Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 101min

As a follow-up to the pioneering animation The King of Pigs (2011), Yeon Sangho’s sophomore effort revolves around a town’s new church that is seducing worshippers with promises of miracles. When a violent man loses his family to ...

Wide Angle

• Australia
• 2013
• 15min

Men in a refugee camp work at a nearby factory to make a living. Then one day a fence is built around the camp. The men secretly hop over the fence to go to work every day, but the fence keeps getting higher and higher. The film s...

World Cinema

• United States
• 2013
• 124min

The story begins as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg team up to become underground watchdogs of the privileged and powerful. On a shoestring, they create a platform that allows whistleblower...

• Toronto Film Festival (Opening Film)

Special Programs in Focus

• Ireland
• 2013
• 102min

John Boorman's career-long fascination with ambivalent or ambiguous protagonists reaches an apogee in the veritable antihero of The General, a character closely modelled on real-life Dublin gangster Martin Cahill, who in the 1980s...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 107min

In the 1930s, under Japanese occupation, Kim Doo-han wins a fight against a Japanese student while working at a theater in Jongno. He becomes a local hero. As Korean gang power grows in the Jongno business area, Hayashi the Japane...

Wide Angle

• Mongolia
• 2013
• 14min

In a world where civilization has disappeared, a man points a gun at a young guy with a barrel of oil. While the young guy proposes peace, the man with the gun cannot rid himself of greed. Where the two arrive at the barter place,...

Wide Angle

• Malaysia,Singapore
• 2013
• 13min

In a plantation harvesting tropical fruit, laborers work like prisoners. Missing his wife, Tonton tries to escape but is captured. Unable to stand the violent foreman, Tonton and his friend finally commit murder and escape. The fi...

Flash Forward

• Turkey
• 2013
• 95min

Sisters Lale and Yasemin are on vacation in Turkey’s coast of the Aegean Sea. They are trying to reacquaint with each other after a long separate silence. But their pleasant holiday turns into a potential explosive when a certain ...

• BUSAN Bank Award Candidate

New Currents

• Thailand
• 2013
• 90min

After Gee, her Burmese housekeeper dies, 8-year-old Hom suddenly forgets her native Thai language and starts to speak in Burmese. Hom’s mother, Da, believes that Gee’s spirit has not left Hom, and decides to head out to Ranong to ...

Midnight Passion

• Denmark
• 2013
• 100min

Following a shootout that left his two partners respectively dead and paralyzed, chief detective Carl Mørck is assigned to the newly established Department Q, a department for old, terminated cases. The department consists only of...