Special Programs in Focus

• Japan
• 2012
• 119min

Wakamatsu Koji, the most heretical and disputable film director in Japanese cinema, insists that he has made films in order to understand what is not understandable occurring in Japan. His filmography includes (2008), based on th...

Wide Angle

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 21min

Precious moments create precious lives. A red-light district is about to be eliminated because of a recently enacted law, but before that a high school girl, clearly out of her element, wanders into the area. Her unflinching study...

Midnight Passion

• Indonesia
• 2012
• 87min

A man is on a holiday in the woods with his wife and two kids, but they are surprised by the arrival of an uninvited guest. Before he understands what’s going on, he finds himself separated from his family. Now, he has to race wit...

Open Cinema

• Poland
• 2012
• 94min

An old man in his 70s finds a letter after his wife left him. Shocked by what was written inside, the man gets hospitalized. The day after his hospitalization his son, a famous pianist, and a teenage boy visit him. They play piano...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2012
• 65min

Negahdar Jamali has been making western films in Iran for 35 years. Not screened in normal theaters, and with few?or no?sponsors let alone producers, his films are made and watched by and with people in his neighborhood. This enga...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 137min

This movie is a huge-scale, transnational human war drama revolving around two young men from Korea and Japan in rivalry, set in the Second World War and shortly before the war. Before the war they were just marathon rivals. After...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China,France
• 2012
• 110min

Despite the Chinese government’s control, independent film director Lou Ye continues to produce unconventional, provocative films. The modern Chinese characters he chose for his film are willing to do anything and everything to h...

World Cinema

• Kenya,Germany
• 2012
• 96min

A teenage boy travels from inland Kenya to Nairobi in order to realize his dream of becoming an actor. However, he immediately experiences for himself why Nairobi is nicknamed "Nairobbery". While he acclimatises to this new world ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 133min

This is the “Crime thriller of 2012” involving organized crime world set in the 1980’s in the port city of Busan. It’s actually the director’s father’s generation and so the “retro” perspective leads one to consider this film a ki...

Gala Presentation

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 110min

Director Chung Ji-Young recently directed another film concerned to the matter of justice, followed by (2011). The film is based on the memoir written by the late Kim Geuntae, a famous politician in Korea and former Minister of H...