Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 122min

“Palace, a place of insanity, and the lust and mad politics in it." This phrase clearly indicates the film′s personality. Confusing mixture of lust and politics is the real theme of this historical drama. It implies the lesson fro...

Wide Angle

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 13min

Young-ju returns to her father’s home after five years away. His various keepsakes and the traces of his life are difficult to face; her relationships exist only as memories the objects recall. Director Chung Ji-yun’s camera work ...

Wide Angle

• Japan,France
• 2012
• 45min

is a collection of memories and a goodbye by director Kawase Naomi for her late grandmother, the woman that raised her after she was separated from her parents at an early age. The grandmother that had been by her side since child...

World Cinema

• France,Senegal,Germany
• 2012
• 87min

Baye is a fisherman who provides for his happy family but he must make a difficult choice when he is offered work as the captain of a boat smuggling Senegalese refugees to Spain. By seasoned Senegal director Moussa Toure, is a ma...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2012
• 134min

If the only thing left after a massive disaster is hope, what could that hope be for? Sono Sion’s Land of Hope is a story about looking for hope where there is none. In Ohara village in Nakashima, Yoichi lives with his wife Izumi ...

Gala Presentation

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 90min

“Life starts in bed, finishes in bed.” is a drama of human relationship, and a new sexual report as well. Director Park Chul-soo, in his age of mid 60’s, searches for universal sexual imagination, deviation and desire which are c...

Wide Angle

• Japan,Korea
• 2011
• 133min

The Korean Peninsula, June 2000. The Inter-Korean Summit generates great expectations for unification. In Kawasaki, Japan, similar anticipation is brewing; Reverend Lee In-ha, having devoted his entire life to the Koreans residi...

Special Programs in Focus

• Hong Kong,China
• 2011
• 123min

[The14 Amazons] tells the story of a loyal and faithful family during the Song Dynasty?a story that has been repeatedly recounted in China and Hong Kong through literature, plays, television dramas, and films for years. The sing...

World Cinema

• the Netherlands
• 2011
• 86

19 year old Nick and 16 year old Evy are in love. Knowing that Nick is deaf, Evy’s parents do not consent totheir relationship. The young run away and move intoan abandoned submarine, hidden from judgmental eyes. Their runaway lov...

World Cinema

• Egypt
• 2011
• 125min

[18 Days] was the special Gala screening feature in Guest Country program, a newly established section of Cannes International Film Festival. This omnibus feature consists of ten short films about the Egyptian revolution that shoo...