Wide Angle

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 20min

The family preparing for their grandfather’s ancestral offering, forget to buy bean sprouts. Like Abbas Kiarostami’s Where Is My Friend’s House, a girl gets lost on her way to market. She ends up in a house of an old man in a stra...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2013
• 109min

The seventh feature of Director Chang Tso-chi, post-Taiwan New Wave leader, this film is about a city boy who spends his summer vacation at a rural community not far from Taipei. Xiaobao, a sixth grader in elementary school is sen...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2013
• 146min

At first, Queen takes a classical style of storytelling favored by Bollywood. Rani is a 24-year-old Punjabi woman. Her family is conservative. Her brother escorts her everywhere for her ‘safety’. But when her wedding is cancelled ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Ireland
• 2013
• 112min

Neil Jordan’s landmark film remains one of the key Irish films of the last 20 years. A skillfully written examination of race, gender and national politics that questions the audience’s assumptions and behaviours just as it does t...

Flash Forward

• Canada
• 2013
• 84min

CLYDECYNIC is a tale of dysfunctional relationships, misplaced anger and of the search for one’s place in the world. Clyde wants to be good. But he is not. Stuck in a mentally and physically abusive relationship with his father, C...

• BUSAN Bank Award Candidate

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India,Germany,Netherlands,France
• 2013
• 109min

In 1947, a Sikhs’ village in the Punjab on the India-Pakistan border is dreary, because of the partition-independence issue. Umber, a Sikh, flees to southern part of India, leaving his family’s traditional home. When Kanwar, his f...

Wide Angle

• Sweden
• 2013
• 15min

Goren lives with his wife, doing simple labor. By chance, he learns about the Kilimanjaro, which promises to give “the best moment of one’s life.” Goren’s dull, repetitive existence becomes lively again as he hopes to find the Kil...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2013
• 73min

This omnibus film was directed by four upcoming Taiwanese directors with each partner director from South Korea, France, Chile and Iran. Not knowing each other previously, these young directors get together in Taipei to collaborat...

World Cinema

• Canada,France
• 2013
• 92min

In this psychological thriller of Stockholm Syndrome, mourning and latent violence permeate a story of lies and imposters. A young ad executive travels to the country for a funeral of his friend and discovers that no one there kno...

• Venice Film Festival (In Competition)

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 107min

Actor Park Joong-hoon makes his directorial debut with this tale of a talent manager, Taeshik, who is discovered as an actor himself and sees his success quickly surpass that of his prior client. But Taeshik is compelled to hold o...