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International Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Striking Out in Love
  • Shingo MATSUMURA
  • Japan
  • 2013
  • 114min

A comedy film about two young Japanese women of Satori(nirvana) generation. A freelancer writer Tamami ran into another woman Juno in the house of her boyfriend whom she dated for ...

World Premiere

Korean Cinema Today

Godsend
  • Si-hyun MOON
  • Korea,South
  • 2013
  • 108min

Godsend was made by a rookie director based on a scenario by Kim Ki-duk. A woman who desperately wants a baby asks a girl who is considering abortion to give her the baby instead. ...

Korea Premiere

Wide Angle

Japanese Animations: Masters Collection
  • Katsuhiro OTOMO,Shuhei MORITA,Hiroaki ANDO,Hajime KATOKI
  • Japan
  • 2013
  • 65min

In this omnibus animation created by four directors. Tsukumo and Combustible are miniature animations maximizing the traditional Japanese artistic sensibility of the Edo period. Ts...

Asian Premiere

Wide Angle

The Laundry Room
  • Floriane DEVIGNE,Fred FLOREY
  • Switzerland,France
  • 2013
  • 72min

An apartment operated by the Social Welfare Department of Switzerland has an elevator on the ground floor with a small laundry room beside it. The film narrates the story about tho...

Asian Premiere

Wide Angle

The Last of the Unjust
  • Claude LANZMANN
  • France,Austria
  • 2013
  • 218min

Theresienstadt was a unique place of propaganda which Adolf Eichmann, one of the major Nazi architects of the Holocaust, called the “model ghetto”. It was designed to mislead the w...

  • 칸영화제 비경쟁부문
World Premiere

World Cinema

In Hiding
  • Jan KIDAWA - BLONSKI
  • Poland
  • 2013
  • 98min

In the spring of 1944 in Poland, near the end of WWII, Janina faces a huge change in her life when her father decides to offer a shelter to his Jewish friend’s daughter Ester. One ...

Asian Premiere

World Cinema

The Priest′s Children
  • Vinko BREŠAN
  • Croatia,Serbia
  • 2013
  • 93min

The Catholic priest pierces the condoms to be sold, while the pharmacist substitutes contraception pills with vitamins to boost the birth rate. Unwanted pregnancies occur, bringing...

Asian Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Omar
  • Hany ABU-ASSAD
  • Palestine
  • 2013
  • 94min

The latest film of Hany Abu-Assad, who constantly brings Palestinian issues to his films, conveys the dismal reality in the Israeli-Palestinian relationship that is threatened by I...

  • 칸영화제 주목할만한 시선
World Premiere

Wide Angle

1001 Apples
  • Taha KARIMI
  • Kurd
  • 2013
  • 74min

This film experimentally recreates the history of the Kurdish genocide in Iraq. In 1988, the Iraqi government killed 182,000 Kurds and buried them with ‘Operation Anfal’, an ethnic...

World Premiere

New Currents

Pascha
  • Seonkyoung AHN
  • Korea,South
  • 2013
  • 97min

Forbidden love doesn’t include only immoral intimacy. If a woman in her forties loves a 17-year old male that could also be forbidden. Forty-something, screenwriter Gaeul, lives wi...

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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