Korean Cinema Today

• Je-kyu KANG
• Korea,South
• 2012
• 137min

This movie is a huge-scale, transnational human war drama revolving around two young men from Korea and Japan in rivalry, set in the Second World War and shortly before the war. Be...

Wide Angle

• Seok-pil KANG
• Korea,South
• 2012
• 105min

There is a village in the center of the city. It’s not a place one rests in between commutes. It’s a place where one can greet everyone in the area while on a casual bike ride. It ...

Open Cinema

• Sung-hee JO
• Korea,South
• 2012
• 126min

This is a touching love story between a feral boy abandoned by the world and a girl who used to be isolated but opens her heart thanks to the boy. It is a also a story of a family ...

Open Cinema

• Yong-han KIM
• Korea,South
• 2012
• 90min

A high-school girl is raped by three high-school boys and killed herself. Her mother then seeks revenge for the murder of her daughter. This film has been known as a female version...

Wide Angle

• Chia Yun CHANG
• Taiwan
• 2012
• 25min

A busy daughter visits her hometown for the anniversary of her father’s death. She attends his grave and checks every corner of the house for her mother with aching knee. The mothe...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Brillante MENDOZA
• Philippines
• 2012
• 106min

Bangas-An and his wife Shaleha are a childless Muslim couple struggling to make ends meet in a region fraught with violence and poverty. They are also a Bajau couple, widely consid...

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Korean Cinema Today

• Byung-hun MIN
• Korea,South
• 2012
• 99min

This is a drama about a family consisting of three members who have many stories to tell and it is the first of the director′s ′Life Triology′ as well. Through this family story th...

Korean Cinema Today

• ROY LEE
• Korea,South
• 2012
• 119min

Is Melo a melodrama or the chronicle of a monster? If it’s a melodrama then it is a sensuous and emotional one that illustrates the tensions and conflicts between a momentary and a...

Wide Angle

• Won-tae SEO
• Korea,South
• 2012
• 56min

Asian cinema expert, prominent film critic and programmer Tony Rayns is well known to us for his special ties with Korean cinema. Since he came to Korea for the first time in 1988,...

Flash Forward

• Vsevolod BENIGSEN
• Russia
• 2012
• 100min

This series of four short films proves the director’s competence as a storyteller. Vsevolod Benigsen is a best-selling Russian novelist. seems like a simple co...