Special Programs in Focus

• Ireland,Japan,Netherlands,Luxembourg
• 2013
• 94min

Based on the Japanese novel In Love with the Dead, from acclaimed author Kei Oishi (Apartment 1303, The Last Supper), the film centres on an isolated and death-fixated young man who tries to make sense of the world, and his existe...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand
• 2013
• 127min

Awarded the BIFF 2012 New Currents prize for 36 which consisted of 36 shots, Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit once again shows familiar story in unfamiliar way. With graduation only a few months away, high school senior Mary goes thro...

Open Cinema

• France,Belgium
• 2013
• 85min

Raised under a strict mother, Guillaume is unlike his two brothers… in a very feminine way. His father is disapproving of his main specialty ? dressing up as a girl and acting like his mother. He is sent to a boarding school in En...

• Cannes Film Festival Directors' Fortnight - Art Cinema Award

Flash Forward

• Iceland,Norway
• 2013
• 97min

After Hera witnesses her brother’s absurdly crazy death in the fields, she begins to hate god who took him from her, and finds solace in her brother’s beloved heavy metal music. She announces that she will leave town to become a r...

Special Programs in Focus

• Ireland
• 2013
• 132min

Neil Jordan’s hugely ambitious account of the rise of arguably the central figure in Ireland’s painful, bloody fight for independence. A subject which was always going to be controversial, but at heart it plays out on a historic s...

• 53rd Venice Film Festival - Golden Lion Award

Wide Angle

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 39min

When a schoolgirl gives birth, abandons her infant and then collapses on the street, it’s Sooyoung to the rescue. But larger issues come into play at the hospital, when the baby’s and the girl’s fathers show up and start debating ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Tajikistan
• 2013
• 90min

Is a city like a ruthless jungle where happy middle class man can get killed without any good reasons? Or is it more like a merciful nest where a patient with terminal condition can get transplantation to be given a new life? Romi...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 108min

Former policeman Song Kiyeol, now an old, sick tramp, is detained at a rehabilitation camp for the homeless, where he encounters Jjakko, a one-time communist partisan. Jjakko was also an object of pursuit during Kiyeol’s entire po...

Flash Forward

• France
• 2013
• 95min

Brothers Boris and Dimitri share a medical practice in Paris, and are equally devoted to their patients and to each other. When they both fall in love with Judith, the single mother of one of their diabetic patients, it throws the...

• BUSAN Bank Award Candidate

Flash Forward

• Greece
• 2013
• 98min

In a story about a distorted family that reflects the current crisis in Greece, Angeliki jumps to her death from her balcony on her 11th birthday. While the police and Social Services try to discover the reason for this apparent s...

• Venice Film Festival Silver Lion Award, Venice Film Festival Volpi Cup (Best Actor)