A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2014
• 86min

Lin’s family is financially devastated when his father undergoes a pricey medical treatment for leukemia. Despite her overbearing workload, his mother makes rounds asking for loans, Lin’s older sister becomes a call girl and Lin p...

• Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard)

Flash Forward

• Czech Republic,SlovakRepublic,Germany
• 2014
• 99min

Czechoslovakia, 1980. Anna, a young and talented athlete, is training for the Olympic Games. To maximize her stats, her coach and doctor talk to Anna’s mother and secretly prescribe an anabolic steroid for Anna. Getting an injecti...

• Candidate for BUSAN Bank Award

World Cinema

• UK
• 2014
• 101min

Thomas Lang is a film director who is offered the chance to adapt a book by American journalist Simone Ford, which recounts the controversial trial of American student Jessica Fuller for the murder of her roommate Elizabeth Pryce....

Special Programs in Focus

• Georgia,Georgia
• 2014
• 32min

This short film is directed by Salome Alexi, a descendant of the three-generation-long female filmmaker family. Tamara works as an illegal immigrant in Italy, and when her husband dies in her Georgia home, all she can do is wail o...

Wide Angle

• Sweden,Finland,Denmark,United States
• 2014
• 85min

A scholar reads calmly while sitting in front of a bookshelf filled with books. It is Gayatri Spivak, the godmother of post-colonialism, who gently yet firmly speaks of how women became involved in the liberation from European col...

• Berlin Film Festival (Panorama)

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2014
• 102min

At the same time as murder suspect Yeo-hoon is brought unconscious to the Emergency Room following a shooting incident, an assailant breaks into the house of Tae-jun, the Emergency room’s doctor in charge, and kidnaps his wife. Th...

Wide Angle

• Philippines
• 2014
• 20min

Cinta is a middle-aged Filipino actress who tries to remember and relive her faded glory days as a leading movie star back in the 1970s. She does this by staying home and watching her films every day. What will it take to wake her...

World Cinema

• Cuba
• 2014
• 108min

Chala is a troublemaker. Carmela, his nearly retired teacher, is the only person who knows that Chala is a mature and strong boy serving as the breadwinner for her alcoholic mother. One day, Chala is involved in an illegal dog fig...

World Cinema

• Spain,Canada,France
• 2014
• 112min

A mother and her son ? they had to be separated for many years because of an event that occurred during the son’s youth. The mother is an artist with powers of healing. The boy grows up to become a falconer. A reporter comes looki...

• Berlin Film Festival (In Competition)

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2014
• 103min

An accordion player moves in to a boarding house three years after a fire and subsequent plastic surgery has remade him as Min-gu from In-suk. Hearing him play the same song over and over, his rich neighbor’s second wife, Hwang Ja...