New Currents

• Korea
• 2015
• 103min

This black and white film with a 4:3 aspect ratio unfolds following an abnormal couple. An eight-minute long take intro doesn’t show the main character’s face, but shows the other woman’s face, who keeps asking questions. One of t...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2015
• 107min

A wandering musician is traveling to Seoul for his son Yeongnam, who badly needs treatment for a lung disease. Coming to a small village on the way, the musician asks about a bed for a night, and discovers this village has a serio...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2015
• 115min

This is the second feature film from director Lee Byeongheon, who made his debut with Cheer up Mr. Lee (2012). His new film, The Twenty, also centers on youthful development. It follows three 20-year-old men who have been together...

Wide Angle

• Mexico
• 2015
• 71min

Marina, who lives in a small Mexican village, is a curious little girl who loves singing. One day, her village holds a festival, where Marina and her cousins meet a boy who became a stone on a circus troupe’s carriage. In order to...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2015
• 87min

Following the Fukushima nuclear incident, a young couple moves to Tokyo where they realize that the wife is pregnant. She wants to have an abortion, worried the baby might have been affected by radioactive contamination and concer...

Special Programs in Focus

• China,Hong Kong,China
• 2015
• 112min

When Still Life was screened at the Venice Film Festival, a surprise entry that received the Golden Lion, I realized that our Jia Zhangke had become the “internationally renowned” Jia Zhangke. Then again, he was internationally re...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2015
• 83min

Each night, a homeless girl stays in abandoned houses to get by. In the winter, she leaves the cold environs of Seoul and heads to Busan, eventually finding an empty house in an abandoned part of town. She starts looking for a way...

• 2015 ACF Post-Production Fund

Wide Angle

• Korea,United States
• 2015
• 87min

A Korean in New York makes friends with Annie. Annie, who laughs, sings, talks a lot, gladly sharing and who is HIV-positive and has Hepatitis C. Annie was an abused child who was raped, abused drugs, was involved in prostitution ...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2015
• 152min

Henry Mittwer is a 93-year-old Zen monk living in Kyoto. Despite his age, he’s determined to make a film about an orphaned girl’s longing for her mother. The idea for the film isn’t too dissimilar from Henry’s own life. Born in Ja...

• 2013 AND Dongseo Asia Fund

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2015
• 121min

Set on the lively and picturesque streets of the capital of Taiwan, The Mad King of Taipei depicts the lives of common Taiwanese people who, in an attempt to leave the past behind, search for new hopes and dreams. In the film’s ve...