New Currents

• Mehdi PARIZAD
• Iran,Iran
• 2013
• 74min

A short meeting between a TV commercial film director and a lonely old man. Their meeting was fleeting, but the old man’s lifelong loneliness leaves a strong impression on the director. TV Commercial film director, Farhad goes in ...

Midnight Passion

• Michael S. OJEDA
• United States
• 2013
• 95min

While travelling across country, Zoe, a lovely deaf mute woman, stumbles on a horrific crime ? a gang of rednecks slaughtering two Native American boys. Zoe’s brave attempt to save one of the boys seals her fate. She is captured, ...

Wide Angle

• Lu ZHANG
• Korea,South
• 2013
• 95min

The film begins with stories about dreams. East Timor native Augustino remembers seeing his sick mother back home in his dream. Tarsila from Sri Lanka wakes up from dreaming about giving a tour of her homeland to Koreans. Phillip ...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 90min

Swordsman Iljimae travels to Japan in search of the CheonRyongGeom, a national treasure looted by the Japanese invader Kuroda. But two others are hunting Kuroda besides Iljimae: one-armed warrior Macheol, who lost his left arm to ...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 112min

Seopeonje unfolds in aback and fourth pattern, toggling between the past and present as we follow Dongho, an herbal medicine shop employee, on a visit to Sorijae pass. Years before a wandering singer called Yubong traveled around ...

Wide Angle

• Antoneta KASTRATI
• United States,Kosovo
• 2013
• 16min

A taxi driver lives alone with his young daughter. A girl appears in front of his house looking lost. While talking with the girl, the man realizes his daughter has vanished and he starts to suspect the girl of being the cause. A ...

World Cinema

• Destin CRETTON
• United States
• 2013
• 96min

Grace is a 20-something supervisor at Short Term 12, a foster-care facility for at-risk teenagers. She is passionate about her work and takes great care of the kids, though she struggles with her own troubled past. When Jayden, a ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Yubin LEE
• Korea,South
• 2013
• 107min

Eunju and her half-brother Minjae lose their parents in an accident. When his sister suddenly disappears with the inheritance of 100 million won, Minjae drives a long way to the southern region to find her, without knowing that te...

Open Cinema

• Xing FEI
• China
• 2013
• 121min

This is a cross between a murder mystery, and at the same time a powerful drama with conflict between strong characters in the legal world. Evidence and truth, existence of the real criminal and questionable witnesses appear in tu...

Special Programs in Focus

• Marat SARULU
• Kyrgyzstan
• 2013
• 62min

A modern parable about three brothers whose life separated. Of their happy childhood and adolescence together, only a black-and-white photograph remains. The rebellious youngest brother is now seeking the meaning of a dream wherei...