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International Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Distortion
  • Nonzee NIMIBUTR
  • Thailand
  • 2012
  • 111min

The latest by acclaimed director Nonzee Nimibutr, Distortion opens with lively music and a murder scene wherein the fluid movement of a hammer rains blows down on what appears to b...

  • 2011 APM 프로젝트
Asian Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

The Land of Hope
  • Sion SONO
  • Japan
  • 2012
  • 134min

If the only thing left after a massive disaster is hope, what could that hope be for? Sono Sion’s Land of Hope is a story about looking for hope where there is none. In Ohara villa...

Korea Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

STUDENT
  • Darezhan OMIRBAYEV
  • Kazakhstan
  • 2012
  • 90min

The life is a struggle to survive in a jungle. A student majoring Philosophy suffers from lack of money and loneliness being under the pressure of the atmosphere of poverty, total ...

  • 칸영화제 주목할만한시선
World Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Shyamal Uncle Turns off the Lights
  • Suman GHOSH
  • India
  • 2012
  • 65min

Similar to his penetrating previous work, , this film is based on a true story and demonstrates director Suman Ghosh’s innate ability to create inspiring cinema. Shyam...

Korea Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Six Degrees of Separation from Lilia Cuntapay
  • Antoinette JADAONE
  • Philippines
  • 2011
  • 93min

A mockumentary is about the desperate hope of a veteran yet unknown actress over 30 years of career mostly taking bit parts as a ghost or witch in horror flicks. When Lilia Cuntapa...

Korea Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

10+10
  • Hsiao-Hsien HOU
  • Taiwan
  • 2011
  • 114min

<10+10> is an omnibus feature where in 20 filmmakers were challenged to express the socalled authenticity of Taiwan as perceived by their own critical eyes. Commissioned by the Tai...

  • 배를린영화제 파노라마
International Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

The Dancer
  • Ifa ISFANSYAH
  • Indonesia,France
  • 2011
  • 112min

is a touching love story set in 1960s Indonesia during its political turmoil. Srintil and Rasus grow up together in a poor countryside village and ultimately develop a...

Asian Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Valley of Saints
  • Musa SYEED
  • India,United States
  • 2012
  • 82min

Gulzar and his best buddy Afzal live in the war torn area of Kashmir and plan to run off to the city while Gulzar’s uncle is on a pilgrimage. But as soon as he leaves, martial law ...

Korea Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Beautiful 2012
  • Ming-Liang TSAI,Ann HUI,Changwei GU,Tae-yong KIM
  • Hong Kong,China,China
  • 2012
  • 90min

Chinese Internet TV site Youku produced this omnibus film incorporating the works of some of Asia’s best filmmakers: Kim Tae-yong, Tsai Ming-Liang, Gu Changwei and Ann Hui. The fil...

Asian Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Our Homeland
  • YANG Yonghi
  • Japan
  • 2012
  • 100min

Korean-Japanese director Yang Yonghi is a familiar name to us due to her previous films, and , documentaries that told her father’s story a...

  • 베를린영화제 포럼부문,2011 APM 프로젝트
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Busan Office 3rd Floor, BIFF HILL, Busan Cinema Center, 120, Suyeonggangbyeon-daero, Haeundae-gu, Busan 48058, Korea
Seoul Office #1601, GARDEN TOWER, 84, Yulgok-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul 03131, Korea