Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2014
• 100min

Here we meet a teenaged Ahn Sung-ki. During the Korean War in 1951, Sang-han and Dong-in smuggle 20 million won to Busan. Dong-in disappears during the job, and five years pass. In that time Sang-han gains success in the furniture...

Wide Angle

• Tajikistan
• 2014
• 20min

A mute boy lives in his own little poetic world. Despite his inability to communicate by speech, he experiences no obstacles in life. He sees an infinite spectrum of unrealized possibilities: to fly like a bird; to gather flowers ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2014
• 154min

A village in Kashmir where long conflicts still go on, a doctor takes a risk to cure a wounded leader of the rebels. While in surgery, soldiers raid his house and take him away. The son of the doctor returns home upon hearing the ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2014
• 85min

Catholic priest, Myeong-jun, climbs up one of the bridges crossing the Han River to commit suicide after learning that a woman who loved him in the past, has killed herself. Then Jang-hyo, a homeless person, tells the man on the b...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,Japan
• 2014
• 96min

A Korean filmmaker journeys to a small rural town in Japan, Gojo with his assistant director Mijung who interprets for him. The film is in two parts whereby the first tells the story of the filmmaker’s encounters with interesting ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2014
• 111min

When Korea was under severe economic difficulty, the situation in fishing villages was no better than in any other areas in the country. When his old fishing boat breaks down once again, Captain Cheolju decides to take illegal imm...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2014
• 129min

China sends the great seal as a gift to acknowledge the foundation of Joseon, but the token is swallowed by a whale. The new government hope to retrieve the seal, but pirates and bandits begin their own search efforts. Ultimately,...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Vietnam,France,Germany,Norway
• 2014
• 103min

This is the debut feature by Diep Nguyen Hoang, a producer on Phan Dang Di’s Bi, Don’t be Afraid (A Window on Asian Cinema, BIFF 2010). Huyen is a student in Hanoi, who decides to have an abortion. Her boyfriend’s income is low an...

• 2010 APM Project

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2014
• 11min

A woman lives with her mother, who suffers dementia. It’s a difficult job, and one day after seeing a hurdle game on TV she takes her mother out jumping hurdles. (NAM Dong-chul)

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2014
• 94min

Filmmaker Lee Donku who was invited to the Busan International Film Festival, New Currents with his debut film Fatal(2012) returns with a tale of irreversible tragedy in his second feature Entangled. There is a house where a famil...