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World Premiere

Opening Film & Closing Film

Cold War
  • Longman LEUNG,Sunny LUK
  • Hong Kong,China
  • 2012
  • 102min

Here is a mole in the police waging a war on crime, tipping off a criminal gang. Then, why the mole communicates secretly with the gang? What is their purpose? talks abo...

World Premiere

Korean Cinema Today

The Russian Novel
  • Younshick SHIN
  • Korea,South
  • 2012
  • 140min

The second installment of Shin Yeonsik’s middle-aged romance trilogy unfolds like a tragic Russian novel, in a visual monochrome with understated audio. A writer, who had lapsed in...

World Premiere

World Cinema

The Commander and the Stork
  • Silvio SOLDINI
  • Italy,Switzerland
  • 2012
  • 108min

opens with the inner monologue of a statue of the great general Garibaldi as he observes the comings and goings of the people beneath him, particularl...

World Premiere

Flash Forward

All Musicians Are Bastards
  • Heleri SAARIK
  • Estonia
  • 2012
  • 87min

This is the first feature film by a famous Estonian music video director, Heleri Saarik. Her music videos and this film share the same world view. What is different between the two...

International Premiere

World Cinema

A Special Day
  • Francesca COMENCINI
  • Italy
  • 2012
  • 90min

Gina, a high-school girl living in the suburb of Rome dreams of becoming an actress. One day, her mother who cares for and supports her arranges a meeting with an influential membe...

  • 베니스영화제 경쟁부문
International Premiere

Flash Forward

Steel
  • Stefano MORDINI
  • Italy
  • 2012
  • 95min

Anna is in the third year of middle school and living with her mother and elder brother. In a desolate steel factory city, she hangs out with her best friend Francesca. Her elder b...

  • 베니스영화제 베니스데이즈
Asian Premiere

Special Programs in Focus

Comrade Kim Goes Flying
  • Gwang-hun KIM,Nicholas BONNER,Anja DAELEMANS
  • Belgium,UK,Korea,North
  • 2012
  • 81min

Kim Young-mi is a miner dreaming of becoming an acrobat with the Pyeongyang Circus Troupe. Jang Pil, a handsome and proud aerialist is looking for a new partner after his current p...

World Premiere

New Currents

Kayan
  • Maryam NAJAFI
  • Lebanon,Canada
  • 2012
  • 86min

Running a Lebanese restaurant called ‘Kayan,’ a divorcee Hanin always spends a busy hard day. She takes care of two daughters, barely pays the rent, and worries about money problem...

World Premiere

Open Cinema

The Thieves
  • Dong-hoon CHOI
  • Korea,South
  • 2012
  • 135min

This is the sixth Korean film to join the club of "10 million moviegoers." The plot is woven around ten thieves who flock together to steal a rare diamond called the "Tears of the ...

World Premiere

Korean Cinema Today

Behind the Camera
  • J-Yong E
  • Korea,South
  • 2012
  • 85min

Another daring docu-drama from the director of . At the end of December 2011, the director has been offered to make a 10 minute PR short film for a new smart phone. He u...

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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