Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2013
• 109min

There is a traditional butcher shop, where a family does it all, from the slaughter to sales. It is the Kitade Butcher Shop in Osaka, which is famous for providing great meat for over 100 years. As their slaughterhouse is demolish...

Wide Angle

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 95min

The film begins with stories about dreams. East Timor native Augustino remembers seeing his sick mother back home in his dream. Tarsila from Sri Lanka wakes up from dreaming about giving a tour of her homeland to Koreans. Phillip ...

World Cinema

• United States
• 2013
• 95min

An odd couple of sorts, Alvin, meditative and stern, and his girlfriend’s brother Lance, dopey and insecure, leave the city behind to spend the summer in solitude repainting traffic lines down the center of a country highway ravag...

• Berlin Film Festival - Silver Bear for Best Director

Midnight Passion

• Thailand
• 2013
• 114min

A Thai myth revives with contemporary sense of humor and horror romance. The film has broken box office record in Thailand. Mak is called for duty in a battle leaving his pregnant wife at home. After the war, he comes back home wi...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2013
• 15min

A young single mother raising a baby girl receives a financial offer for her to become a temporary wife of an unknown man. Even though it’s no different than prostitution, she accepts the offer for her daughter. While the film dea...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kazakhstan,Germany,France
• 2013
• 115min

Though it has the form of a coming of age film, the realities within Harmony Lessons are quite cruel. This first feature film by Emir Baigazin, a 2007 BIFF AFA fellow, is more of a psychodrama or social chastisement than a typical...

• 2013 Berlin Film Festival- AWARD FOR AN OUTSTANDING ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTION

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2013
• 105min

Conveying the passion of Japanese ultimate fighters and their lives, this film follows these high-octane wrestlers as they are about to participate in a Pancrase Tournament in March, 2013, and examines their dreams and hopes. In o...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 109min

When his father dies, a film director returns to his rural hometown. There is quite a bit of commotion in the ensuing family reunion. While the funeral is held in the Confucian way, some relatives sing hymns, and his troublesome d...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 112min

Involved in a scandalous accident, high school girl Han Gong-ju is forced to change schools. Her parents cannot look after her, so she stays at the home of her new teacher’s mother. Her new friend Eunhee finds that Gong-ju is a go...

New Currents

• Iran,Iran
• 2013
• 74min

A short meeting between a TV commercial film director and a lonely old man. Their meeting was fleeting, but the old man’s lifelong loneliness leaves a strong impression on the director. TV Commercial film director, Farhad goes in ...