Special Programs in Focus

• Afghanistan
• 2012
• 148min

A tragic love story of Rabia Balkhie who was a royal princess and a legendary poet. Rabia falls in love with an escorting warrior who was a slave. Not only their love story but also the process of filmmaking is touching. Attracted...

World Cinema

• Italy,France
• 2012
• 115min

Luciano, a Napoli seafood vendor, and his wife supplement their income by pulling minor scams on others. He is a kind husband and father and always enjoys entertaining his customers and relatives. Encouraged by his family, he deci...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 100min

Restored with the computer graphic technology, describes the early history of Korean air force. The Stunning Cinematography was awarded in the 1965 Grand Bell Awards and Blue Dragon Film Awards. Shin Young-kyun was awarded with t...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 100min

Red Scarf was such a popular hit that its theme song reminds many people of the film even to this day, thanks to the Korean industry’s first ever attempt at aerial cinematography, mind-blowing air battle scenes and an array of sta...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2012
• 110min

Ogigami Naoko has always told stories about people locked in their own isolated worlds and is another such film. After her grandmother passes away, Sayoko’s most important duty is renting her cat out to people who suffer from lon...

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2012
• 86min

This is a story about a father, Lothar who desperately looks for his missing daughter, Martha. As Lothar keeps on finding one clue to another, he learns out that many other kids have disappeared as well. By the help of a boy, Lou ...

Gala Presentation

• Iraq,Turkey
• 2012
• 93min

is the latest film of the director Bahman Ghobadi who had filmed only on Kurds until he left Iran, because no more filming is possible there and nested in Turkey to make it. The film was based on a real story of the Kurd poet Sade...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 124min

After returning to his war-torn hometown, disabled veteran Yongi begins digging tunnels through the village mountain and irrigating its wastelands. Only after Park Chung-hee’s military regime provides support does Yongi finally su...

Open Cinema

• Japan
• 2012
• 134min

Based on the manga 『Rurouni Kenshin』. During the turmoil of Edo period’s final years when Meiji Restoration took place, the legendary assassin Kenshin, also known as ‘Battousai,’ fades behind the rising of Japanese new era after t...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2012
• 15min

Saba is caring for older sister’s children after her unexpected death. She is attracted to a school teacher but cannot open her mind to him for children’s sake. Saba’s heart is heavy with the burden of tradition she might have to ...