Korean Cinema Today
Over and Over AgainIn a word can be said to be the low budget of at Korean Cinema Today-Panorama. Gaettongi and Changsoo are like friends, even though one works in a factory and one lives in and out of prison to make money. They could be twins, an...
World Cinema
Paradise: LoveA group of middle-aged Austrian lades travels to Kenya. They encounter with local young men who were selling their items on streets and end up in prostitution. In fact, this has been what these Kenyan young men have wanted. They a...
Special Programs in Focus
Parajanov: The Last SpringParajanov’s last days recorded by his old friend and filmmaker Mikhail Vartanov. It is a valuable opportunity to see the footage from Parajanov’s unfinished last work , which combines the script written in the 60s with his childho...
Wide Angle
ParamedicoFollowing on from (BIFF 07), Benjamin Gilmour’s distinctive fiction film debut set in North Pakistan’s mountains, the Australian director has made a compelling documentary about his day job: being a paramedic. Using his Sydney am...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Peculiar Vacation and Other IllnessesOn the first day of work at a furniture store, Ning accompanies a driver on a sofa delivery. Little do they know it at the time, the delivery is the beginning of journey that deviates from their plan but takes them down a far more...
A Window on Asian Cinema
PENANCEwas originally a Japanese television drama series that aired in early 2012, and which Kurosawa Kiyoshi made four years after his previous film. The five episodes begin with the scene of a girl being murdered in a school gym. Each ...
Korean Cinema Today
Perfect NumberBased on the series by the popular Japanese novelist Keigo Higashino, this is a mystery drama that ′faithfully but freely′ adapts the 3rd part in the series, . The story revolves around 3 characters: a woman who unwittingly kille...
Special Programs in Focus
Petrel Hotel BLUEEx-con Yukio has come to a town surrounded by the mountains, the sea, lava flows and desert for vengeance against Yoji, the man who betrayed him. But instead Yukio becomes obsessed with Rika, a mysterious beauty. While his politic...
Korean Cinema Today
PietaThis widely talked-about film is becoming a worldwide sensation simply with the name ′KIM Ki-duk.′ It is the film which for the first time in Korean film history won the Golden Lion in Venice Film Festival, and is selected as a Ko...
World Cinema
Pilgrim Hilltells the story of Jimmy Walshe, a middle-aged bachelor farmer living in rural Ireland. Regarded by his neighbours as a harmless misfit, Jimmy has spent all his adult life as the caretaker of the crumbling family farm on the outsk...