Special Programs in Focus

• Georgia,Germany
• 2014
• 101min

A number of people gather at a small town school for a film casting. In a series of interviews disguised as auditions, people aged between 15 to 23 stand before the camera and share their life stories including: a boy waiting for ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2014
• 110min

There is a place that seems familiar, yet remains strange; a place to await death. It is the hospice ward. Patients there play games, enjoy leisure time and take walks with family. Death is the same, but how one deals with it is d...

Wide Angle

• China,France
• 2014
• 83min

From growing to harvesting cotton, spinning thread to make fabric, creating clothing, and finally selling it, the clothing industry is intricately connected to the lives of its tens of millions of Chinese famers, laborers and midd...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2014
• 11min

An old woman living alone eats her meal of rice and dried radish. She seems to have a family living far away but a phone call doesn’t connect. She, therefore, eats her meal alone again. (NAM Dong-chul)

Wide Angle

• France
• 2014
• 88min

This is a documentary-animation by French director Michel Gondry in the form of illustrated interviews with US linguist and political commentator Noam Chomsky. If the 19th-century had Saussure as its linguist, the 20th century lin...

Special Programs in Focus

• Georgia,France,Luxembourg
• 2014
• 91min

Ten housewives are selected for a televised reality program to choose the best mother. All with their own life stories, the contestants undergo all kinds of humiliation to win the cash prize and an apartment. Following the cooking...

• 2012 Venice Film Festival (Venice Days)

Flash Forward

• Germany,Czech Republic
• 2014
• 101min

Julius Schmitke is a fifty-seven-year-old German wind turbine engineer. He feels ill and his body creaks, crunches and groans with age. One day, he is sent somewhere to the Czech side of the Ore Mountains to fix one of his old mod...

• Candidate for BUSAN Bank Award

Flash Forward

• Uruguay,Spain,Germany
• 2014
• 98min

Mr. Kaplan is an grumpy Jewish man in his 70s living in Uruguay. During World War II, he escaped from the Nazis and moved to South America. He isn’t happy about his family’s disinterest in his past. One day, Kaplan becomes convinc...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2014
• 28min

Yeonhee desperately waits for the day to see her lover Minwoo. When the day comes, she puts her heart into making lunch and gets on the bus to Pyeong-yang. (NAM Dong-chul)

Wide Angle

• Ireland
• 2014
• 93min

Ben is a young boy who lives his parents on a small island with one lonely lighthouse. His mother sings beautiful lullabies for him every night, but dies while giving birth to his sister, Saoirse. When his grandmother finds out th...