Gala Presentation

• Kazakhstan
• 2013
• 80min

This is the third feature film of Zhanna Issabayeva, independent filmmaker and an outsider of the Kazakhstan film world. Abandoned girls’ desperate lives are depicted in a frighteningly realistic way. Nagima, discharged from an or...

Gala Presentation

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 31min

The story itself is not special, but as The X was specially made for screen X, it’s worth noting its photography, editing, and sound. Action scenes featuring gunfights, explosions, automobile chases and so on, utilize the off-scre...

Gala Presentation

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 125min

An Ice Age once comes again to Earth. Everything freezes and the last human survivors get on a train. In time, the oppressed people living at the train’s tail rise in revolt and advance toward the front section. They eventually su...

Gala Presentation

• Israel,France
• 2013
• 74min

On the border between Israeli Jaffa and Bat Yam, exists a community of Jewish and Arab outsiders. A reporter arrives at the place where Siam Hasan used to live, doing interviews with the people in the community. The true meaning o...

• Venice Film Festival (In Competition)

Gala Presentation

• Japan
• 2013
• 135min

The Tokugawa shogunate has just collapsed and the Meiji Era is dawning in Japan, and former samurai Jubei is lying low and living as a father of two and a farmer in a secluded island in Hokkaido. One day, former friend Baba comes ...

Gala Presentation

• India
• 2013
• 151min

Mani Ratnam’s epic drama about salvation and forgiveness shows charisma and brilliant imagery. The story begins with the long and ill-fated relationship between two theology students, Sam Fernando and Bergman. When he begins his p...