Special Programs in Focus

• Arturo RIPSTEIN
• Mexico
• 1979
• 95min

A pickpocket who has been released from prison tries to start a new life but he cannot escape from the shadow of his past. While the main character is being haunted by his past and...

Special Programs in Focus

• Arturo RIPSTEIN
• Mexico
• 1973
• 110min

Based on a gruesome true story which occurred at Mexico City in the 1950′s, the film unfolds the theme of restraint, utilizing various tools; the husband obsessing his wife′s past,...

Special Programs in Focus

• Arturo RIPSTEIN
• Mexico
• 1986
• 130min

The film was honored by seven Mexico Academy Awards including the highest 'Ariel de Oro.' One day, a poor and handicapped man happens to be blessed by the changing fortune, and so,...

Wide Angle

• Kaynipa POLNIKORN
• Thailand
• 2012
• 15min

A woman’s long day of taking care of her Asperger’s-afflicted son while trying to earn a living is complicated when she loses her job. A child who is indifferent to her suffering a...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Darezhan OMIRBAYEV
• Kazakhstan
• 2012
• 90min

The life is a struggle to survive in a jungle. A student majoring Philosophy suffers from lack of money and loneliness being under the pressure of the atmosphere of poverty, total ...

• 칸영화제 주목할만한시선

Wide Angle

• Roqiye TAVAKOLI
• Iran
• 2012
• 15min

Saba is caring for older sister’s children after her unexpected death. She is attracted to a school teacher but cannot open her mind to him for children’s sake. Saba’s heart is hea...

New Currents

• Donku LEE
• Korea,South
• 2012
• 103min

could be the ultra-low budget (3 million won) version of Lee Chang-dong’s magnificent Poetry, because it deals with the similar theme. Though an adult coming-of-age story, ...

Wide Angle

• Mo YUN
• Korea,South
• 2012
• 21min

Precious moments create precious lives. A red-light district is about to be eliminated because of a recently enacted law, but before that a high school girl, clearly out of her ele...

Wide Angle

• Ji-yun CHUNG
• Korea,South
• 2012
• 13min

Young-ju returns to her father’s home after five years away. His various keepsakes and the traces of his life are difficult to face; her relationships exist only as memories the ob...

Wide Angle

• Abu Shahed EMON
• Bangladesh,Korea,South
• 2012
• 15min

An immigrant worker decorates his home?a container?with the found trash of other people’s lives. The man prides himself on the upkeep of his modest home. After he’s evicted from hi...