A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong,China
• 2013
• 116min

One-armed Swordsman is the monumental work and unprecedented box office hit that heralded the era of Chang Cheh. It is also a masterpiece and an exemplar of the Chang Cheh style. Chang rendered a tragic hero through a unique chara...

Wide Angle

• Iran,Korea,South
• 2013
• 52min

Former festival director Kim Dong-ho always mentioned that he wanted to make a film when he left his chair. After he stepped down from his festival director position that he was dedicated to for fifteen years, he started to make h...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 88min

Sunhi arrives at school to pick up a recommendation letter to study abroad. She doesn’t like the letter, and runs into an ex-boyfriend who wants to get back together. When she returns to school to ask for a better recommendation, ...

World Cinema

• Austria,France,Germany
• 2013
• 91min

Paradise: Hope, the Ulrich Seidl’s third film in the Paradise trilogy, tells the story of the 13-year-old Melanie. While her mother travels to Keyna, Melanie spends her holiday in the Austrian countryside at a strict diet camp for...

• Berlin Film Festival (In Competition)

New Currents

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 97min

Forbidden love doesn’t include only immoral intimacy. If a woman in her forties loves a 17-year old male that could also be forbidden. Forty-something, screenwriter Gaeul, lives with a 17-year old. Her family cannot understand any...

Wide Angle

• Malaysia
• 2013
• 76min

The film begins with the dim lights of an old theater closed long ago. An inspiration to Tsai Mingliang’s Goodbye, Dragon Inn, this theater is possibly where the director’s world of film began. Symbolic of the Taiwanese new wave, ...

Midnight Passion

• Thailand
• 2013
• 114min

A Thai myth revives with contemporary sense of humor and horror romance. The film has broken box office record in Thailand. Mak is called for duty in a battle leaving his pregnant wife at home. After the war, he comes back home wi...

Wide Angle

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 11min

Hanging around snapping photos of a girl next door, Junho finally gets up the nerve to say hello to her. Though Junho had no film in his camera, it doesn’t stop the pair from a lovely date. (NAM Dong-chul)

Special Programs in Focus

• Uzbekistan
• 2013
• 43min

In this comedy, Mahmud gives a ticket to a football match to his neighbor Normat. It just so happens that at the stadium that day is an organized lottery: the owner of this ticket is the winner of new automobile. Normat is absolut...

Special Programs in Focus

• Tajikistan
• 2013
• 83min

Why the “presence?” Set during Tajikistan’s civil war from 1993 to 1997, the film features no military action, only occasional bursts of automatic rifle fire and men in uniform emerging from somewhere with guns, to remind us that ...