Korean Cinema Today
GyeongjuChoi Hyun, a Chinese professor, comes to Korea to attend the funeral of his old friend. The professor visits Gyeongju to find the obscene picture which he saw with the dead friend seven years ago. He goes to the cafe where the pic...
Flash Forward
The High PressuresAs a way of getting over his recent bitter romantic relationships, Miguel goes to his hometown after a long time in search of a shooting location for a film. Seeing old friends and reminiscing about the good old days, he becomes t...
Wide Angle
The old treeAn old man is living with his young son in a modest wooden house on dry and barren agricultural land. His son wants to sell the land and the house, but the old man refuses to leave his interests behind. This unresolvable conflict ...
Open Cinema
The GateCambodia, 1971. Falsely accused of being a CIA spy, Francois Bizot, an ethnologist, stays in the Khmer Rouge’s labor camp for four months. As his survival depends on the generosity of the young camp commander Douch, Bizot desperat...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Goli SodaFour orphan boys, without identities, earn a daily wage as porters in a big market. They find amusement in stealing a glance at the schoolgirls passing by. A shop owner who considers them her own sons helps them to ask the market ...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Partners in CrimeThe latest feature from Chang Jung-Chi, winner of the Best New Director at the Golden Horse Film Festival in 2012 for Touch of the Light, opened the Taipei Film Festival in July 2014 to rave reviews. Partners in Crimestarts with a...
Korean Cinema Today
Venus TalkWhat kind of lovelife do women in their 40s have? Shin-hye is a product director at a television broadcaster, Mi-yeon is a housewife who is actively pursuing sexual content, and Hae-yeong is a single mom who runs a bakery. Shin-hy...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
Border LineKwon-ho and his wife Duk-Kyung hold different ideologies but work together in the independence movement against Japan. After barely surviving a battle, they are eparated, each taking one of their twin sons, Dae-il and Han-il. Year...
Korean Cinema Today
KUNDO: Age of the RampantIn the latter period of Joseon, the tyranny of noblemen and government officials becomes more severe than ever, resulting in the emergence of some Robin Hood-type figures. Some outlaws including “Chu-seol of the Jiri Mountain” bec...
Opening Film & Closing Film
Paradise in ServiceA film directed by Doze Chen-Zer Niu ruminating on Taiwan during the 1960s and ’70s. In 1969, Kinmen, new recruit Pao is transferred to the Sea Dragon, the Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion still in a standoff with Mainland Chin...