New Currents

• Nahid GHOBADI,Bijan ZMANPIRA
• Iraq
• 2012
• 79min

This is a road movie that shouts out Kurdish pain to the world. The President of Iran receives a letter from 111 Kurdish girls. They demand that the government find them husbands, ...

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• Donku LEE
• Korea,South
• 2012
• 103min

could be the ultra-low budget (3 million won) version of Lee Chang-dong’s magnificent Poetry, because it deals with the similar theme. Though an adult coming-of-age story, ...

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• Keiko TSURUOKA
• Japan
• 2012
• 70min

High school is a period of uncertainty: uncertain love, uncertain dreams. is a story about a girl and her friends who take a summer trip to find her brother wh...

New Currents

• Jung-Chi CHANG
• Taiwan,Hong Kong,China
• 2012
• 110min

Five years has passed since the acclaim for Chang’s The End of the Tunnel, and this year he unveils , a feature film version of that short. Based on a true stor...

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• Nawapol THAMRONGRATTANARIT
• Thailand
• 2012
• 68min

Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit’s experimental film consists of 36 static camera shots that tell a story of how we store memories in the digital era. Sai, a location scout working for a...

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• Vincent SANDOVAL
• Philippines
• 2012
• 87min

This film about religion, courage and guilt unfolds in 1971 when Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos’ power was at its peak. New recruit Sister Lourdes and Sister Ruth forge a cl...

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• Nitin KAKKAR
• India
• 2012
• 117min

is a black comedy about understanding each other little by little under serious threats of terror through the medium of cinema. Sunny, struggling to make a living in t...

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• Chao-Jen HSU
• Taiwan
• 2012
• 114min

Let’s just forget about the dramatic love portrayed in films or novels for a moment. The love that Director Hsu Chao-Jen portrays in can easily be called Down-to-Earth. ...

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• Sung-hyun KIM
• Korea,South
• 2012
• 85min

Asserting the idea that minor conflicts can lead to death, is a bold drama of brothers and retaliation. The younger deadbeat squanders the money he manages to bor...

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• Maryam NAJAFI
• Lebanon,Canada
• 2012
• 86min

Running a Lebanese restaurant called ‘Kayan,’ a divorcee Hanin always spends a busy hard day. She takes care of two daughters, barely pays the rent, and worries about money problem...