Gala Presentation
Rolling Home with a BullThe film is based on the original novel by Korean author Kim Dongmyeong. Despite his father’s objections, an old bachelor and poet takes the bull to a cattle market. He fails to sell the bull and starts a journey to visit cattle ...
Flash Forward
RondoBrussels, summer of 1942 during Nazi regime. Joseph Miller is arrested by the Germans during his trip to the zoo with his son Simon. Simon manages to escape, and aided by the resistance is sent to England, where is grandfather, Ab...
New Currents
Sampaguita, National FlowerAnyone who has visited the Philippines knows the street-children who besiege motorists, taxi passengers and pedestrians with requests to buy small garlands of scented sampaguita flowers. Sociologically, the kids are a symptom of e...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Sandcastle18-year-old En is thrown into confusion while grappling with his first love with the girl next door, the sudden death of his grandfather, his Alzheimer’s-suffering grandmother and his mom’s new boyfriend. En also happens to know t...
Korean Cinema Today
Second HalfBeing tired of business failures and twisted matters, a film producer takes a trip to Donghae. As he encounters a charming woman in her 20’s working at the hotel where he is staying, they go around the town together for a gourmet ...
Korean Cinema Today
Secret ReunionHangyu, a National Intelligence Service agent, Jiwon a North Korean agent sent south, meet again after six years since an unknown shoot-out occurred in the heart of Seoul. They both are aware they are each from their national agen...
Special Programs in Focus
Shock Continues LongSoomi, who recently returned from her studies in France, retains a haunting memory; she was gang-raped during a date with Jinwoo while a freshman in college. Despite Jinwoo’s attempts to mend her physical and emotional injury, Soo...
World Cinema
Silence LiesThe film is ‘an adult growing-up film, by adults, for the adults’. In many ways ? the natural cooperation between actors, gradual transformation of the characters, etc. ? the film is a female version of [Erratum], which is being s...
Wide Angle
SkywhaleThe whale that used to spray water when people called in times of drought is gone. A man with a suffocating job runs into a girl he used to call the whale. A contrast between the miraculous force of nature and the harshness of cit...
Wide Angle
SomedayWhat is my father’s gender? According to a elementary school student, Gon, the correct answer is female. This is the answer he writes in his aptitude test. When his parents are called in to school by his teacher, the reason behind...