Special Programs in Focus

• Mexico
• 2012
• 95min

A pickpocket who has been released from prison tries to start a new life but he cannot escape from the shadow of his past. While the main character is being haunted by his past and his nemesis, the director is stinging the corrupt...

Wide Angle

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 17min

When 11-year-old Yu-jung gets an early first period she immediately leaps to the incorrect conclusion that she’s dying and confides in her closest friend. But when the prettiest girl in the 6th grade professes her love for him, Y...

Midnight Passion

• United States
• 2012
• 85min

Small town radio personality Charlie Crowe is thrust into a mystery when a strange caller relates a terrifying experience during Crowe’s late night call-in show. At the same time, CDC Public Health Agent, Sophie is hot on the trai...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Malaysia
• 2012
• 82min

The family of a widowed mother comprises her and her three grown children. The widow is secretly seeing another man. The older daughter, who is married with two children, dreams of another life. The younger daughter, the only one ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2012
• 108min

This RMB 70 million (US$ 11million), state-approved blockbuster, starring Korean actress Park Ye-Jin and Japanese actor Nakaizumi Hideo, unfolds during Genghis Khan’s final conquest in the early 13th century. After bringing most o...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 108min

A local film worthy of notice, the monochrome is the fourth film by Jeju director O Muel. It is based on the true story of the townsfolk that took sanctuary in a cave during an uprising on the island in April 1948. The Jeju 4.3 U...

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2012
• 93min

Framed within a series of strange and shocking campfire tales, tells the story of Cullen Francis, a privileged young man whose life is upended by the sudden death of his mother. Months later on his twenty first birthday, his fath...

Wide Angle

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 28min

Suffocation is the word Director Kwon uses in a multilateral way to sum up the Korean society. The story begins with Jin-kyu frantically searching a public restroom with Chinese janitor Myong-ja for an envelope full of cash intend...

Wide Angle

• India,Japan,Italy,Denmark,Norway
• 2012
• 88min

The abandoned Char, an island suffering massive erosion due to the change in the river’s currents stemming from dam construction, lies between Bangladesh and India. The inhabitants’ only means of survival is supply grain and smugg...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 111min

is a ‘post-Failan′ created by rookie director Lee Duck-hee, the assistant director of Failan by Song Hae-seong. It is a moving human drama about the life, desire, frustration and dream of a small-time bully Chang-su, who often goe...