Flash Forward
Son of OxJoao is a lonely boy living in the outback. No friends, no mother, and no bond with his father, he is scorned as ‘Son of Ox’ and desperately wants to escape. One day a small circus arrives in town and the leader Shaggy announces J...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
Hwang Jin-ieHWANG Jin-ie (JANG Mihee) hears about the suicide of the leather shoemaker (AHN Seong-ki), who had a crush on her on the eve of her wedding. Broken up her engagement for pacifying the deceased’s soul, HWANG Jin-ie enters the path ...
Special Programs in Focus
A Day OffSometimes movies are remembered for their sceneries and atmospheres. A Day Off focuses on the atmosphere of space, especially among Director LEE Man-hee’s filmography, who boasted a wide range of spectra, from popular narrative ge...
Special Programs in Focus 2
EarthBased on Bapsi Sidhwa′s novel ‘Cracking India,’ the film Earth addresses the violence and strife associated with the partition of India from the Great Britain and the formation of Paskistan in 1947. A young Parsi girl named Lenny ...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Ten Years TaiwanWhat will our lives be like 10 years from now? Five up and coming Taiwanese directors each offer their own take answering this question. In 2028, Taiwan is suffering from nuclear waste (“The Can of Anido”), migrant workers (“942”)...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Ten Years JapanTen Years Japan succeeds the famous Ten Years produced in 2015 in Hong Kong as part of the Ten Years International Project to premiere in Busan. Executive produced by one of the most renowned directors working today, Kore-eda Hiro...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Ten Years ThailandIn 2014 in Thailand, a military coup occurred and the military regime took over. Four distinctive 21st century Thai perspectives explore how militarism penetrates and relates to everyday life. The seemingly peaceful social order ...
World Cinema
A Twelve-Year NightIn Uruguay under the military dictatorship, in September 1973 the Tupamaros guerrilla group that fights against the military government breaks down and all the key members are imprisoned. One day they are secretly transferred to a...
Wide Angle
Turning 18The two girls meet in a vocational training program. Growing up in a poor indigenous family, Chen had to take care of her seven brothers and sisters instead of her mother. Although she misses her mother while being separated from ...
A Window on Asian Cinema
3 FACESA famous actor and director visit a mountain village to reveal the authenticity of a video sent by a young girl. The visit confirms the issues of gender, rural conservatism, different languages, and so on. However, the social and ...