BUSAN Classic

• Kazakhstan
• 2018
• 27min

Kazakhstan-born second generation Koryoin Son Lavrenti is the interviewer of the film featuring variety of people fluent in Koryo. Experiences under the Soviet regime were oppressive, but also created tribal ties and affiliation a...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Uzbekistan
• 2018
• 78min

1989. Saidulla, a retired Soviet military officer, lives alone in a small house. His son and grandson live in the same town, but they never visit. He is often afflicted by visions of an old war time comrade who comes to haunt him....

Wide Angle

• SriLanka
• 2018
• 13min

While getting ready to go home after a long day of work, the main character drops her hearing aid in the sink. Once wet, it stops working, and everything in the otherwise normal night becomes something dangerous. The film brings a...

New Currents

• Iran
• 2018
• 87min

Reza is a gold runner who delivers gold pieces after work to retailers. Delivering the gold as usual one day, a group of gangs hit him and steal the gold pieces. The owner of the retail business demands paying back, but Reza has n...

Midnight Passion

• Ukraina,Israel,United States
• 2018
• 97min

Set in 17th century Eastern Europe, The Golem follows a woman in a devout Jewish community that is besieged by foreign invaders who believe that the Jews have cursed them with a plague. The leader of the invaders threatens to dest...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2018
• 137min

The Spy Gone North is based on a true story about a South Korean spy codenamed Black Venus. In 1993, the National Security Agency (NSA) obtains North Korea’s nuclear development plans and sends an operative for confirmation. Park ...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2018
• 108min

Widow Dance (1983) is a movie based on Lee Cheol-yong’s novel. It is the same as Lee Jang-ho’s other movie, Children of Darkness, in regards to be based on Lee’s novel. The film criticizes society by describing the life of widows ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2018
• 90min

In February 2013, Park Geun-hye became the 18th President of Korea. Her career as First Lady during the Yushin regime aroused public concern about her view of history and democracy. The sequence of incidents took place in her pres...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2018
• 189min

The 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, with a magnitude 7.9, killed nearly 150,000, and the chaos of post-quake Japan brought about a surge of ultra-nationalism and militarism. In the following decades, socialists, anarchists, defenders...

• APM 2016

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2018
• 89min

Korea is the only divided country in the world. Almost all men with South Korean nationality are required to serve in the military according to the military service law in Korea. The same applies to Woochul, the main character of ...

• 2014 AND YoungSan Fund