New Currents

• Sung-hyun KIM
• Korea,South
• 2012
• 85min

Asserting the idea that minor conflicts can lead to death, is a bold drama of brothers and retaliation. The younger deadbeat squanders the money he manages to bor...

World Cinema

• Antonio MENDEZ ESPARZA
• Spain,United States,Mexico
• 2012
• 110min

After working in the US for many years, Pedro returns to Guerrero, Chile, his hometown. It is somewhat awkward to be with his wife and daughters after so many years of separation a...

• 칸영화제 비평가주간 대상

Korean Cinema Today

• Ji-tae YOO
• Korea,South
• 2012
• 123min

Actor YOO Ji-Tae’s directorial debut feature film is one part melodrama, one part comingof-age story about Soo-young, a miserable thirtysomething man and Mai-Ratima, a 22-year-old ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Taegon KIM
• Korea,South
• 2012
• 83min

Two high school friends?one a college freshmen, the other a repeater?pay a visit to a third friend doing his military service. But they have an ulterior motive, which is to deliver...

Korean Cinema Today

• Muel O
• Korea,South
• 2012
• 108min

A local film worthy of notice, the monochrome is the fourth film by Jeju director O Muel. It is based on the true story of the townsfolk that took sanctuary in a cave duri...

Open Cinema

• Keishi OTOMO
• Japan
• 2012
• 134min

Based on the manga 『Rurouni Kenshin』. During the turmoil of Edo period’s final years when Meiji Restoration took place, the legendary assassin Kenshin, also known as ‘Battousai,’ f...

Gala Presentation

• Ji-young CHUNG
• Korea,South
• 2012
• 110min

Director Chung Ji-Young recently directed another film concerned to the matter of justice, followed by (2011). The film is based on the memoir written by the late Kim Geu...

Korean Cinema Today

• Kyung-taek KWAK
• Korea,South
• 2012
• 97min

Set in the late 1980s, this film is based on the director’s own experiences in the army. Nakman who has been stationed as a public service worker must wear many different hats ? a ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Duck-hee LEE
• Korea,South
• 2012
• 111min

is a ‘post-Failan′ created by rookie director Lee Duck-hee, the assistant director of Failan by Song Hae-seong. It is a moving human drama about the life, desire, frus...

Korean Cinema Today

• Kyu-hwan JEON
• Korea,South
• 2012
• 107min

is a controversial drama that confirms Jeon Kyu-hwan’s adept and unrivaled film language established in The Town Trilogy and . The subtitle,

• 베니스영화제 베니스데이즈