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Remote Control
  • Byamba SAKHYA
  • Mongolia,Germany
  • 2013
  • 90min

Making you believe you have something you can’t have. Confusing the boundary between reality and ideals. That is what a remote control, a symbol of convenience, does sometimes. And...

World Premiere

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The Story of an Old Woman
  • Alexey GORLOV
  • Kazakhstan
  • 2013
  • 75min

Director Aleksey Gorlov’s second feature is an experimental film executed in a single take. It makes sharp criticisms of the selfish nature of mankind. The Ruslan mansion is busy p...

World Premiere

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Pascha
  • Seonkyoung AHN
  • Korea,South
  • 2013
  • 97min

Forbidden love doesn’t include only immoral intimacy. If a woman in her forties loves a 17-year old male that could also be forbidden. Forty-something, screenwriter Gaeul, lives wi...

World Premiere

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Steel Cold Winter
  • Jin-seong CHOI
  • Korea,South
  • 2013
  • 110min

A boy transfers to a school in the countryside, where he finds himself attracted to a mysterious girl. The girl lives alone with her mental patient father and enjoys skating alone ...

World Premiere

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Jal (Water)
  • Girish MALIK
  • India
  • 2013
  • 117min

Through the story of a dowser, a person looking for a vein of water, this film criticizes man’s selfish instincts, greed and evil. It is Girish Malik’s first feature. The film is s...

World Premiere

New Currents

Sarikend
  • Mehdi PARIZAD
  • Iran,Iran
  • 2013
  • 74min

A short meeting between a TV commercial film director and a lonely old man. Their meeting was fleeting, but the old man’s lifelong loneliness leaves a strong impression on the dire...

World Premiere

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10 Minutes
  • Yong-seung LEE
  • Korea,South
  • 2013
  • 93min

This film has been compared to Yoon Taeho’s webtoon Incomplete Life in its attention to detail in its description of the workplace. A young man preparing for an exam to work for a ...

World Premiere

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The Isthmus
  • Sopawan BOONNIMITRA,Peerachai KERDSINT
  • Thailand
  • 2013
  • 90min

After Gee, her Burmese housekeeper dies, 8-year-old Hom suddenly forgets her native Thai language and starts to speak in Burmese. Hom’s mother, Da, believes that Gee’s spirit has n...

International Premiere

New Currents

Transit
  • Hannah ESPIA
  • Philippines
  • 2013
  • 92min

A female director’s first feature about the depressing lives of Philippine laborers in Israel. The characters include Janet, who does not know when she will be deported because her...

World Premiere

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Toilet Blues
  • Dirmawan HATTA
  • Indonesia
  • 2012
  • 87min

A road movie about two young people’s journey into adulthood. Anjani just ran away from home, and Anggalih dreams of becoming a priest. They share a platonic love and leave on a jo...

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