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World Premiere

New Currents

Paju
  • PARK Chan Ok
  • Korea
  • 2009
  • 110min

After studying the masculinity of Korean society in her debut feature [Jealousy Is My Middle Name], director Park Chan Ok turns her eyes on the initiation of a girl who happens to ...

International Premiere

New Currents

Squalor
  • Giuseppe Bede SAMPEDRO
  • Philippines
  • 2009
  • 91min

The story of four men in Manila goes on in the format of an omnibus. Ariel, a con-man, living on manipulating documents and deceiving women, encounters a girl Elgin, and faces the ...

World Premiere

New Currents

True Noon
  • Nosir SAIDOV
  • Tajikistan
  • 2009
  • 83min

This film gives one the impression that they’re watching a piece from the Theatre of the Absurd. The moment humans draw a line on the ground and declare it a borderline, the ground...

World Premiere

New Currents

Vihir
  • Umesh Vinayak KULKARNI
  • India
  • 2009
  • 120min

This is a teen movie about a teenager who experiences the death of a loved one. Sameer and Nachiket are relatives and friends. Nachiket, who is more mature, wants to escape his sti...

World Premiere

Korean Cinema Today

Café Noir
  • JUNG Sung-il
  • Korea
  • 2009
  • 197min

Young-soo’s pining for a married woman reminds us of [The Sorrows of Young Werther]. Lost in his despair, he is wandering around Cheong Gye Cheon in Seoul, where he meets Sun-hwa, ...

World Premiere

Korean Cinema Today

Castaway on the Moon
  • LEE Hey-jun
  • Korea
  • 2009
  • 116min

Here are two islands. On Bam Island located on the Han River lives Mr. Kim, a suicide attemptercastaway. On the other island is Ms. Kim’s home. She casts herself adrift for some re...

World Premiere

Korean Cinema Today

The Executioner
  • CHOI Jin Ho
  • Korea
  • 2009
  • 98min

That human nature becoming seriously violent within the system of the death penalty and a jail is what this film serenely gazes into. An execution scheduled to be carried out in 12...

World Premiere

Korean Cinema Today

Haeundae
  • JK YOUN
  • Korea
  • 2009
  • 118min

The way in which [Haeundae] develops its plot can be considered a Koreanized transformation of Hollywood romantic narratives in the pre and post 1950’s. Man-sik and Yeon-hee see-sa...

World Premiere

Korean Cinema Today

Like You Know It All
  • HONG Sang-soo
  • Korea
  • 2009
  • 126min

Invited to serve on the jury at a film festival, Director Ku does not care about his supposed-to-dos. Rather, chatting at parties and drinking now seem to be his all time favorites...

World Premiere

Korean Cinema Today

Loveholic
  • KWON Chil In
  • Korea
  • 2009
  • 110min

This is director Kwon Chil In’s fourth feature film, which deals with the struggle between work and love. At the fore, we see a married couple. One of the wife’s girlfriends unexpe...

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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