World Cinema
The Man Who Killed Don QuixoteToby, a cynical advertising director, finds himself trapped in the outrageous delusions of an old Spanish shoemaker who believes himself to be Don Quixote. During the course of their comic and increasingly surreal adventures, Toby...
Flash Forward
The Man who Surprised EveryoneA powerful opening sequence draws one in with warm tones surrounding a married couple in an embrace. In a small Siberian village, honest and faithful family man Egor is a well-respected figure among his neighbors. One day, he find...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
The Man with Three CoffinsThe Man with Three Coffins (1987) is Lee Jang-ho’s masterpiece work of his subsequent period, based on Lee Je-ha’s novel with the same title. The main character travels with his wife’s ashes who died 3 years earlier. He meets a si...
Wide Angle
The Moon Is Bright TonightA migrant worker’s body arrives in a remote Nepali village. His wife, now a widow, wants to start a new life with the money from his life insurance, but her father-in-law and village elders stop her, claiming the money belongs to ...
Wide Angle
The Narrow GateA twenty-year-old girl finds a place to stay at an old woman’s house at a cheap price. The old woman, living alone, seems to act strange and does not allow her to open a small door at the back of a kitchen.
Wide Angle
The Open DoorThis short film is made up of four chapters: lotus/purity, pig/ignorance, bird/desire, and snake/anger. Each chapter also represents the moments when Pema is born, grows up, becomes a mother, and a grandmother. And the real hero o...
BUSAN Classic
The Other Side of the WindIn 1970, legendary director Orson Welles began filming what would ultimately be his final cinematic opus with a cast of Hollywood luminaries including John Huston, Peter Bogdanovich, Susan Strasberg and Welles’s partner during hi...
Midnight Passion
The PreyUndercover Chinese cop Xin is on a secret international mission when a surprise raid puts him in a remote jungle prison that plays by its own rules. Here, the visitors are wealthy thrill seekers, the guards are hostile puppet mast...
Midnight Passion
The Purity of VengeanceTwo workmen make an alarming discovery in an older Copenhagen apartment: hidden behind a false wall are three mummified corpses, sitting around a dining table with one empty seat. The case quickly ends up on the desk of Detective ...
New Currents
The Red PhallusSangai, a teenage girl living with her father in a village of inland Bhutan, is not happy with her father, who makes wooden phalluses, believed to have mysterious power, and playing a festival clown with a red mask at a local fest...