Special Programs in Focus

• Turkey
• 2014
• 122min

A family remains in their island village home despite an eviction order. Animals perish en masse amid a mood of ominous doom, yet women reverse their tragic states with songs of resistance and life. The tale of an island seized by...

Flash Forward

• Canada
• 2014
• 96min

Sitting on the Edge of Marlene is told through the eyes of sixteen year old Sammie. Sammie attends welfare-sponsored after-school Jesus Camp while her alcoholic mother Marlene goes on crime sprees. Mother and daughter share a roma...

• Candidate for BUSAN Bank Award

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand
• 2014
• 85min

This film traces the journey of two Thai boys from disparate backgrounds on their search for answers in religion. Seven-year-old reality show participant William becomes an overnight star and then continues to pursue his dream of ...

• 2014 ACF Post Production Fund

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2014
• 102min

A poor aspiring filmmaker juggles between intermittent assistant director-work and distributing flyers on the street. He marries a Thai woman who moves in with him without a decent wedding. She struggles to adjust to life in Korea...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2014
• 100min

People tend to be intentionally provocative or extremely argumentative over petty matters on twitter. A woman who challenges men becomes targeted as public enemy. Young men expose her identity and even show up on her doorstep. But...

Wide Angle

• Nepal,France
• 2014
• 25min

Krishna has spent the better part of his son’s three-year-life in prison. While on leave he learns his wife is leaving him and taking his son. Krishna comes to the understanding that passing on his Nepalese language and customs ma...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2014
• 108min

Wu Tianming was a leading force in China’s Fourth Generation and an inspiration to the filmmakers of the Fifth Generation. His posthumous Song of Phoenix deals with the conflict between tradition and contemporary values, a consist...

Wide Angle

• Ireland
• 2014
• 93min

Ben is a young boy who lives his parents on a small island with one lonely lighthouse. His mother sings beautiful lullabies for him every night, but dies while giving birth to his sister, Saoirse. When his grandmother finds out th...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2014
• 105min

This legendary film is said to have moved everyone to tears when screened in 1965. The film’s print was found at an archive in Taiwan in 2013, which enabled the 1965 original film to be screened again in Korea this year. Yoon-bok ...

Wide Angle

• Italy,Singapore
• 2014
• 88min

Brillante Mendoza, Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, Eric Khoo and Garin Nugroho are the representative directors that lead the new wave cinema in Southeast Asia. Each of them was recognized by the global film circuit for different styles and i...