Korean Cinema Today
Black DoveThis is a tragic drama about a man whose family was destroyed because of a car accident and the married couple who caused the accident. The parallel narratives of the two families ...
Korean Cinema Today
Dangerously Excited2011 ACF Post-production Fund An ′anti-music′ film, [Dangerously Excited] centers on a seventh grade civil servant and a difficult rock band who come together through an unfortuna...
New Currents
August DrizzleLife, death, and basic human desire?no one can escape from these inevitabilities. [August Drizzle] follows the life of a female mortician and tells a tale of universal human desire...
Korean Cinema Today
(3D)A FishA [Fish] ranks, along with [The Passion of a Man Called Choe Che-u] of New Currents, among the truly great finds at this year’s festival. Shot entirely in 3D with a budget of about...
New Currents
Here...or There?A special story with a blurry line between reality and the surreal, humanity and the spirit, [Here or There] is an experimental piece open to multiple interpretations. The setting...
Korean Cinema Today
Jesus Hospital2011 ACF Post-production Fund In this story of a middle-aged woman who is caught between her religious beliefs and reality, WhangJung-min, who garnered rave reviews for her perfor...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Mother’s ParadiseA tragic but lyrical social drama by Kyrgyzstan’s preeminent filmmaker, Aktan ArymKubat, sees Iranian master director Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s scenario transplanted to Kazakhstan. Polin...
Korean Cinema Today
The King of PigsFollowing on the success of [Leafie], which broke the box office record for Korean animation, selling over 2 million tickets, [The King of Pigs] offers yet another kind of meaningf...
Korean Cinema Today
The Peach TreeStar actress Ku Hye-sun shows what a talented director she is with this, her second feature. Some expectation towards the director has led this film to be included in the Vision se...
Korean Cinema Today
(3D)PersimmonAnother ambitious low-budget 3-D drama distinctive from [A Fish], Persimmon spent the budget of $350,000. The project had started as a cable TV movie that aired last year under the...