Special Programs in Focus
A Story of Mountainous RachaThis “culture film” directed by the first woman filmmaker of Georgia presents contrasting landscapes of the famous vacation spot surrounding the mountainous Racha region and the struggling life of its residents. When a power plant...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
A Student BoarderAn accordion player moves in to a boarding house three years after a fire and subsequent plastic surgery has remade him as Min-gu from In-suk. Hearing him play the same song over and over, his rich neighbor’s second wife, Hwang Ja...
Korean Cinema Today
AliveJungchul lives in the mountain village with his sister and the sister’s daughter. He is frustrated as his mentally challenged sister sometimes wanders around the street or severely hurts herself, and a trusted colleague stole all ...
World Cinema
AlleluiaMichel, a good-looking man, is a natural born womanizer and professional gigolo. Like many other women, Gloria falls in love with him. One day, seeing Michel cheating on her, Gloria becomes obsessed with following him everywhere h...
World Cinema
AloftA mother and her son ? they had to be separated for many years because of an event that occurred during the son’s youth. The mother is an artist with powers of healing. The boy grows up to become a falconer. A reporter comes looki...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Ant StoryMostofa Farooki has made films following characters who have to make alternative choices in conflicts between inner order and society in films such as Third Person Singular Number(A Window on Asian Cinema, BIFF 2009) and Televisio...
Wide Angle
As the Sun SetsAn old woman living alone eats her meal of rice and dried radish. She seems to have a family living far away but a phone call doesn’t connect. She, therefore, eats her meal alone again. (NAM Dong-chul)
Flash Forward
Atlantic.In a small fishing village in Morocco on the Atlantic Ocean lives a young fisherman by the name of Fettah. He befriends the many European windsurfers who visit this island every summer, and eventually becomes a windsurfer himself....
Flash Forward
AuroraSofia, a middle-aged professor, is overwhelmed with sorrow after hearing the news that the body of an infant was found in a landfill. As her sorrow grows, she asks the morgue and the police to help her prepare a proper burial for ...
Wide Angle
AwaitingYeonhee desperately waits for the day to see her lover Minwoo. When the day comes, she puts her heart into making lunch and gets on the bus to Pyeong-yang. (NAM Dong-chul)