A Window on Asian Cinema

• Vietnam
• 2014
• 98min

A science-fiction thriller set in the near future, 2030 introduces those living in southern Vietnam where global warming has impacted the land. While thematic images of water, the horizon and sea burials reveal a unique lyricism, ...

• Berlin Film Festival (Panorama)

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China,France
• 2014
• 98min

When his mother suddenly vanishes, a young boy wanders the valley wasteland along the YellowRiver with only a letter from his mother in his possession. He ends up at a coal mining village where he finds a job. But when the backbre...

• 2012 APM Project, 2014 ACF Post-production Fund

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2014
• 26min

Kyungeon lives with mom and her sister. Her mom is about to marry a man with a son and invites them to a meeting to introduce each other. After the meeting, Kyungeon goes to meet her daddy, who hasn’t met for a long time. (NAM Don...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran,Afghanistan
• 2014
• 90min

In the outskirts of metropolitan Tehran, Iranian as well as Afghan employees work in a shabby factory. Marona lost her mother and house to a bombing in Afghanistan then fled to Iran with her father, a former soldier. She falls in ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2014
• 119min

Young-nam is newly appointed as the head of a police substation in a rural village. She acquaints herself with a young girl named Dohee. Bullied by her family and friends, Young-nam tries to protect Dohee. Living with her “father ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2014
• 111min

On the way to his mother’s funeral, a detective accidentally hits a person with his car. He takes the body with him and puts it into his mother’s coffin. The moment he feels relieved, he receives a call. This caller insists that h...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2014
• 69min

As a documentary director and a citizen who used power created at the nuclear plant, Kana Tomoko feels it her responsibility to report the leak situation in tsunami-battered Fukushima. After returning to Tokyo she finds out that s...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2014
• 99min

Filmmaker Lee Kwang-kuk noted for his unique style of deriving a story from another story in his debut film Romance Joe(2011) returns with another interesting narrative structure in his 2nd film A Matter of Interpretation. The fil...

• 2014 ACF Post-production Fund

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,Japan
• 2014
• 96min

A Korean filmmaker journeys to a small rural town in Japan, Gojo with his assistant director Mijung who interprets for him. The film is in two parts whereby the first tells the story of the filmmaker’s encounters with interesting ...

World Cinema

• Sweden
• 2014
• 100min

Sam and Jonathan are salesmen selling new products resemble a modern Don Quixote and Sancho. Through their journey, the various angles of the human condition with all its humor, tragedy, vulnerability and greatness are highlighted...

• Venice Film Festival (In Competition)