A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2013
• 156min

A young teacher named Oishi is appointed to a branch school on a remote island. The village elders are scandalized when they see her riding a bicycle to the school dressed in Western-style clothes,but the children adore her. Ms. O...

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2013
• 104min

Daniel, an undercover agent for the German intelligence services, kills two neo-Nazis in a doomed operation against right-wing terrorists. After telling his supervisor that he wants to quit, he is told to lay low for a while in Ne...

Gala Presentation

• Japan
• 2013
• 135min

The Tokugawa shogunate has just collapsed and the Meiji Era is dawning in Japan, and former samurai Jubei is lying low and living as a father of two and a farmer in a secluded island in Hokkaido. One day, former friend Baba comes ...

Opening Film & Closing Film

• Bhutan
• 2013
• 96min

This third feature by director and Bhutan priest Khyentse Norbu is based on Sunil Gangopadhyay’s short story Rakta Aar Kanna. Norbu wrote the screenplay and brought together an international crew to finish the project. The film re...

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2013
• 95min

Victoria just got out on parole, tasting freedom for the first time in years. Florence has done her time, and reconnects with her lover from prison. They hole up in a sugar shack out in the woods, relearning life on the outside. G...

• Berlin Film Festival - Alfred Bauer Prize

Wide Angle

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 9min

After moving out of a basement apartment, Kyunghee returns later to find an item she left behind. Unable to locate it, the landlord’s son finally hands her a package. (NAM Dong-chul)

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 93min

Unmarried Soo-ock leaves Seoul to teach at an elementary school in a remote village. She gradually realizes that a local vagabond, Kkaechol, is engaging in all manner of sexual acts with the village’s women?something the men in th...

World Cinema

• Poland
• 2013
• 127min

In Gda?sk in 1981, an influential Italian reporter pays a visit to Lech Wał?sa, the Polish Solidarity movement leader, for an interview . Through the interview the film relates the struggles and life of the contemporary Polish pol...

• Venice Film Festival (Out of Competition)

Wide Angle

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 17min

With her mother diagnosed with cancer, Minhee plans a trip to Australia for them both. Instead of getting a passport photo, the mother is busy home shopping. Minhee finally gets mad at her mother for postponing possibly their last...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia
• 2013
• 104min

What They Don’t Talk about When They Talk about Love is the second full feature film by Mouly Surya, who visited BIFF in 2008 with her debut film, Fiksi. This new film is a story about love and growing up in a school for blind gir...