A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2013
• 96min

Nazanin is a medical student moved to Tehran having a problem getting into the school dormitory, so that she has to find a rent. Although she has to support herself by giving private lessons to kids to buy books, she has good fort...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2013
• 127min

In 1999, a young man reveals a deadly dagger at a campaign site of a female politician in Mumbai. The 19-year old guitarist wants revenge upon the politician who had terrorized his father. In Goa, the best man catches the bride’s ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2013
• 102min

Though based on the 146th Akutagawa Prize winning novel by Shinya Tanaka, this film is also in line with the Aoyama Shinji’s previous works in the sense that it deals with irresistible fate. The parents of teenage Toma are separat...

World Cinema

• France,Germany
• 2013
• 100min

Night rain is drizzling on the streets of Paris. A man’s corpse is shown, then the camera focuses on a young, naked woman walking. With blood streaming down her legs, she is immediately hospitalized, and her furious uncle dashes o...

• Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard)

Flash Forward

• Sweden
• 2013
• 89min

What happens when the hidden truth behind an old rivalry is challenged? Artist Anna Odell stars as herself (sort of) in this drama about a class reunion. In doing so, she reveals unseen hierarchies and the nature of power and excl...

Flash Forward

• France
• 2013
• 95min

Brothers Boris and Dimitri share a medical practice in Paris, and are equally devoted to their patients and to each other. When they both fall in love with Judith, the single mother of one of their diabetic patients, it throws the...

• BUSAN Bank Award Candidate

Flash Forward

• Switzerland,Germany
• 2013
• 98min

Dreamland is a story about a wealthy pregnant woman, a social worker, a divorced man, and a widow on Christmas Eve. A young prostitute, the common denominator among them, is sacrificed to the hopes and desires of their relationshi...

• BUSAN Bank Award Candidate

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 105min

This rediscovery is one of Park Chul-soo’s early films, based on a novel by Lee Oi-soo. Two poor college students struggle to survive in an abandoned house. The man is absorbed with painting the image of 99 dogs on a canvas, while...

Flash Forward

• UK
• 2013
• 85min

Jacque arrives in London to learn cooking under the great British chef Victor, whom Jacque thinks is his father. Moving into an apartment complex, Jacque meets Stella with big and beautiful eyes, and Patty, who is involved with in...

• BUSAN Bank Award Candidate

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan,France
• 2013
• 138min

In line with his previous work Walker, Tsai Ming Liang proves to be evolving with his filmmaking style that he uses images to develop a story in his latest film Stray Dogs. He did his own production design in this film in pursuit ...