World Cinema

• Jean-Pierre AMERIS
• France,Czech Republic
• 2012
• 93min

One snowy day, Ursus, a performer in a travelling troupe, comes upon two orphans called Gwynplaine and Dea who are raised as a brother and a sister. After growing up, they fall in love with each other. As they join the troupe, Gwy...

Special Programs in Focus

• Koji WAKAMATSU
• Japan
• 2012
• 118min

Based on Nakagami Kenji’s novel of the same name, Wakamatsu’s latest film, , recounts the stories of three young men born to the Nakamoto clan ? the handsome Hanjo; Miyoshi, the head of the gang and a distant uncle of Hanjo and Sh...

Wide Angle

• Buem PARK
• Korea,South
• 2012
• 28min

Ji-hun, needing money for his last semester of school, works a part-time night job and, one night witnesses a hit-and-run accident. Soon a shadow starts to cast itself over his life. The opposing eyewitness encounter and driver’s ...

Wide Angle

• Sayed Jalal HUSSAINI
• Afghanistan
• 2012
• 26min

A middle-aged soldier stands guard at his war-ravaged post, facing a dilemma between duty and humanity. When he leaves a younger solider takes his place and is faced with the same dilemma. Confronted with a history of violence rep...

World Cinema

• Atiq RAHIMI
• France,Germany,Afghanistan
• 2012
• 98min

In some place like Afghanistan, a woman taking care of her war-injured comatose husband begins to confess to him everything that is in her heart. In the beginning, she merely prays for his recovery, then as time wears on, she even...

World Cinema

• Moussa TOURE
• France,Senegal,Germany
• 2012
• 87min

Baye is a fisherman who provides for his happy family but he must make a difficult choice when he is offered work as the captain of a boat smuggling Senegalese refugees to Spain. By seasoned Senegal director Moussa Toure, is a ma...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Kwontaek IM
• Korea,South
• 2012
• 93min

This film dramatizes the life of Hong Guk-yeong (1748~1781), a powerful politician that was a close advisor to King Jeongjo and worked as a conduit through which the king accessed public sentiment and real-world situations. Filled...

Special Programs in Focus

• Arturo RIPSTEIN
• Mexico
• 2012
• 130min

The film was honored by seven Mexico Academy Awards including the highest 'Ariel de Oro.' One day, a poor and handicapped man happens to be blessed by the changing fortune, and so, is seduced into 'the realm of fortune' where once...

Korean Cinema Today

• Younshick SHIN
• Korea,South
• 2012
• 140min

The second installment of Shin Yeonsik’s middle-aged romance trilogy unfolds like a tragic Russian novel, in a visual monochrome with understated audio. A writer, who had lapsed into unconsciousness at the age of 27, miraculously ...

World Cinema

• Wayne BLAIR
• Australia
• 2012
• 103min

Australia’s indigenous people and a throwback to the Anglo Celtic base of the country’s white settlement, entertainingly intersect in this soul struck fairy tale about a 1960s girl group who went further than they or their people ...