Korean Cinema Today
WRITTENA wakes up in a tub, realizing one of his kidneys is gone. While A is trying to retrieve his missing kidney, he meets a writer and learns that he is just a character of an unfinished film and he will meet an actor who will play A ...
Special Programs in Focus
13 TZAMETI22 year old Sebastian is a house repairman who has nothing going on in his life with poor family to support. While he is at his work, he finds a letter, intended for someone else, with a train ticket and a set of instruction to pa...
Wide Angle
146 - 73 = Screen Quota + Korea-US FTAPresident Roh Moo-Hyun breached his election pledge to maintain the Screen Quota and reduced it from 146 to 73 days. Because Korean government and capitals, and the trans-national capital and US government share the benefits of it...
A Window on Asian Cinema
4:30Director Royston Tan refers to 4:30 a.m. as the loneliest time because it is too late to sleep and too early to wake, and the film earnestly describes that solitude. However the subject who speaks of it is different from other fil...
Wide Angle
798“Dashanzi 798,” a neighborhood in Beijing, has a reputation as a mecca for Chinese contemporary art. However, that is a reputation that has emerged only in the past few years. Shen Xiaomin portrays the lives of artists who work an...
New Currents
The Summer of SticklebackA modest yet ambitious feature debut by director Nakamura Mayu, who works in Japan and the US, describes the wandering years of high school girl Mizuho in `90s Kyoto. She doesn`t get along with her mother and rather depends on her...
Opening Film
Traces of LovePassing a juridical examination, Hyun-woo proposes to his long-time lover Min-joo. Hyun-woo is, however, late for an appointment with Min-joo. She shops at a department store while waiting for him, and tragically dies in an accide...
Midnight Passion
The HeirloomTwenty years ago, an inexplicable mass suicide occurred in the millionaire Yang household, where entire household hanged to their deaths at the exact same hour, place and height. Twenty years alter, distant relative James inherits...
Korean Cinema Today
Family Ties[Family Ties] consists of three stories of mutually related families. In the first story, Mira`s brother Hyungchul has not had any contact with her for five years. One day, he unexpectedly shows up with Musin, his girlfriend who a...
Wide Angle
People Crossing the RiverFrom the observer`s point of view, this documentary describes the time that has elapsed between Korea and Japan, the road traveled by the people that have lived the history, and the encounter of the people from both countries tryi...