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Wide Angle

Embers
  • Tamara STEPANYAN
  • Lebanon,Qatar,Armenia
  • 2012
  • 77min

The director shares the same name as her grandmother. After the elder Tamara’s death, the younger Tamara begins to recollect her grandmother’s life. Her grandmother’s favorite perf...

World Premiere

Wide Angle

King Hu
  • Hubert NIOGRET
  • France
  • 2012
  • 48min

A documentary film dealing with the artistic world of the wuxia film master King Hu, the artist who took wuxia cinema in Hong Kong to a new level. Differentiating himself from hisc...

World Premiere

Wide Angle

Kiruna-Kigali
  • Goran KAPETANOVIC
  • Sweden,Rwanda
  • 2012
  • 15min

In the midst of frost and snow, a woman is driving her way to the hospital in Kiruna, the northernmost city of Sweden. Under the scorching sunlight of Kigali, Rwanda, another woman...

World Premiere

New Currents

Together
  • Chao-Jen HSU
  • Taiwan
  • 2012
  • 114min

Let’s just forget about the dramatic love portrayed in films or novels for a moment. The love that Director Hsu Chao-Jen portrays in can easily be called Down-to-Earth. ...

International Premiere

Flash Forward

Flower Buds
  • Zdeněk JIRÁSKÝ
  • Czech Republic
  • 2011
  • 91min

Jarda’s family lives in a small border village. His job is to control railway signals. He spends his spare time making models in bottles. He is also a slot machine addict. His wife...

International Premiere

World Cinema

PURGE
  • Antti JOKINEN
  • Finland,Estonia
  • 2012
  • 125min

Allide experienced The Great Terror under Stalin’s regime, and decades after her hometown people were deported to Siberia, she lives alone in an isolated house. One night, she find...

Asian Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Born to Hate... Destined to Love...
  • Habib FAISAL
  • India
  • 2012
  • 131min

is a contemporary Bollywood interpretation of Shakespeare′s classic Romeo and Juliet. While there are many modern reinterpretations of the Bard, this film is one of th...

Asian Premiere

World Cinema

Material
  • Craig FREIMOND
  • SouthAfrica
  • 2012
  • 93min

Cassim is a young Muslim working at his father′s fabric store. Kind and handsome, he is loved by everyone. Ebrahim, his father, wants him to run his store afterward but Cassim is h...

International Premiere

Wide Angle

Cut To Fit
  • Giovanni LA PÀROLA
  • Italy
  • 2012
  • 15min

This short film shines with rhythmical editing, smooth camerawork, sophisticated sets and beautiful images in a story of revenge, style and memory during a peasant revolt. In addit...

World Premiere

Wide Angle

The Knitting
  • Eun-hye YOON
  • Korea,South
  • 2012
  • 12min

A woman is packing to move. Among the scattered piles she finds a knitting bag with an unfinished garment inside. She restarts the project but is soon disturbed by a friend hoveri...

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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