World Cinema
Gigola16-year-old George’s first love was her teacher, Sybil. A few years after her lover′s eventual suicide, George embarks on an exciting and reckless journey to the depths of Pigalle′s nightlife, circa 1960. After an encounter with a...
Wide Angle
Grave KeeperDaerim is an agent who cuts the grass in cemeteries in Jeju Island, who secretly admires a hairdresser called Sohee. The cemetery grass cutter and the hairdresser ? he identifies with her through his job and finds himself drawn to...
Wide Angle
Green DaysNot wanting to lose, Yi-rang orchestrates a collapse in the middle of a relay race even though she’s on the verge of giving up her dream of becoming an athlete. At the same time, Soo-min transfers in from Seoul and Cheol-soo, who ...
Korean Cinema Today
HahahaAn aspiring director Munkyung meets film critic Jungshik for rice wine before moving to Canada. They realize they’ve both just recently been to Tongyeong, so they share the stories while drinking. The two do not realize however th...
Special Programs in Focus
Half MoonThe great Kurdish musician Mamo and his sons are on their way to Arbil in Iraq for a public performance following the collapse of the Saddam Hussein Regime. However their travels do not go smoothly. The suffering that they have en...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Haru’s JourneyAnother road movie from Kobayashi Masahiro, this time depicting the journey of a grandfather and his granddaughter as they search for the meaning of family. Set in a small fishing village in Hokkaido, the granddaughter, Haru, mak...
World Cinema
HeartbeatsFrancis and Marie are best friends. They attend a party and fall in love with Nicolas at first sight who seems like a reincarnation of Adonis. The two pretend to be indifferent to Nicolas, who is gentle and nice to both of them. W...
Open Cinema
Here Comes the Bride[Here Comes the Bride] is a romantic comedy directed by up-and-coming Filipino director Chris Martinez that exploits the ‘night before the wedding’ scenario, one of the classic subjects for this genre. Martinez adds body swapping ...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Here Comes the Bride, My MomOne day, as the mother announces her marriage, the relationship between mother and daughter faces the crisis. In addition, her husband-to-be is a blonde-dyed-haired thirty years old man. Tsuki, the daughter moves into the landlady...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Hi-SoToday, a considerable part of our lives has become globalized, and the regional borders separating youngsters are also disappearing. Director Aditya Assarat captures the daily lives of the young, including his own, and addresses a...