Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2011
• 80min

[The Legend of Shin Film] begins with Shin Sang-ok saying,“ I’ve never considered film as an art form. Film is an industry. Film is both a social medium and a form of entertainment…” This movie follows his life and the history of ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2011
• 130min

This is director Kim Jee-woon’s western film, which is the 21st century adaptation of the Manchuria western films featured in Korea’s film history during the 1960s. Since the beginning of its production, the film received attentio...

Wide Angle

• Denmark
• 2011
• 73min

To 11 year old Jonathan, his little sister Sophie’s mere existence is a nuisance; she is someone who only gets in the way of his time alone with his grandfather during vacation. When Sophie is kidnapped by a bear that lives in a n...

Gala Presentation

• Korea
• 2011
• 119min

A sensational visit from a welcome guest of this year’s Busan International Film Festival! The existing 2D movie The Host underwent transformation into 3D and makes its world premiere. [The Host 3D] is a significant accomplishment...

World Cinema

• Australia
• 2011
• 100min

Decades of rumour and unconfirmed sightings have long fuelled the idea, that the Tasmanian Tiger ? said to be extinct since 1936 ? is still surviving in the southern wilderness. Working from a popular novel, scriptwriter Alison Ad...

Flash Forward

• Estonia
• 2011
• 132min

[The Idiot] is an Estonian adaptation of the Dostoyevsky’s novel of the same title. It is a drama of annihilation driven by significant characters of Myshkin, Natasha, and Rogozhin. Myshkin’s sincerity is mistaken as naivete and l...

Midnight Passion

• Korea,Thailand
• 2011
• 105min

A Taekwondo medalist Moon and his wife Yun have been running a Taekwondo stuio in Bangkok for twenty years with their children. They are living a happy life, but Moon’s son Taeju, against his father’s will, wants to become a fam...

World Cinema

• Belgium,France,Italy
• 2011
• 87min

Cyril, an eleven-year-old boy, has been left in a children’s home because his father has no money. Denying that his father has abandoned him, Cyril sets out to come find his parent, only to discover that his father has even sold a...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2011
• 97min

Following on the success of [Leafie], which broke the box office record for Korean animation, selling over 2 million tickets, [The King of Pigs] offers yet another kind of meaningful film in Korean animation history. Director Yeon...

Gala Presentation

• France,UK
• 2011
• 132min

The inspiring story of Aung San Suu Kyi’s growth, fight for peace and lifelong love story with her husband is world-renowned French director/producer Luc Besson’s latest film. Left behind by her father, Burmese national hero Aung...