film is about the creme de la creme of society who are addicted to the sweet taste of money as they pursue their desires at the price of public humiliation with only a hint of...

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Korean Cinema Today

• Ji-woo JUNG
• Korea,South
• 2012
• 129min

This movie shows a huge development in Korean melodramas. The three main characters are an elderly man who is a great poet, a young writer who is the poet’s student with no special...

Korean Cinema Today

• Yong-zoo LEE
• Korea,South
• 2012
• 118min

This romantic box office hit revolves around a love story between two students, its bitter disintegration and rekindling 15 years later. A great part of the film’s success must be ...

Korean Cinema Today

• BYUN Young-joo
• Korea,South
• 2012
• 117min

This mystery drama unfolds from a story about a woman whose whole life is fake, a fiancee who is obsessed by the missing fiancee, and a cousin who used to be a police detective. Th...

Korean Cinema Today

• Jong-bin YOON
• Korea,South
• 2012
• 133min

This is the “Crime thriller of 2012” involving organized crime world set in the 1980’s in the port city of Busan. It’s actually the director’s father’s generation and so the “retro...

Korean Cinema Today

• Sang-soo HONG
• Korea,South
• 2012
• 89min

The latest Hong Sang-soo film is characterized by the unique motif of repetition and variation. In the film, a student majoring in cinema moves to Mohang, a small beach town, follo...

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