Special Programs in Focus

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 96min

This is the film that put Park Chul-soo’s name on the map. The woman in Room 301 is obsessed with eating and the one in Room 302 refuses to eat. When her husband loses interest in her, the woman in 301 cooks her husband’s pet. The...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 108min

In this remarkable debut by Kim Jae-han, a director from South Gyeongsang Province, a Vietnamese woman, Thuy, is married to a Korean man and lives with her in-laws in rural Korea. One day, her gambling-addict husband is killed in ...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 108min

Ji-sook, a teahouse owner in a seaside town, hires three ladies: Miss Hong has money trouble because of her father’s medical expenses; the frivolous Miss Yang is a would-be actress; and the innocent Miss Yoon is not only her famil...

Wide Angle

• Singapore,Singapore
• 2013
• 70min

There are people who were expelled from their Singapore for challenging government policies. They were forced to live in exile for over thirty years for a matter of little import in retrospect. Some have thankfully left with their...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand
• 2013
• 117min

A film about an opportunity for forgiveness and reconciliation brought about by chance. Stories of love and hate between a daughter and a father, and two couples come together as one. Middleaged Orn held a grudge all her life agai...

New Currents

• Indonesia
• 2013
• 87min

A road movie about two young people’s journey into adulthood. Anjani just ran away from home, and Anggalih dreams of becoming a priest. They share a platonic love and leave on a journey together. As they travel, Anjani’s father se...

World Cinema

• Canada,France
• 2013
• 92min

In this psychological thriller of Stockholm Syndrome, mourning and latent violence permeate a story of lies and imposters. A young ad executive travels to the country for a funeral of his friend and discovers that no one there kno...

• Venice Film Festival (In Competition)

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 107min

Actor Park Joong-hoon makes his directorial debut with this tale of a talent manager, Taeshik, who is discovered as an actor himself and sees his success quickly surpass that of his prior client. But Taeshik is compelled to hold o...

New Currents

• Philippines
• 2013
• 92min

A female director’s first feature about the depressing lives of Philippine laborers in Israel. The characters include Janet, who does not know when she will be deported because her work visa expired; Janet’s daughter Jael, a rebel...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2013
• 96min

Nazanin is a medical student moved to Tehran having a problem getting into the school dormitory, so that she has to find a rent. Although she has to support herself by giving private lessons to kids to buy books, she has good fort...