A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand
• 2013
• 117min

A film about an opportunity for forgiveness and reconciliation brought about by chance. Stories of love and hate between a daughter and a father, and two couples come together as one. Middleaged Orn held a grudge all her life agai...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 108min

Ji-sook, a teahouse owner in a seaside town, hires three ladies: Miss Hong has money trouble because of her father’s medical expenses; the frivolous Miss Yang is a would-be actress; and the innocent Miss Yoon is not only her famil...

World Cinema

• Austria,France,Germany
• 2013
• 91min

Paradise: Hope, the Ulrich Seidl’s third film in the Paradise trilogy, tells the story of the 13-year-old Melanie. While her mother travels to Keyna, Melanie spends her holiday in the Austrian countryside at a strict diet camp for...

• Berlin Film Festival (In Competition)

Flash Forward

• United States,Sweden
• 2013
• 91min

In his striking and moving debut feature Bluebird, writer/director Lance Edmands explores the interconnectedness of a small town in the northern reaches of Maine. When Lesley, the local school bus driver, becomes distracted during...

New Currents

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 97min

Forbidden love doesn’t include only immoral intimacy. If a woman in her forties loves a 17-year old male that could also be forbidden. Forty-something, screenwriter Gaeul, lives with a 17-year old. Her family cannot understand any...

World Cinema

• Italy,Switzerland,France
• 2013
• 91min

On their way to the wedding in Palermo by driving, two friends get lost. They reach deadend and encounter a family in a car. Neither driver is willing to give way to the other, and as day gives way to night, both abandon all ratio...

• Venice Film Festival Volpi Cup (Best Actress)

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2013
• 96min

Mariam and Reja are mentally handicapped couple, with a son named Soheil, a fourth grader in an elementary school. Through poorly off, they have a happy life, laughing and making noisy merriments like a group of pals, rather than ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2013
• 120min

In the first feature of Laxman Utekar, after he cinematographed three independent films, the protagonist comes back to his hometown after a long time in order to participate in the funeral of the postman who was his childhood frie...

Flash Forward

• Greece
• 2013
• 98min

In a story about a distorted family that reflects the current crisis in Greece, Angeliki jumps to her death from her balcony on her 11th birthday. While the police and Social Services try to discover the reason for this apparent s...

• Venice Film Festival Silver Lion Award, Venice Film Festival Volpi Cup (Best Actor)

Flash Forward

• Belgium,Netherlands
• 2013
• 83min

The end to his partner’s lingering illness is the catalyst that sends a Belgian man on a quest for salvation in Romania’s barren wasteland. Losing himself in an animalistic existence that leads to madness, he allows his the past t...

• BUSAN Bank Award Candidate