Korean Cinema Today
The Weightis a controversial drama that confirms Jeon Kyu-hwan’s adept and unrivaled film language established in The Town Trilogy and . The subtitle, , is a direct indication of the nature of this film. Cho Jae-hyun’s Mr. Jung is a hunchba...
Korean Cinema Today
The Winter of the Year was WarmA filmmaker goes out to the countryside to get some rest every weekend while a nurse travels into Seoul during the same period to enjoy some culture. details the process of how and when they meet and become close. It’s an enterta...
World Cinema
The Woman Who Brushed off Her TearsTeona Mitevska embraces elements from fairy tales to describe tragic stories of two family in her third movie. The story of the movie, , starts from France to deep in the forest in Macedonia to track its two heroines. One of them,...
Wide Angle
Theatre 1&2This magnificent six-hour documentary, divided into and , meticulously observes the artistic world of Japan’s leading theater director, Hirata Oriza, and his company, Seinendan, just as it observes the relationship between art an...
Wide Angle
This Is LondonA young man living in London writes a letter to his parents asking for a recent photograph of them. This marks the beginning of a wild adventure that will ideally end in the perfect picture. The universal language of parental love...
Wide Angle
Three SistersIn a Chinese mountain village the daily routine of three sisters begins. Living unsupervised in an old house, the young girls barely manage to feed themselves and spend their days at hard labor. Their father finally returns but th...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Thy WombBangas-An and his wife Shaleha are a childless Muslim couple struggling to make ends meet in a region fraught with violence and poverty. They are also a Bajau couple, widely considered gypsies, a frequently maligned and oppressed ...
New Currents
TogetherLet’s just forget about the dramatic love portrayed in films or novels for a moment. The love that Director Hsu Chao-Jen portrays in can easily be called Down-to-Earth. Everyone around Xiao Yang, a 17-year-old high school boy, su...
Wide Angle
Tony Rayns and a Quarter Century of Korean CinemaAsian cinema expert, prominent film critic and programmer Tony Rayns is well known to us for his special ties with Korean cinema. Since he came to Korea for the first time in 1988, he has discovered and introduced talented Korean ...
Korean Cinema Today
TouchThis is a drama about a family consisting of three members who have many stories to tell and it is the first of the director′s ′Life Triology′ as well. Through this family story the director emphasizes the importance of communicat...