Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 112min

Involved in a scandalous accident, high school girl Han Gong-ju is forced to change schools. Her parents cannot look after her, so she stays at the home of her new teacher’s mother. Her new friend Eunhee finds that Gong-ju is a go...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kazakhstan,Germany,France
• 2013
• 115min

Though it has the form of a coming of age film, the realities within Harmony Lessons are quite cruel. This first feature film by Emir Baigazin, a 2007 BIFF AFA fellow, is more of a psychodrama or social chastisement than a typical...

• 2013 Berlin Film Festival- AWARD FOR AN OUTSTANDING ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTION

Flash Forward

• UK
• 2013
• 96min

As desperation and fear increase gradually in a crime-ridden resident area of northern England, a man gets caught up in saving his local community. In early 1974, electricity shutdowns and the miners’ strike shook all of England. ...

World Cinema

• Mexico,France,Germany,Netherlands
• 2013
• 105min

In Mexico with the war on drugs at its peak, 12-year-old Estela and her brother Heli are soon drawn into the drug trade because of her 17-year-old soldier boyfriend. In the end, the two are kidnapped by a gang organization and the...

• Cannes Film Festival - Best Director

Wide Angle

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 85min

This film is about seeking a hope of multicultural family kids with a broken heart. A violist Yongjae O’Neill who was born to a disable Korean mother and raised in America meets kids who were born to multicultural parents in Korea...

Flash Forward

• Sweden,Iceland
• 2013
• 90min

Lu leaves for a remote rural village to live with grandmother after she hears her grandfather has passed away. Being smart but unskilled in human relations, she discovers various aspects of life there that she didn’t know existed ...

• BUSAN Bank Award Candidate

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2013
• 98min

Kenji, doing building repair work, lives alone in an old house, which will soon be demolished to be redeveloped into an apartment block. His father runs a mountain cabin by himself, and his younger sister travels all around the wo...

World Cinema

• Czech Republic,Slovenia
• 2013
• 100min

An uninvited, unknown guest turns up at Tereza’s wedding. With his appearance, the ‘worse’ time in the bride’s “for better, for worse” marriage vows seems set to begin. Secrets emerge from the past and the wedding party gradually ...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2013
• 105min

Conveying the passion of Japanese ultimate fighters and their lives, this film follows these high-octane wrestlers as they are about to participate in a Pancrase Tournament in March, 2013, and examines their dreams and hopes. In o...

Wide Angle

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 14min

An animation depicting the fate of a bullet. While waiting for his moment of blastoff, the new recruit bullet Tang falls in love with his successor, Pyeonghwa. Just before he has a chance to confess his love, the gun is fired and ...