World Cinema

• United States
• 2013
• 93min

The Warwick family is unknowingly being filmed for a new reality show. Problem is that the whole family is too boring, and the cable TV executives don’t like what they see and want to cancel the show. In a desperate attempt to sal...

Midnight Passion

• Spain
• 2013
• 98min

Kate and Alex make an enviable couple: They are young, successful and very much in love. Kate works at the hospital in the Return Unit, helping those who have been infected by the virus. Kate’s dedication to her work is absolute, ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand
• 2013
• 127min

Awarded the BIFF 2012 New Currents prize for 36 which consisted of 36 shots, Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit once again shows familiar story in unfamiliar way. With graduation only a few months away, high school senior Mary goes thro...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 99min

Impulse disorder patient Icheon fantasizes about playing with his brother Yucheon in the hospital. But to those who don’t know about his fantasies, Icheon is just a strange boy. His mother struggles with paying the hospital bills,...

Special Programs in Focus

• Ireland
• 2013
• 132min

Neil Jordan’s hugely ambitious account of the rise of arguably the central figure in Ireland’s painful, bloody fight for independence. A subject which was always going to be controversial, but at heart it plays out on a historic s...

• 53rd Venice Film Festival - Golden Lion Award

Special Programs in Focus

• Ireland
• 2013
• 104min

Awarded Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival 1970, John Boorman’s early masterpiece is a fascinating allegory of class and racial tension. Marcello Mastroianni plays a bored and exiled monarch living in a run-down London mans...

Wide Angle

• France,Austria
• 2013
• 218min

Theresienstadt was a unique place of propaganda which Adolf Eichmann, one of the major Nazi architects of the Holocaust, called the “model ghetto”. It was designed to mislead the world and Jewish people regarding its real nature; ...

• Cannes Film Festival (Out of Competition)

Midnight Passion

• Thailand
• 2013
• 93min

That summer, Joy, a young and upcoming actress posts a status ‘I want to die’ on her facebook. An attractive boy Singh tries to console her by taking her to the beach for the first time with her best friend Meen and Singh’s duo Ga...

Wide Angle

• Japan,Japan
• 2013
• 19min

To spend more time with the bus driver she has always liked, on the last day of school, a girl rides to the last stop called Ghost Chimney. Depending on the angle, it is looked as one chimney or four chimneys. The girl and the bus...

Opening Film & Closing Film

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 125min

Meet your everyday family: an ailing daughter who is a divorced single mom; the youngest son who makes a living as a chauffeur service driver; an eldest son who tries to keep the family from falling apart; and their destitute olde...