New Currents

• SriLanka
• 2011
• 108min

Life, death, and basic human desire?no one can escape from these inevitabilities. [August Drizzle] follows the life of a female mortician and tells a tale of universal human desires. Somalata, a woman mortician, works with Piyasi...

Wide Angle

• Jordan,United Arab Emirates
• 2011
• 14min

Elderly couple Bahiya and Mahmoud never stop bickering. After waking from a nap Mahmoud goes looking for his absent wife. Upon arriving home, Bahiya finds the house empty and goes looking for Mahmoud. Despite their constant quarre...

World Cinema

• Germany,Kazakhstan,Russia
• 2011
• 95min

Baikonur is a name of an area of Kazakhstan. The former Soviet built the world’s first space ship launching site there and it is still the largest running launching site. Villagers make their living out of collecting and selling m...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2011
• 97min

An extraordinary independent filmmaker, Lee Sang-woo returns to the Busan International Film Festival with this controversial ‘big budget’ feature, made for some cost of $100,000. [Father is a Dog], Lee’s extremely low budget film...

Wide Angle

• Finland,Lithuania
• 2011
• 59min

Set in a war torn Chechen city, this documentary about a missing man, his family, and neighbors premiered at Berlin. Unfolding over the years between 2006 and 2009, [Barzakh] is about those who disappeared after being taken away b...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2011
• 98min

[Beautiful Miss Jin] is a well-made local film that emphasized the importance of ‘living together.’ The title, of course, is ironic expression of the reality. Miss Jin is certainly not beautiful yet her mind is. She is a homeless ...

World Cinema

• UK
• 2011
• 83min

In an attempt to save his junkie son Joe, Eddie agrees to do a mysterious pick up with the help of Joe’s girlfriend Liz. On their trip toward Ulster, located in the central part of the country, they pick up a lamb. However, since ...

World Cinema

• United States
• 2011
• 106min

Two friends spend their time building weapons, waiting for a global apocalypse. They have an illusion that the apocalypse will occur and make it ready for their imaginary gang ‘Mother Medusa’ to wipe out world. One of them, howeve...

World Cinema

• Romania
• 2011
• 102min

[Best Intentions] is the latest offering from director Adrian Sitaru, an emerging star in Romanian new wave who is perhaps best known for his work, [Hooked]. Alex panics at a phone call notifying that his mother was hospitalized f...

Special Programs in Focus

• Hong Kong,China
• 2011
• 101min

[Bishonen] is a beautiful love letter dedicated to a tragic love where accidental encounters and fateful farewells all entangle. Jet sells himself to strangers, longing for a true love. He runs into a cop, Sam, and the two soon be...