New Currents

• 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 broadcasting company starts to work as an intern a...

New Currents

• 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 work visa expired; Janet’s daughter Jael, a rebel...

New Currents

• 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 preparing for visitors. Mother of the family, Anna,...

New Currents

• 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 this illusion starts off from loneliness. Not bei...

New Currents

• 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 set in India’s Great Rann of Kutch. Bakka, a famous...

New Currents

• 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 on the lake at night. Villagers and classmates spr...

New Currents

• Japan
• 2013
• 107min

Again is the story of a girl who must overcome a painful event. After losing her father in an accident, Hatsumi moves to a small village with her strict mother. She joins the school track team and meets Ryutaro, a boy who picks up...

New Currents

• 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 not left Hom, and decides to head out to Ranong to ...

New Currents

• Thailand,Hong Kong,China
• 2013
• 99min

“The age of dejection.” This is how Director Lee Chatametikool remembers Thailand in 1997. Concrete Cloud is a film that tells us about the young men who survived an era of financial crisis. Mutt, who is working as a stockbroker i...

New Currents

• 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 with a 17-year old. Her family cannot understand any...