A Window on Asian Cinema
ComplicityChen Liang leaves his hometown for Japan to improve his life, despite the disapproval of his sickly mother and elderly grandmother. Life for an illegal Chinese immigrant with a fake ID is not easy, and one day he receives a call a...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
Good Windy DaysGood Windy Days(1980) is the movie that defines Lee Jang-ho as a critical social realism writer. Ahn Sung-ki returns to the big screen as an adult actor for the first time in this film. Numerous actors such as Kim Seong-chan, Lee ...
BUSAN Classic
The Other Side of the WindIn 1970, legendary director Orson Welles began filming what would ultimately be his final cinematic opus with a cast of Hollywood luminaries including John Huston, Peter Bogdanovich, Susan Strasberg and Welles’s partner during hi...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
Declaration of IdiotDeclaration of Idiot (1983), by typical realist film director Lee Jang-ho, adopts the use of innovative movie techniques that influence next generation filmmakers. He recorded ironic narration with a children’s voice, shot in low-...
Flash Forward
MuseumDirector Alonso Ruizpalacios returns with Museum following his breakout debut, Gueros (2014). Inspired from a real event?the heist that occurred at Mexico City’s National Museum of Anthropology in 1985, the film shows Juan living ...
Wide Angle
BELIEVE IT OR NOTA man and a woman suddenly learn that they are spies. What and who did they work the last ten years for? A question arises between the two when they confront each other.
Korean Cinema Today
night lightOne cold winter, Hee-tae is diagnosed as terminally ill. He receives a letter from his ex-wife who divorced him and left 10 years ago. She wants their son, Min-sang′s name to be registered under Hee-tae′s family registry for a sta...
Wide Angle
The StrangersIn this film beginning with the line, "I have a nightmare whenever fall comes," the director visits her hometown Chuncheon after four years. Her nightmare, which seemed to end when she left Chuncheon, has been repeated every year ...
Wide Angle
Cloud, EncoreCloud, Encore is a kind of "making-of film" about the filming of Im Kwon-taek’s 102nd film Revivre. Of course, as Gravity of the Tea was not a biographical film, neither is this one in the usual sense. Jung Sung-il used the expres...
Wide Angle
A Million YearsA woman taking a break in a riverside restaurant talks about her past experiences with the server and is at times mesmerized by the water and the trees. Such a beautiful scene may soon be destroyed at the hands of development, and...