Special Programs in Focus

• Russia
• 2017
• 20min

The man was travelling in winter and got lost. Almost frozen to death, he finds an abandoned yurt. When he wakes up, he sees a girl named Mappa, who had looked after him until he recovered. They eventually fall in love. Later, the...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2017
• 107min

As an old lady looks into the distance where high-voltage power pylons are visible, green leaves sprout from a dead tree nearby, and she looks at her son’s back. Senior citizen Kim Mal-hae, who has protested the construction of py...

Flash Forward

• France,Germany,Netherlands,Chile
• 2017
• 92min

The body of an unidentified woman hidden by the militia is found in a remote morgue. An elderly caretaker, a gravedigger, a woman looking for her missing daughter, and a wounded hearse driver are here. They decide to give her a pr...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2017
• 116min

The biggest box-office hit of the era with some 250,000 viewers in Seoul, and the film that made Shin Seong-il famous. Gangster Dusu and diplomat’s daughter Joanna fall in love after a chance meeting. To make a new man out of Dusu...

Gala Presentation

• Hong Kong,China,China
• 2017
• 111min

As a remake of YouMust Cross the River of Wrath (1976), dedicated to the late Takakura Ken, Manhunt follows the journey of upstanding lawyer Du Qiu (Zhang Hanyu), who is unwittingly drawn into amurder case when all the evidence at...

Flash Forward

• Russia
• 2017
• 78min

In a snow-covered village lives the shepherd Ivan. Every morning he cleans up the manure and feeds the cows. One winter morning, a stranger arrives in the village in an expensive car and offers Ivan good work in the city. Ivan gla...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2017
• 103min

A fantastic animation directed by Yonebayashi Hiromasa, who used to work for Studio Ghibli. Mary is a twelve-year-old girl with curly red hair. Although she makes lots of mistakes, she’s cheerful and full of curiosity. While spend...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2017
• 82min

Actor Jaeha and idol star Youngwoo are cast in Unchain, a stage drama about the love, hate, pain and deception between two men. Jaeha eagerly practices and doesn’t approve of Youngwoo’s insincere attitude. With repeated practice, ...

Midnight Passion

• United States
• 2017
• 86min

A dangerous virus, one that prevents the infected from controlling their compulsions, is discovered in a corporate law office, the very same firm that recently cleared an infected man on murder charges. When a quarantine is issued...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2017
• 28min

Si-eun, a new kindergarten teacher, believes that between six-year Seo-ra and a boy her age, some kind of bad education is starting up.