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World Premiere

Open Cinema

Five Minutes to Tomorrow
  • Isao YUKISADA
  • China
  • 2014
  • 129min

Born as identical twins, RuoLan and RuMei used to change their clothes to trick people. Now as grownups, RuMei has become a famous star, while her older sister RuoLan, lives an ord...

  • 2012 APM 프로젝트
International Premiere

Wide Angle

Rowboat
  • CJ Hsi-Chieh WANG
  • Taiwan
  • 2014
  • 28min

A boy meets a girl on Green Lake, Taipei’s famous dating spot. Mesmerized by the girl’s beauty, the boy spares no effort in getting closer to her. The chemistry between them is pal...

A Window on Asian Cinema

Over Your Dead Body
  • MIIKE Takashi
  • Japan
  • 2014
  • 94min

Over Your Dead Body is the latest of director Miike Takashi’s signature horror movies. Kosuke is cast in a theatrical play adapted from Japan’s classic ghost tale Yotsuya...

World Cinema

Pasolini
  • Abel FERRARA
  • France,Italy,Belgium
  • 2014
  • 87min

Pasolini recomposes Italian poet and film director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s last day of life. On November 2nd, 1975, the day when he was killed, Pasolini spends time with his m...

  • 베니스영화제 경쟁부문

A Window on Asian Cinema

Fires on the Plain
  • Shinya TSUKAMOTO
  • Japan
  • 2014
  • 87min

On an island in the Philippines, right before the end of World War II, Allied Forces and Resistance attacks have cut off the Japanese army’s food supply. Tamura is kicked out of hi...

  • 베니스영화제 경쟁부문 / 2005 APM 프로젝트
World Premiere

Wide Angle

Southeast Asian Cinema - When the Rooster Crows
  • Leonardo CINIERI LOMBROSO
  • Italy,Singapore
  • 2014
  • 88min

Brillante Mendoza, Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, Eric Khoo and Garin Nugroho are the representative directors that lead the new wave cinema in Southeast Asia. Each of them was recognized by ...

World Cinema

Price of Fame
  • Xavier BEAUVOIS
  • France,Switzerland,Belgium
  • 2014
  • 115min

After a stint in prison, Eddy stays with a friend, Osman, to look after his seven-year-old daughter. Osman’s wife needs an operation but the couple doesn’t have the money. One day,...

  • 베니스영화제 경쟁부문

Gala Presentation

The President
  • Mohsen MAKHMALBAF
  • Georgia,France,UK,Germany
  • 2014
  • 115min

Due to raging, negative public sentiment, we follow the collapse of an authoritarian leader and his grandson in the film The President. In an unknown country, a dictatorial Preside...

  • 2013 APM 프로젝트

A Window on Asian Cinema

Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2
  • Johnnie TO
  • Hong Kong,China
  • 2014
  • 113min

This film is the latest romantic melodrama from Hong Kong’s master of cinema, Johnnie To, and a sequel to his 2011 film of the same name. The film starts with the heroine of the pr...

International Premiere

Opening Film & Closing Film

Paradise in Service
  • Doze Chen-Zer NIU
  • Taiwan
  • 2014
  • 133min

A film directed by Doze Chen-Zer Niu ruminating on Taiwan during the 1960s and ’70s. In 1969, Kinmen, new recruit Pao is transferred to the Sea Dragon, the Amphibious Reconnaissanc...

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