Wide Angle

• Australia
• 2013
• 76min

If the attendees of the Busan film festival’s parties suddenly turn their drinking preferences from soju to red wine, then Red Obsession will be the film to blame. This informative and entertaining documentary begins in France’s B...

Special Programs in Focus

• Kazakhstan
• 2013
• 98min

This postmodern drama’s main thrust is a game of and with cinematic and cultural symbols. The collapse of the Soviet Union is rendered as an apocalypse of sorts - the action takes place in a post-apocalypse, otherwise known as the...

Wide Angle

• Portugal
• 2013
• 30min

An audition searches for someone to re-create the character of Portugal’s legendary King Afonso. The audition starts off looking for musclemen that will show the King’s bravery. But as it continues, it becomes a search for the bod...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong,China
• 2013
• 116min

One-armed Swordsman is the monumental work and unprecedented box office hit that heralded the era of Chang Cheh. It is also a masterpiece and an exemplar of the Chang Cheh style. Chang rendered a tragic hero through a unique chara...

Open Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2013
• 145min

Known as food heaven, Taiwan has developed its cuisine culture from the natives’ food being influenced by the Chinese and Japanese, as well as by religion, regions and geography. Romantic comedy Zone Pro Site: The Moveable Feast t...

World Cinema

• Italy
• 2013
• 104min

Milan is affected by the economic crisis and Antonio, a middle-aged man, works as a substitute for people who have to leave their workplaces temporarily. He has to do any work given to him by a broker but he remains full of optimi...

• Venice Film Festival (In Competition)

Gala Presentation

• Japan
• 2013
• 135min

The Tokugawa shogunate has just collapsed and the Meiji Era is dawning in Japan, and former samurai Jubei is lying low and living as a father of two and a farmer in a secluded island in Hokkaido. One day, former friend Baba comes ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 88min

Sunhi arrives at school to pick up a recommendation letter to study abroad. She doesn’t like the letter, and runs into an ex-boyfriend who wants to get back together. When she returns to school to ask for a better recommendation, ...

World Cinema

• Mexico,Germany
• 2013
• 120min

After working for 30 years in Tijuana, Rafael and Lidia are set to retire. But Rafael is suddenly ineligible for a pension due to administrative mistakes in the past and Lidia’s dedication to her disabled mistress ends in insult w...

• Berlin Film Festival (Panorama)

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2013
• 104min

Daniel, an undercover agent for the German intelligence services, kills two neo-Nazis in a doomed operation against right-wing terrorists. After telling his supervisor that he wants to quit, he is told to lay low for a while in Ne...