A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia
• 2013
• 104min

What They Don’t Talk about When They Talk about Love is the second full feature film by Mouly Surya, who visited BIFF in 2008 with her debut film, Fiksi. This new film is a story about love and growing up in a school for blind gir...

Wide Angle

• Philippines,Germany,France
• 2013
• 75min

A young, gay, Filipino, Jazz is in love with a middle-aged German man and is about to marry him. He is excited to be waiting at the airport for his fiance flying to the Philippines to meet his parents for the first time. He is, ho...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2013
• 114min

A comedy film about two young Japanese women of Satori(nirvana) generation. A freelancer writer Tamami ran into another woman Juno in the house of her boyfriend whom she dated for months. They soon realized that their mutual boyfr...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 101min

As a follow-up to the pioneering animation The King of Pigs (2011), Yeon Sangho’s sophomore effort revolves around a town’s new church that is seducing worshippers with promises of miracles. When a violent man loses his family to ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2013
• 153min

‘Satyagraha’ is the philosophy of nonviolent resistance that was created by Mahatma Gandhi. It means “insistence on truth” in Hindi, but Gandhi used the movement to protest against injustice and oppression. The film reinterprets t...

Wide Angle

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 93min

What are labor movement leaders of the 1980s and ’90s doing today, 20 years later? This film begins with the daily lives of four middle-aged Korea Telecom laborer “ajussis.” They “live,” hanging off of utility poles, making repair...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 96min

This is the film that put Park Chul-soo’s name on the map. The woman in Room 301 is obsessed with eating and the one in Room 302 refuses to eat. When her husband loses interest in her, the woman in 301 cooks her husband’s pet. The...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 90min

Swordsman Iljimae travels to Japan in search of the CheonRyongGeom, a national treasure looted by the Japanese invader Kuroda. But two others are hunting Kuroda besides Iljimae: one-armed warrior Macheol, who lost his left arm to ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2013
• 134min

Some college students travel to the Caspian region for a camping trip and to participate in a kiteflying event during the winter vacation. By the bleak lakeside, there’s a restaurant, where three men are working as cooks. The thre...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 112min

Seopeonje unfolds in aback and fourth pattern, toggling between the past and present as we follow Dongho, an herbal medicine shop employee, on a visit to Sorijae pass. Years before a wandering singer called Yubong traveled around ...