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Midnight Passion

Hierro
  • Gabe IBAŇEZ
  • Spain
  • 2009
  • 90min

While travelling by ferry to the island of El Hierro, Maria loses her young son Diego. Has he fallen overboard? Has he been abducted? Nobody knows. Diego simple vanishes. Six month...

World Premiere

Opening Film

Good Morning President
  • JANG Jin
  • Korea
  • 2009
  • 131min

Good Morning President is an abridged version of the politics and life of three different presidents. The three are: the older President Kim Jung-ho at the end of his term, the you...

International Premiere

Closing Film

The Message
  • CHEN Kuo-fu,GAO Qunshu
  • China
  • 2009
  • 120min

China, 1942. The Chinese leaders acting as Japanese puppets are assassinated one after another. In order to catch the “phantom”, the spy within the intelligence sector, the Japanes...

International Premiere

Gala Presentation

Chengdu, I Love You
  • Fruit CHAN,CUI Jian
  • China
  • 2009
  • 78min

This film was designed to heal the pain of the great Sichuan earthquake. Fruit Chan and Cui Jian each produced an episode. Fruit Chan’s [1976] is the story of a tea master who retu...

World Premiere

Gala Presentation

The Fair Love
  • SHIN Yeon-Shick
  • Korea
  • 2009
  • 115min

An unstoppable romance between an old bachelor in his 50s and a college girl in her 20s. Despite the twenty-six year age difference and the fact that he is dating his friend’s daug...

World Premiere

Gala Presentation

I Am Love
  • Luca GUADAGNINO
  • Italy
  • 2009
  • 120min

Emma, from Russia, gets married into the rich, upper class Recchi family of Milano. On her father-in-law’s birthday, her son, Edoardo, and her husband, Tancredi, are both announced...

World Premiere

Gala Presentation

I Come with the Rain
  • TRAN Anh Hung
  • France,United States
  • 2009
  • 110min

In Los Angeles, Kline (Josh Hartnett), a young ex-cop, is struggling with the psychological trauma of his last case: tracking down and slaying a serial killer. Turning to private d...

World Premiere

Gala Presentation

In My End is My Beginning
  • MIN Kyu-dong
  • Korea
  • 2009
  • 87min

When Jung-ha loses her husband in an accident, Naru, her husband’s secret lover, comes to her. Naru begs Jung-ha that she will do anything if only she will let her stay at her hous...

World Premiere

Gala Presentation

A Little Pond
  • LEE Sang-woo
  • Korea
  • 2009
  • 86min

July, 1950. The country is astir with the Korean War, but things in Bawui-gol, a small mountain village, go on as normal. Once in a while they hear news about the war through peopl...

World Premiere

Gala Presentation

Symbol
  • MATSUMOTO Hitoshi
  • Japan
  • 2009
  • 93min

Matsumoto Hitoshi’s second film [Symbol] (2009) follows a popular and charismatic comedian in Japan and is similar to [Dai Nipponjin] (2007), and [Big Man Japan] (American Version)...

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