Korean Cinema Today
Architecture 101This romantic box office hit revolves around a love story between two students, its bitter disintegration and rekindling 15 years later. A great part of the film’s success must be attributed to the brilliant casting of Han Ga-in a...
World Cinema
ArgoBased on true events. The dramatic thriller chronicles the life-or-death covert operation to rescue six Americans, which unfolded behind the scenes of the Iran hostage crisis?he truth of which was unknown by the public for decade...
Wide Angle
Arjunis a grand scale animated adaption of part of the classic Indian epic「 Mahabharata」,focusing on its hero and eventual mythical icon Arjun. It is not quite a standard adventure tale, but more of a story that deals with the process ...
Special Programs in Focus
Ashik KeribA minstrel Ashik Kerib falls in love with a rich merchant’s daughter. He goes on a journey to marry her, promising to return in 1000 days after traveling to the end of the world. She waits with poison in one hand and a knife in th...
Wide Angle
Aurora, My AuroraIn a city as dreamscape, a cabbie that long gave up his hopes and dreams lives vicariously through his fares while a girl who clings to hers wanders the streets anonymously. The longing voice of a man comforts the nights of Aurora...
Korean Cinema Today
AzoomaIn this feminine version of the Hollywood thriller , an ordinary mother plays the protagonist to enhance our sympathy and rage while raising questions of ethics and societal responsibility. The film covers exactly the same subject...
Gala Presentation
B·E·D“Life starts in bed, finishes in bed.” is a drama of human relationship, and a new sexual report as well. Director Park Chul-soo, in his age of mid 60’s, searches for universal sexual imagination, deviation and desire which are c...
Special Programs in Focus
Bad LuckFor a brief moment before his tragic death in 1961, Andrzej Munk was the yin to Andrzej Wajda’s yang in Polish cinema. is exactly the opposite of Wajda‘s romantic and poetic approach to Polish history. Munk presented World War II...
World Cinema
Barbarais without doubt a masterpiece of Christian Petzold. His works share a distinctive style that the characters communicate their emotions through facial expressions and eye movement rather than dialogues. Barbara also demonstrates t...
Open Cinema
Barfi!is a heartwarming romantic drama directed by Anurag Basu. In Darjeeling, the scenic town in India, a young man of prank, called Barfi, was beloved by everyone even though he was not able to listen or speak. Barfi kept bitter and s...