Korean Cinema Today
The Spy Gone NorthThe Spy Gone North is based on a true story about a South Korean spy codenamed Black Venus. In 1993, the National Security Agency (NSA) obtains North Korea’s nuclear development plans and sends an operative for confirmation. Park ...
Wide Angle
The StainFah, a middle-aged monk lives peacefully on the religious pathway. Until one day, Fah meets Sak, a young man who has dark secrets. When Fah is asked to do an ordination for Sak. Fah is finally forced to face his trauma and confron...
Wide Angle
The State Against Mandela And The OthersThe film begins with a historical trial in 1963. Nelson Mandela and his colleagues were sentenced to life imprisonment in a nine-month trial made famous by Mandela’s self-defense speech. Instead of showing images from this time pe...
Wide Angle
The StrangersIn this film beginning with the line, "I have a nightmare whenever fall comes," the director visits her hometown Chuncheon after four years. Her nightmare, which seemed to end when she left Chuncheon, has been repeated every year ...
A Window on Asian Cinema
The Third WifeIn 19th century Vietnam, 14-year-old girl May is traveling on a flowery decorated boat through a beautiful valley. She is meant to become the third wife of a much older landlord. Red lanterns light up, and their first night unfold...
Flash Forward
The TobacconistFranz, a 17-year-old boy from rural Austria, comes to Vienna to get a job in a cigarette shop. Although tyranny under the Nazi occupation and hatred towards Jews has worsened oppression and insecurity, the tobacco store remains a ...
Wide Angle
The TowerEleven-year-old Warda is the fourth generation of Palestinian refugee living in a building in Lebanon with her family and relatives. Her great-grandfather, upon learning that he does not have much longer to live, one day gives War...
Wide Angle
The TrialSergei Loznitsa, who effortlessly crosses drama and documentary films, does so again in his new film, The Trial, reproducing an archived video of the infamous Moscow Trials of the 1930s. The film, which reconstructs the situations...
World Cinema
The Trouble with YouThe Trouble With You follows the conventional screwball comedy genre structure of conflict and reconciliation, where the main characters engage in a farcical commotion. Santi is hailed as a hero when he dies during an investigatio...
World Cinema
The Wild Pear TreeSinan, who majored in literature in college, gets a job as a teacher and returns home to help the family. But what he really wants is to publish his first novel. Although he tries to raise money for publishing, his family is alway...