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World Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

One Summer
  • YANG Yishu
  • China
  • 2014
  • 93min

A professor in the department of drama and movie arts at China’s Nanjing University and novelist, Yang Yishu presents his latest feature following On The Road(2010). One sum...

World Premiere

Wide Angle

Spring Colds
  • KIM Dongha
  • Korea
  • 2014
  • 27min

A girl works at a hamburger joint as a part timer. She makes extra money selling cigarettes to students at the store too. Why is she trying so hard to make money? (NAM Dong-chul)

Midnight Passion

Creep
  • Patrick BRICE
  • United States
  • 2014
  • 78min

Aaron comes across a cryptic online ad: "$1,000 for the day. Filming service. Discretion is appreciated." Low on cash, he travels to a remote mountain town where he meets Josef, hi...

A Window on Asian Cinema

2030
  • Nghiem-Minh NGUYEN-VO
  • Vietnam
  • 2014
  • 98min

A science-fiction thriller set in the near future, 2030 introduces those living in southern Vietnam where global warming has impacted the land. While thematic images of wate...

  • 베를린영화제 파노라마

A Window on Asian Cinema

Journey to the West
  • TSAI Ming Liang
  • France,Taiwan
  • 2014
  • 56min

Another meditative piece of cinema from Tsai Ming-Liang’s, who has been one of the most prominent filmmakers of the new cinema movement in Taiwan since his debut in 1992. The film ...

  • 베를린영화제 파노라마

A Window on Asian Cinema

Memories On Stone
  • Shawkat Amin KORKI
  • Kurd,Germany
  • 2014
  • 97min

After deciding to make a film about the genocide of 182,000 Kurdish people by Iraq in 1988, Hussein and Alan face obstacles in the project from the beginning. Their lead actress, a...

  • 2011 APM 프로젝트

A Window on Asian Cinema

Exit
  • CHIENN Hsiang
  • Taiwan,Hong Kong,China
  • 2014
  • 94min

A feminist film about a middle-aged woman alienated from her family and society, who comes to self-realization as a woman, but must struggle with an unchanging reality. Ling works ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

Ant Story
  • Mostofa Sarwar FAROOKI
  • Bangladesh
  • 2014
  • 97min

Mostofa Farooki has made films following characters who have to make alternative choices in conflicts between inner order and society in films such as Third Person Singular Numb...

  • 2013 APM 프로젝트

A Window on Asian Cinema

Tales
  • Rakhshan BANIETEMAD
  • Iran
  • 2014
  • 92min

The film begins on the streets of Teheran shot from a taxi. Then follows a series of clips from stories pivoting on various people, including a cab driver, a woman on the street, a...

  • 2014 베니스영화제 경쟁부문

A Window on Asian Cinema

Taxi and Telephone
  • Ernest ABDYJAPAROV
  • Kyrgyzstan,Germany
  • 2014
  • 75min

In Kyrgyzstan of the former Soviet Union during the 1960s a taxi is parked in front of a public phone booth. It is late at night with only a few people seeking to use the phone boo...

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