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Asian Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

The Brawler
  • Anurag KASHYAP
  • India
  • 2017
  • 153min

The newest movie by Anurag Kashyap, a director who has come to represent India by building a creative cinema world that swings back and forth between Bollywood and independent film...

Korea Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

No Bed Of Roses
  • Mostofa Sarwar FAROOKI
  • Bangladesh,India
  • 2017
  • 86min

Mostofa Sarwar Farooki’s latest feature tells a somber and heart-wrenching story largely through flashbacks, ellipses, subtle silences and spot-on acting performances: A celebrated...

International Premiere

Gala Presentation

Narratage
  • Isao YUKISADA
  • Japan
  • 2017
  • 140min

The latest work by Yukisada Isao, who is establishing his own refined sub-genre, crafting films about love rendered with an exquisite and subtle sensitivity. He narrates the scenes...

World Premiere

New Currents

End of Summer
  • ZHOU Quan
  • China
  • 2017
  • 102min

Soccer became popular in China thanks to the 1998 FIFA World Cup. Xiaoyang, who loves soccer, wants to get onto the school’s team, but his father doesn’t allow him, saying it’s mor...

World Premiere

Wide Angle

In the Claws of a Century Wanting
  • Jewel MARANAN
  • Philippines,Germany,Qatar
  • 2017
  • 123min

A documentary about people living around Manila, In the Claws of a Century Wanting explores the harsh lives led in the backstreets of the port, a world of busy working people, ship...

  • 2013 AND BIFF메세나펀드
Korea Premiere

Wide Angle

A Feeling Greater Than Love
  • Mary JIRMANUS SABA
  • Lebanon
  • 2017
  • 93min

The documentary offers insights into revolution and history. Many documentaries on Lebanese politics explore the causes of the civil war, explain the relationship between religion ...

  • 2014 AND BIFF메세나펀드, 베를린영화제 포럼
International Premiere

Flash Forward

Never Steady, Never Still
  • Kathleen HEPBURN
  • Canada
  • 2017
  • 111min

Having lived with Parkinson’s disease for almost two decades, Judy is faced with the heightened challenges of daily life when her husband and caregiver dies of a sudden heart attac...

World Premiere

Wide Angle

Chronicle of a Durian
  • Xiao YANG
  • China
  • 2017
  • 18min

On a rainy day, Zhang Xin, a filmmaker who suffers from obsession deeply, comes across a strange girl, carrying a durian. He can’t help but walk towards her. This beautiful bubble ...

World Premiere

World Cinema

Platoon
  • Oliver STONE
  • United States,UK
  • 1986
  • 120min

Director Oliver Stone’s 1986 breakout tracks the journey of young volunteer Chris Taylor from innocence to brutal adulthood at the height of the Vietnam War in 1967. The 25th infan...

International Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Pigeon Tango
  • LEE Chi Yuarn
  • Taiwan
  • 2017
  • 108min

Human organ trafficking is modern cannibalism. This is a Taiwanese noir film mixed with ancient words and family drama, touching our hearts in its repeated twists that continue to ...

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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