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Buy My Fist
  • KIM Kee-duk
  • Korea
  • 1966
  • 112min

Kim’s famous boxing film stars Kim Gi-su, who was a famous champion at the time. Long takes of boxing scenes are vivid and real as two sets of fists cut across the screen. However ...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

Horse-year Bride
  • KIM Kee-duk
  • Korea
  • 1966
  • 92min

This is a story about three new brides born in the year of the horse. They are all familiar with the saying,‘ women born in the year of the horse have a rough fate,’which has prove...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

I Will Be a King for the Day
  • KIM Kee-duk
  • Korea
  • 1966
  • 110min

The family of Wang Bal-san, a businessman based in Busan, has never seen a peaceful day. While Wang Bal-san has earned the respect befitting a prominent man of character, he has ne...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

Monster Yonggari
  • KIM Kee-duk
  • Korea
  • 1967
  • 80min

The very first Korean monster, Yonggari is born from a nuclear explosion test carried out by a foreign country. As his destruction commences in the midst of Seoul, the city declare...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

Until That Day
  • KIM Kee-duk
  • Korea
  • 1969
  • 96min

Yoo Bong-Eun, a widowed hospital dormitory matron, has a younger boyfriend. In order to keep him by her side while maintaining a respectable front, she insists that he marry a nurs...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

Kinship
  • KIM Soo-yong
  • Korea
  • 1963
  • 81min

The shabby and desperate daily lives of three families unfold against the backdrop of Haebangchon village, where people from North Korea who have crossed the border to the South li...

International Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Eternity
  • M.L. Bhandevanov DEVAKULA
  • Thailand
  • 2010
  • 129min

Does eternal love exist? What is true love? M. L. Bhandevanov Devakula’s Eternity poses fundamental questions about love. This film is an adaptation of a short story by renowned Th...

International Premiere

Flash Forward

Courage
  • Greg ZGLINSKI
  • Poland
  • 2011
  • 88min

Fred and Jurek are brothers. Their father always advises them to cooperate but the brothers who run a business together are always in discord like Cain and Abel, each insisting on ...

International Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Habibi
  • Susan YOUSSEF
  • Palestine,Netherlands,United Arab Emirates,United States
  • 2011
  • 78min

Reasons for hopeless love vary from era to era, and from society to society. Sometimes love cannot be acted upon or expressed because of social or political reasons. Such cases are...

International Premiere

Flash Forward

LA-BAS - A Criminal Education
  • Guido LOMBARDI
  • Italy
  • 2011
  • 100min

Yssouf moves from North Africa to Campania in South Italy looking for work. The lives of African immigrants there are worse than expected and his uncle, once an artist, has become ...

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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
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