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World Premiere

Wide Angle

A Little Wisdom
  • KANG Yuqi
  • Nepal,Canada,China
  • 2017
  • 92min

Known as the birthplace of Buddha, Lumbini, Nepal, is a famous pilgrimage site with more than 40 Buddhist temples. In the temples, hundreds of children, mostly orphans, receive car...

Asian Premiere

Wide Angle

Blood Amber
  • LEE Yong Chao
  • Taiwan,Myanmar
  • 2017
  • 96min

The documentary shows people working in the amber mines, deep in the forests of Myanmar. The region is ruled by Kachin Independence Army in Myanmar. Most residents dig the ground, ...

Asian Premiere

World Cinema

The Other Side of Hope
  • Aki KAURISMAKI
  • Finland,Germany
  • 2017
  • 98min

A Syrian refugee, Khaled, sneaks onto a coal freighter and smuggles himself into Helsinki. He seeks asylum only to be turned down, which leaves him no choice but to live on the str...

  • 베를린영화제 감독상
International Premiere

Wide Angle

I′ve Got a Little Problem
  • ZHANG Ximing
  • China
  • 2017
  • 44min

The film documents the life, art and troubles of the late Ren Hang. He was a Chinese photographer and poet who took nude photographs of his friends with a cheap digital camera. Whi...

Asian Premiere

Wide Angle

i′ve got the blues
  • Angie CHEN
  • Hong Kong,China,France
  • 2017
  • 90min

From the very beginning, the documentary takes an entirely unexpected direction. At first, Angie Chen seems to depict Wong Yan-kwai’s artistic aspects as diligently as possible. Wh...

  • 2017 AND BIFF메세나펀드
Asian Premiere

Open Cinema

The Shape of Water
  • Guillermo DEL TORO
  • United States
  • 2017
  • 123min

From master storyteller, Guillermo del Toro, comes The Shape of Water?an other-worldly fairy tale set against the backdrop of Cold War-era America circa 1962. In the hidden ...

  • 베니스영화제 황금사자상
Asian Premiere

Gala Presentation

Manhunt
  • WOO John
  • Hong Kong,China,China
  • 2017
  • 111min

As a remake of YouMust Cross the River of Wrath (1976), dedicated to the late Takakura Ken, Manhunt follows the journey of upstanding lawyer Du Qiu (Zhang Hanyu), who...

Asian Premiere

Wide Angle

The Tatami Galaxy
  • Masaaki YUASA
  • Japan
  • 2010
  • 23min

Set in Kyoto, starting with a mediocre college student, this TV animation series tells the secret confession about how which club you choose freshman year changes everything.

  • 포커스: 유아사 마사아키
Asian Premiere

Wide Angle

Ping Pong The Animation
  • Masaaki YUASA
  • Japan
  • 2014
  • 23min

Peco and Smile belong to the ping pong team at Katase High School. Smile had started playing ping pong when he was a child, but he couldn’t beat Peco. The team coach starts giving ...

  • 포커스: 유아사 마사아키
Korea Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Blade of the Immortal
  • Takashi MIIKE
  • Japan,UK
  • 2017
  • 140min

This movie is adapted from the chivalry cartoon by Samura Hiroaki, Blade of the Immortal, which has joined the ranks of classics in the field. This movie received attention ...

  • 칸영화제
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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