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Death March
  • Adolfo ALIX JR.
  • Philippines
  • 2013
  • 110min

On April 1942, Filipino and American soldiers surrendered to Imperialist Japanese army in Bataan, Philippines. Although they were captured as war captives, they had some hope for b...

World Premiere

Wide Angle

Non-fiction Diary
  • Yoonsuk JUNG
  • Korea,South
  • 2013
  • 90min

What happened in Korean society in the 1990s? The film starts with the Jijon-pa (Supreme Gangsters) case. The shocking story is narrated through the discussion by the two detective...

Korea Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Why Don't You Play in Hell?
  • Sion SONO
  • Japan
  • 2013
  • 126min

After ten years of bizarre activity, members of a Yakuza group and amateur film maniacs decide to shoot a film together. The allowed time is ten days. The Yakuza members are waitin...

World Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Queen
  • Vikas BAHL
  • India
  • 2013
  • 146min

At first, Queen takes a classical style of storytelling favored by Bollywood. Rani is a 24-year-old Punjabi woman. Her family is conservative. Her brother escorts her everywhere fo...

Korea Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

The Lunchbox
  • Ritesh BATRA
  • India
  • 2013
  • 101min

A tiny error in everyday life can lead us to where we need to go. A royal housewife Ila who takes care of her husband and young daughter have the lunchbox delivered to her husband ...

  • 칸영화제 비평가주간
World Premiere

Wide Angle

Morning Walk
  • Omkar BARVE
  • India
  • 2013
  • 12min

Early one morning, a boy wakes up and walks toward the center of village. He needs to find stuff to get through his day. On the street polluted with dust and waste, a blunt person ...

Asian Premiere

World Cinema

Stand Clear of the Closing Doors
  • Sam FLEISCHNER
  • United States
  • 2013
  • 98min

Srand Clear of the Closing Doors is the story of Ricky, a 13-year-old boy with autism, and his mother, Mariana. An undocumented immigrant from Mexico, Mariana works long days clean...

Asian Premiere

World Cinema

Heli
  • Amat ESCALANTE
  • Mexico,France,Germany,Netherlands
  • 2013
  • 105min

In Mexico with the war on drugs at its peak, 12-year-old Estela and her brother Heli are soon drawn into the drug trade because of her 17-year-old soldier boyfriend. In the end, th...

  • 칸영화제 감독상
World Premiere

Flash Forward

Home
  • Maximilian HULT
  • Sweden,Iceland
  • 2013
  • 90min

Lu leaves for a remote rural village to live with grandmother after she hears her grandfather has passed away. Being smart but unskilled in human relations, she discovers various a...

Asian Premiere

Wide Angle

Father′s Garden - The Love of My Parents
  • Peter LIECHTI
  • Switzerland
  • 2013
  • 93min

What kind of life have our parents been sharing? The film starts when the director meets his father on the street one day. Father and son seem to be unfamiliar, meeting for the fir...

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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