Special Programs in Focus

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 109min

When his father dies, a film director returns to his rural hometown. There is quite a bit of commotion in the ensuing family reunion. While the funeral is held in the Confucian way, some relatives sing hymns, and his troublesome d...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 94min

Actor Ha Jung-woo’s first film as director is a superfluous comedy revolving around an airplane carrying a Korean movie star, a business tycoon, a paparazzi and a monk failing to land during a storm, causing a commotion between th...

Wide Angle

• Switzerland
• 2013
• 93min

What kind of life have our parents been sharing? The film starts when the director meets his father on the street one day. Father and son seem to be unfamiliar, meeting for the first time in a public space. The director films his ...

• Berlin Film Festival (Forum)

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2013
• 134min

Some college students travel to the Caspian region for a camping trip and to participate in a kiteflying event during the winter vacation. By the bleak lakeside, there’s a restaurant, where three men are working as cooks. The thre...

Open Cinema

• India
• 2013
• 107min

In this uniquely imaginative romantic fantasy, SS Rajamouli, who dreams of becoming India’s next Steven Spielberg, creates a humorous tale of love and revenge. Nani falls in love with Bindu, his neighbor. As their relationship gro...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 146min

In the mid-19th Century in Korea, the people of the Joseon Dynasty welcomed the new religion Donghak. After its founder was executed, Choi Si-hyeong succeeds as Donghak’s second-generation leader and successfully propagated the se...

World Cinema

• United States
• 2013
• 85min

Fruitvale Station follows the true story of Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who wakes up on the morning of December 31, 2008 and feels something in the air. Not sure what it is, he takes it as a sign to get a head sta...

• 선댄스영화제 심사위원 대상

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2013
• 104min

What if life were a game? And terrible things could be conjured up by declaring them “just for fun”? Ada could warm to this idea. The brainy but abrasive 15-year-old high-school outsider usually takes the sassy way out of life’s a...

Special Programs in Focus

• Ireland
• 2013
• 85min

Lenny Abrahamson and Mark O'Halloran, the team behind the award-winning 2004 comedy drama Adam and Paul, reunited for this stuning character study of middle aged, lonely garage attendant played by well known Irish comedian Pat Sho...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,South,Japan
• 2013
• 120min

Based on a Japanese sci-fi novel, Nishijima Hidetoshi stars in this film by Kim Sungsu, a joint Korea-Japan production. A man is confused after seeing his wife’s corpse at home and later also receiving a phone call from her?giving...