Wide Angle

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 26min

In despair of selling her nail shop and getting evicted, Choa goes to the zoo with her exboyfriend, Seogi. Although Choa is hungry, he keeps taking pictures for others and giving directions to foreigners. Seogi then ruins their ro...

Special Programs in Focus

• Tajikistan
• 2013
• 132min

In the ancient city of Bukhara with its inhabitants, a new city is created and a model of humanity is trapped in an irreconcilable struggle between the new and the old. The new is built on the ruins of the past, without any respec...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 135min

Lee Mong-ryong, a local officer’s 16-year old son, loves Chun-hyang, the daughter of a former gisaeng, and promises her life-long companionship. After leaving home, Mong-ryong distinguishes himself in his studies and wins the titl...

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2013
• 104min

What if life were a game? And terrible things could be conjured up by declaring them “just for fun”? Ada could warm to this idea. The brainy but abrasive 15-year-old high-school outsider usually takes the sassy way out of life’s a...

Midnight Passion

• Germany
• 2013
• 110min

Young Tore belongs to the Jesus Freaks, a Christian punk movement rebelling against established religion whilst at the same time following Jesus′ precepts of love. One day, in what appears to be a miracle, Tore manages to repair a...

• Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard)

Open Cinema

• China
• 2013
• 121min

This is a cross between a murder mystery, and at the same time a powerful drama with conflict between strong characters in the legal world. Evidence and truth, existence of the real criminal and questionable witnesses appear in tu...

Gala Presentation

• India
• 2013
• 151min

Mani Ratnam’s epic drama about salvation and forgiveness shows charisma and brilliant imagery. The story begins with the long and ill-fated relationship between two theology students, Sam Fernando and Bergman. When he begins his p...

World Cinema

• Israel,France
• 2013
• 93min

In 1989, Israeli soldiers are sent to Gaza to oversee the Arab population. During a routine patrol, one of them gets killed by a washing machine thrown from one of the village′s houses. Four young soldiers are then stationed on th...

• Berlin Film Festival (Panorama)

World Cinema

• Hungary,Germany,France,Austria
• 2013
• 110min

In Hungary, toward the end of WWII, twin teenaged boys are left with their ill-tempered grandmother away from the dangers of the hunger stricken city. An alcoholic with a violent temper, the grandmother abuses the boys and works t...

• Karlovy Vary International Film Festival - Grand Prix

New Currents

• Thailand,Hong Kong,China
• 2013
• 99min

“The age of dejection.” This is how Director Lee Chatametikool remembers Thailand in 1997. Concrete Cloud is a film that tells us about the young men who survived an era of financial crisis. Mutt, who is working as a stockbroker i...