Open Cinema

• Japan
• 2016
• 120min

In Tokyo Bay, a giant creature emerges from the water and destroys the city. This monster evolves, getting bigger at each appearance. After declaring a national emergency, the Japanese government holds meetings with officials and ...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2016
• 15min

Ximending was once the trendiest place in Taipei. It was also the shooting location for Lee Kang-sheng’s first leading feature film, Rebels of the Neon God. Twenty years later, Lee returns to where everything started and makes a f...

World Cinema

• Spain
• 2016
• 127min

August 2011 in Madrid. A record-breaking heat wave hovers oppressively over the city as 1.5 million citizens await the Pope’s visit. Despite the tight security, there occur rape-murders of several elderly people. Two bad-tempered ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2016
• 144min

In Korea during the Japanese colonial period, heiress Hideko loses her parents when she is young and lives with her uncle, a con man, as her guardian. He and maid Sukhee start living with her in her mansion hoping to snatch her in...

• Cannes Film Festival (In Competition)

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2016
• 112min

Doil is about to get out of the army. Waiting for him are Soonyoung, a woman he’s promised to marry, and his newborn son. On furlough, Doil finds out that he is not the biological father, and shortly after, Soonyoung disappears. ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2016
• 19min

The owner of a laundry watches a boy dancing late at night through its CCTV. Noticing he is wearing a hearing aid, the owner assumes the boy has hearing impairment, and begins to imagine his life.

Special Programs in Focus

• Colombia
• 2016
• 86min

The Araucaima Mansion is the second feature by Carlos Mayolo, based on the prestigious Cervantes Award-winning novel by Colombian writer Alvaro Mutis. The film constructs a story of a young girl who escapes from the set of a comme...

Flash Forward

• Greece,UK,Germany
• 2016
• 87min

Tattoo artist Billy and unemployed Nakos are best friends from Athens. Old bachelor Nakos is a racist, obsessed with the victim mentality, and he rages at Greece’s increasing immigrant numbers. Billy, however, is in favor of forei...

• BNK Busan Bank Award candidate

New Currents

• China
• 2016
• 105min

The Donor describes the dark side of modern Chinese society by telling a story where the good will to protect a family brings about tragedy after all. Yang Ba is not able to give financial support to his family and decides to sell...

Special Programs in Focus

• Colombia
• 2016
• 15min