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International Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

The Dancer
  • Ifa ISFANSYAH
  • Indonesia,France
  • 2011
  • 112min

is a touching love story set in 1960s Indonesia during its political turmoil. Srintil and Rasus grow up together in a poor countryside village and ultimately develop a...

Asian Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Valley of Saints
  • Musa SYEED
  • India,United States
  • 2012
  • 82min

Gulzar and his best buddy Afzal live in the war torn area of Kashmir and plan to run off to the city while Gulzar’s uncle is on a pilgrimage. But as soon as he leaves, martial law ...

Korea Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Beautiful 2012
  • Ming-Liang TSAI,Ann HUI,Changwei GU,Tae-yong KIM
  • Hong Kong,China,China
  • 2012
  • 90min

Chinese Internet TV site Youku produced this omnibus film incorporating the works of some of Asia’s best filmmakers: Kim Tae-yong, Tsai Ming-Liang, Gu Changwei and Ann Hui. The fil...

Asian Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Our Homeland
  • YANG Yonghi
  • Japan
  • 2012
  • 100min

Korean-Japanese director Yang Yonghi is a familiar name to us due to her previous films, and , documentaries that told her father’s story a...

  • 베를린영화제 포럼부문,2011 APM 프로젝트
Asian Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Postcards from the Zoo
  • Edwin
  • Indonesia
  • 2012
  • 95min

Emerging Indonesian filmmaker Edwin’s version of the return of the prodigal son is centered Lana, abandoned in a zoo as a three-year-old. Oom, a giraffe keeper, raised her to live ...

Korea Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Rent-A-Cat
  • Naoko OGIGAMI
  • Japan
  • 2012
  • 110min

Ogigami Naoko has always told stories about people locked in their own isolated worlds and is another such film. After her grandmother passes away, Sayoko’s most impor...

  • 베를린영화제 파노라마
World Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Odayaka
  • Nobuteru UCHIDA
  • Japan,United States
  • 2012
  • 102min

is the latest in a long line of 3.11 films, but it may be among the first to deal with the psychological impact of the disaster on average Japanese on a day-to-day basis....

World Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Japan′s Tragedy
  • Masahiro KOBAYASHI
  • Japan
  • 2012
  • 101min

In 2010, 31,560 people ended their own lives and about 20,000 people died or went missing with the earthquake. Unemployed widower Fujio Murai’s family tragedy contains instances of...

Korea Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Love in the Buff
  • Ho-cheung PANG
  • Hong Kong,China
  • 2012
  • 112min

The sequel to Pang Ho-cheung’s commercial success follows the first story of chain-smoking ad executive Jimmy and cosmetic specialist Cherie, who met in a smoking ...

World Premiere

Wide Angle

Night Market
  • Tae-yong KIM
  • Korea,South
  • 2012
  • 22min

Do-han makes money ripping off Chinese tourists visiting Dongdaemun night market. One evening, a Korean-Chinese man, Gwang-ho, asks the wandering Do-han about where he might take a...

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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