Special Program in Focus
One More ChanceThe Chinese title of the film One More Chance translates to “Don’t call me the God of Gamblers,” a parody of the highly successful film God of Gamblers . Leaving behi...
Korean Cinema Today
RansomedEven if it’s clear where we’re headed, we’re going all the way together without a single glance away. Filled equally with suspense and laughter, Ransomed is the latest film ...
Midnight Passion
Birth/RebirthRose is a pathologist who prefers working with corpses over social interactions with the living. She also has an obsession: the reanimation of the dead. Celie is a maternity nurse ...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Critical ZoneCritical Zone is the sensational film that won the Golden Leopard at Locarno despite the Iranian government banning its director from leaving the country and attempting to c...
Flash Forward
Upon Open SkyFernando and Salvador embark on an expedition across northern Mexico to find the culprit behind the traffic accident that claimed their father’s life. Their uninvited stepsister Pa...
Special Screening
PoetryA poem emerges from pain, much like a bird breaking free from its shell. Only when the world is dismantled can a poem stand whole. Mija (Yun Jung-hee) aspires to write poems. She s...
Special Screening
MistDirector Kim Soo-yong’s 1967 film, Mist, eloquently conveys the unspeakable. Adapted directly by Kim Seung-ok himself from his novel, Record of a Journey to Mujin, th...
Flash Forward
The DreamerIf Jacques Rivette’s The Beautiful Troublemaker (1991) is an art of time and beauty, The Dreamer is an art of love and dreams. Raphael, an ugly fat man with only one ...
Open Cinema
Revolver LilyRevolver Lily is director Yukisada Isao’s stunning adaptation of Nagaura Kyo’s crime novel of the same. In 1924, before Japan enters the Pacific War, the Japanese army murde...
World Cinema
The King TideThe mayor of an idyllic island village discovers a girl awash on their shores. He and his wife who have no children of their own, take care of her as if she were their own daughter...