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Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times
  • John Junkerman
  • Japan
  • 2002
  • 74min

Many believe that 9.11 changed the world. But Noam Chomsky, who has been criticizing US world supremacy for years, says it isn’t so. Power and Terror is a documentary composed of l...

Asian Premiere

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Rooms of Shadow and Light
  • John Webster
  • Finland
  • 2000
  • 60min

Rooms of Shadow and Light, by John Webster, is a documentary set in a brothel in Mumbai, India. A lazy afternoon, the sun is high, and it seems like just another ordinary day for t...

Asian Premiere

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The Skywalk Is Gone
  • Tsai Ming-liang
  • Taiwan
  • 2002
  • 23min

The Skywalk Is Gone is a short film which is an extension of the director’s 2001 feature, What Time Is It There?. Shiang-chyi is wandering about Taipei Main Station without a fixed...

Korea Premiere

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Strings
  • Ong Chao-Hong
  • Singapore
  • 2001
  • 13min

String is a story about a boy who struggles to continue his sense of close kinship with his grandfather after the old man dies. The boy meets another old man who reminds him of his...

Korea Premiere

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Summer, Dream
  • Cheng Yu-chieh
  • Taiwan
  • 2001
  • 61min

Cheng Yu-chieh’s Summer, Dream, which won the ‘best short film award’ at the 2002 Taiwan Golden Horse Film Festival, is about a boy who lives in the Taiwan countryside. Hsia Chih i...

Korea Premiere

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Summers
  • Leon Dai
  • Taiwan
  • 2001
  • 38min

A summer day, a girl, and violence are three key elements that make up this delightful short film. Shai is a teenage girl who spends the summer working as an employee at a small sh...

Korea Premiere

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Three-Five People
  • Lin Li
  • China
  • 2001
  • 85min

Hu, Chen and Tian roam the streets as pickpockets. Their boss takes the boys’ catch and provides them with food and drugs in exchange. Once in a while, when the boys get arrested, ...

Korea Premiere

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Voyeur
  • Aya Mendoza
  • Philippines
  • 2002
  • 13min

Young Nonoi, who lives with his mother and aunt, accidentally watches their sexual act. Nonoi starts to behave strangely after becoming conscious of their relationship. Through thi...

Asian Premiere

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The Wind Will Comb Your Tresses
  • Saman Salour
  • Iran
  • 2002
  • 17min

Through this film, we instantly share in a young boy’s nostalgia for his pure love. He leads us to his memories, where he felt love that is as sweet as honey, as high as the sky, a...

International Premiere

Special Programs in Focus

Our Time, Our Story - 20 years′ New Taiwan Cinema
  • Hsiao Chu-Chen
  • Taiwan
  • 2002
  • 103min

After In Our Time(1982), which served as a prelude, a group of young directors, encouraging and influencing one another, created the turbulent movement which is the Taiwanese New W...

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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