A Window on Asian Cinema
Welcome to Shama TownShama Town is the fount of this story. It is a place where a Chinese Robin Hood makes a name and the hideout for a guerilla group called a bandit. The people of Shama Town earn their living by performing the heroic saga of the lea...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
Promise of the FleshThis film, a remake of Lee Man-hee’s Late Autumn(1966), reunited director Kim Ki-young and Jimi Kim. Suk-young(Jimi Kim), a model prisoner in her thirties, meets Hoon(Lee Jung-gil) on a train to her mother’s grave. As Hoon is purs...
Wide Angle
Incident by a BankAn account of a bank robbery: a single take where over 96 people perform for the camera. The inspiration was actually witnessed by Ruben Tlund and Erik Hemmendorff. Instead of calling the police, the two try to see what’s going on...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
Eul-hwaBased on Kim Dong-ree’s novel, this film exhibits a memorable, vibrant and passionate comeback performance from Jimi Kim following a long absence from the screen. Upon realizing that her son, Young-sul, has become a Christian, E...
Wide Angle
Doctor, Nurse and the PatientTo a man just woken up from coma, a nurse coldly announces his mother’s death. From then on, his doctor and the nurse meet mysterious deaths in turn. This revenge play deals with indifference to other human beings through tense ge...
Korean Cinema Today
Secret ReunionHangyu, a National Intelligence Service agent, Jiwon a North Korean agent sent south, meet again after six years since an unknown shoot-out occurred in the heart of Seoul. They both are aware they are each from their national agen...
Korean Cinema Today
MossRyu Hae-guk returns to his village to carry out his father’s funeral but is confronted with cautious gazes from the village people. With the village chief Yong-duk at the center of it all, the village people disrupt Ryu’s actions ...
World Cinema
ImaniA girl has to work as a prostitute to save her imprisoned sister who has been falsely accused. A hip-hop dancer comes back to his hometown to open a show but his friend disrupts his plan. A boy soldier cannot get rid of the horrib...
Wide Angle
Time of EveCan Androids fall in love and form a family? In the future of Japan, the human-like robots have come in use, whose appearance is districted from human only by its ring over the head. A high-school student Rikuo considers Androids ...
Special Programs in Focus
The Strange TripObtuse brother and sister Paquita and Venancio live with their oldest sister Ignacia in a small village near Madrid. One night, Paquita overhears Ignacia’s plan to sell the family home and go to Paris, leaving the two siblings beh...