A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2013
• 85min

This low-budget independent film conveying Director Sabu’s new perspective on zombies, is a philosophical contemplation on ‘human qualities’. A zombie named Sara is delivered to the Teramoto family. Working as a maid, Sara soon be...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 89min

When her husband cheats on her, a woman cuts off her son’s penis. The boy becomes a laughingstock among his friends and his father researches ways to restore his genitals. When the boy is arrested with his friends for rape, father...

Wide Angle

• India
• 2013
• 12min

Early one morning, a boy wakes up and walks toward the center of village. He needs to find stuff to get through his day. On the street polluted with dust and waste, a blunt person is doing his job. The worn out boy comes back home...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 109min

Kyung-mi and Gun-woo end up in a motorcycle crash during the course of an outdoor birthday party. Sungpil goes wild at his sister lying dead on the street and beats Gun-woo to a pulp. Years later, Hyun-myung, who was also at the s...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 100min

This film is based on a scenario by the famous TV drama writer Kim Soo-hyun. The daughter of a famous writer is kidnapped and sold off to a vice ring for sexual servitude. The writer bravely rescues her daughter, but when the youn...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 99min

Impulse disorder patient Icheon fantasizes about playing with his brother Yucheon in the hospital. But to those who don’t know about his fantasies, Icheon is just a strange boy. His mother struggles with paying the hospital bills,...

Flash Forward

• SlovakRepublic,Czech Republic
• 2013
• 90min

Prejudice lingers on the Slovak-Moravian border, where teen neo-Nazi Marek leads an alienated life with only his pet dog named Killer for friendship. While acting as a messenger between his father and absent mother he uncovers a t...

• Film Festival Rotterdam - Hivos Tiger Award

World Cinema

• France,Germany,Kurd
• 2013
• 95min

After the fall of Saddam Hussein, a Kurdish war hero and cop, Baran, and a schoolteacher, Govend, are sent to a lawless Turkish border town ruled by a corrupt tribal chief. They intend to clean up and set up a new order but are on...

• Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard)

World Cinema

• Australia
• 2013
• 118min

Though it keeps faith with his previous award-winning films Beneath Clouds, Toomerlah, Ivan Sen’s latest film Mystery Road nevertheless represents a quantum leap in his filmmaking. Embracing a range of references as diverse as Bon...

• Sydney Film Festival (Opening Film)

Gala Presentation

• Kazakhstan
• 2013
• 80min

This is the third feature film of Zhanna Issabayeva, independent filmmaker and an outsider of the Kazakhstan film world. Abandoned girls’ desperate lives are depicted in a frighteningly realistic way. Nagima, discharged from an or...