Special Programs in Focus

• Portugal,France
• 2011
• 147min

This is a documentary-like feature film by Miguel Gomes in which himself and his film crew travel through the rustic Portuguese countryside to participate in several music festivals in August. On the surface, there appears to be n...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand
• 2011
• 98min

Rek and Kong start sneaking into empty homes and vicariously experiencing the homeowner’s lives. They are not stealing anything; they’re simply borrowing the homeowners’ homes, possessions and lives. Then one day, they come face t...

World Cinema

• Ireland,Finland
• 2011
• 90min

Fred Daly leads a quiet and lonely life in his car, giving up on all hope of improving his conditions. However, when Cathal, a young man with a positive attitude, becomes his neighbor, everything changes. Sharing sadness and happi...

Special Programs in Focus

• Portugal
• 2011
• 116min

[Past and Present], first film of the ‘Thwarted Love’ tetralogy is being introduced in Korea for the first time. Vanda gathers her friends together to mourn her first husband’s death. Soon after her second husband Firmino jumps ou...

Wide Angle

• Australia
• 2011
• 10min

Contrary to the Australian reputation for openness, this sharp short highlights the suspicious nature and violent reflex underneath Australia’s celebrated amiability. A mother and her young daughters are returning home when they e...

Special Programs in Focus

• Hong Kong,China
• 2011
• 123min

[Peony Pavilion] is an operatic drama where Yonfan’s esthetic sense of visual art reaches its pinnacle. Lan falls in love with Cui-Hua, a Kunqu opera actress after watching her performance. Becoming an actress herself, Lan and Cui...

Special Programs in Focus

• Portugal
• 2011
• 68min

Edgar Pera’s visual poem dedicated to a Portuguese musician of national importance. Paredes leads us, by way of voice-over narration, through the landscape of Lisbon, a city of immigrants, and the various aspects of other cities s...

Special Programs in Focus

• Portugal
• 2011
• 90min

Sergio is a gay man who is a street cleaner. His life is filled with unrequited desires and taboo fantasies. He falls in love with a man on a motorcycle and tries to force his desires on him but to no avail. An unabashed look at t...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2011
• 97min

Busan’s representative director JEON Soo-il brings his 8th full feature film. It’s set around ‘Pink’, a shabby bar, to capture and depict in detail several low lives in the director’s characteristic silent style. Even with the sti...

Wide Angle

• India,United States
• 2011
• 75min

2010 AND BIFF Supporters Fund A documentary about an escape for people that have fallen under the brand of? thief’. A minority group ghettoized during British colonial rule is still trapped within an independent India; all but fo...