Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2014
• 100min

Here we meet a teenaged Ahn Sung-ki. During the Korean War in 1951, Sang-han and Dong-in smuggle 20 million won to Busan. Dong-in disappears during the job, and five years pass. In that time Sang-han gains success in the furniture...

World Cinema

• Italy,Germany,Switzerland
• 2014
• 111min

Twelve-year old Gelsomina is the oldest of four girls living on a bee farm with their father. Their life is isolated from the outside world. Their father ensures their household operates under special rules created in order for hi...

• Grand Prix at Cannes Film Festival

Midnight Passion

• Japan
• 2014
• 118min

Kanako, a beautiful girl and one of the best students at school, goes missing with all the belongings left behind in her room. Her father Akikazu is now asked by his ex-wife to look for their daughter. He starts a desperate search...

Open Cinema

• Austria,Switzerland
• 2014
• 87min

In Vienna, 1932, Viktor, an illustrator, draws the dreams of Professor Freud’s patients. Viktor’s girlfriend Lucy happens to look like the first woman with whom Count Geza von Kozsnom fell in love. Meanwhile, the Count’s wife come...

World Cinema

• Croatia,France,Serbia,Macedonia
• 2014
• 78min

Ivo and Maja, a married couple, live a calm and monotonous life in the suburbs of Zagreb. One day, their only son, Tomica, is brutally beaten by a gang of his teenagers peers. Instantly realizing the false concept of safety, Ivo a...

• Venice Film Festival (Orizzonti)

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2014
• 117min

Working at a supermarket, a single mother lives with her two daughters. Their ordinary life is crushed when the younger girl kills herself. The surviving sister, Man-ji, meets with her dead sister’s friends to find out why, and th...

World Cinema

• France,Mauritania
• 2014
• 96min

Timbuktu, Mali, is under the command of Islamic fundamentalists. Away from the residents living under oppression in the new rule, Kidane and his family live in a nearby desert with his wife and daughter, and shepherd Issan. One da...

• Cannes Film Festival (In Competition)

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,Japan
• 2014
• 99min

Based on Kang Full’s webtoon of the same title, this film unravels the mystery behind a series of suicides at a high school in Seoul. Park Ja-gi, a teacher at this school whose mother is a shaman, keeps rejecting mysticism, but he...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2014
• 116min

Representing films labeled Asian Extreme, Japanese director Sono Sion’s new film is based on the popular manga series Tokyo Tribe 2 by Inoue Santa. Set in a futuristic, alternate Tokyo, the film is about the brutal and violent ter...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2014
• 98min

Olfat lost her husband young and had to support her elderly mother and take care of two children by herself. In a peaceful village, the two kids grow up knowing joy, and they mean everything to her. On the day the Iran-Iraq War br...