New Currents

• Taiwan,Hong Kong,China
• 2012
• 110min

Five years has passed since the acclaim for Chang’s The End of the Tunnel, and this year he unveils , a feature film version of that short. Based on a true story of Yuhsiang, a blind pianist, the film opens with a scene where the ...

Wide Angle

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 150min

The relocation of an American Armed Forces base has put the very existence of a small town in Gyeonggi Province at risk. records the lives and memories of a group of women who are spending their later years in the area. The Korea...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 101min

This monumental biographical film chronicles the life and death of Reverend Ju Gicheol(1897~1944), one of the greatest Christian leaders in Korean history. The film dramatizes a series of key events between 1936 and his martyrdom...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2012
• 20min

When a transfer student is introduced and tells her new classmates she’s not looking for any friends, the ostracized Yoko immediately pursues a friendship with her. Transferring humorously and sympathetically depicts the warm burg...

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...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 106min

Kimjho Gwang-soo is one of the most recognized Korean gay activist as well as a filmmaker. This is his feature debut as a director and producer. A queer movie that delivers the goods?humorous and touching?and fulfills the director...

Special Programs in Focus

• Ukraina
• 2012
• 88min

Oksana leaves Ukrainian countryside and her fiance Anton to become an opera singer in the city. Soon the WWII broke out and while Oksana’s career took off, Anton becomes a war prisoner. After the war, the two get on the trains to ...

Wide Angle

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 15min

An elderly man longingly calls an elderly woman in the next neighborhood, and she delightedly answers him. The old lovers’ romance must be kept secret. They want to spend the rest of their lives together but can’t in a classic sto...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India,United States
• 2012
• 82min

Gulzar and his best buddy Afzal live in the war torn area of Kashmir and plan to run off to the city while Gulzar’s uncle is on a pilgrimage. But as soon as he leaves, martial law is declared in the village and their plans are pus...

Midnight Passion

• Lithuania,France,Belgium
• 2012
• 120min

Lucas is a scientist who works near the European experimental project that focus on advanced ‘human neuron research’. The project’s aim is to transfer neuron information from one human mind to another while enabling the recipient ...