David Verbeek

David Verbeek is a Dutch director. He has studied film, photography and philosophy at the New School University in New York, and film directing at the Netherlands Film Academy, where he graduated in 2005. During his studies he completed his first feature, Beat (2004), which was selected for IFFR. After…

Liang Ming

Born in Yichun, northeast China's Heilongjiang province. Enrolled at the Communication University of China in 2002, majoring in performance arts in the Department of Director Performance. Cast in the movie, "Spring Fever", directed by Lou Ye (included in the Main Competition section, at the 62nd Cannes…

Sawai Takako

Sawai Takako is a Japanese actress born in Osaka. Her sister is the actress Sawai Keiko. She worked at the Yajima Satoko office, and belongs to the Takarai Project. In 1964, when she was in the third year of junior high school, she moved to Tokyo with her sister who entered the entertainment world.…

Wang Chao

Wang Chao is a Chinese director, screenwriter and producer born in Nanjing China. Wang began his career serving as an assistant director to the fifth generation auteur, Chen Kai Ge, working with the elder director on epics like Farewell My Concubine and The Emperor and the Assassin. At the same time,…

Fukada Koji

Fukada Koji is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Born in Tokyo, Fukada had a father who was a film aficionado and he watched many films on VHS when he was young. It was when he was 19 years old studying at Taisho University and discovered the Film School of Tokyo that he began taking evening…

Mark Lee

Lee Ping Bin joined Taiwan’s major film studio Central Motion Pictures Corp. as a camera assistant in 1977. He was involved in the early, pioneering days of the Taiwanese New Wave. Since “A Time to Live and A Time to Die,”(1985) Lee has collaborated with Hou Hsiao Hsien on “Dust in the Wind,”(1986)…

Joei Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Apichatpong Weerasethakul, nicknamed Joei, is an independent film director, screenwriter, and film producer born in Bangkok to a Thai-Chinese family. His parents were both physicians and worked in a hospital in Khon Kaen, Thailand. Apichatpong attended Khon Kaen University and received a bachelor's…

Nakata Hideo

Nakata was born in Okayama, Japan. He is most familiar to Western audiences for his work on Japanese horror films such as Ring (1998), Ring 2 (1999), and Dark Water (2002). Several of these were remade in America as The Ring (2002), Dark Water (2005), and The Ring Two. Nakata was scheduled to make his…

Hong Sang Soo

Hong Sang Soo began his film career at Chung-Ang University in South Korea, before moving to the United States where he received his bachelor's degree from the California College of Arts and Crafts and his master's degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Hong made his official directorial…

Karry Wang

Wang Jun Kai (English name: Karry), born in Chongqing, is a Chinese singer, dancer, actor, model, and leader of the Chinese boy group TFBOYS. Karry graduated from Beijing Film Academy. In 2010, at the age of 11, Karry was chosen as a trainee under times Fengjun Entertainment. He trained as the first…

Call of Lobster

Yung Fu, a middle-aged man struggling with his failing lobster business, seizes an unexpected opportunity when he hears about North Korea's lobster farming troubles. He writes a letter to Kim Jong Un, expressing his…

The Great Passage

7.9

Mitsuya Majime is an unsuccessful salesman. But his love of reading and dedication, as well as a post-graduate degree in linguistics, catches the eyes of Masashi Nishioka and Kouhei Araki, dictionary editors who are…

Alienoid: Return to the Future

7.8

I An is stuck in the past while trying to stop an alien prisoner from escaping a human body. After many obstacles, she finds a new weapon that can open a time door and saves Thunder. Meanwhile, Mu Reuk is confused…

Blood Free

8.0

Ending millions of years of humans eating animal meat, BF now dominates the genetically engineered cultured meat market. There are people inside BF and outsiders who begin to have doubts about the path taken by BF…

Blueming

8.0

Since childhood, Cha Si Won has realised that only people with good looks will grow to be popular, and he has made it a personal goal to achieve popularity by maintaining a strict personal regime and adopting a pleasant…

The Slave Hunters

8.0

Chuno follows the story of Lee Dae Gil, a man of high birth, whose family was ruined when Won Ki Yoon, a slave, burnt down his house and escaped with his sister, Un Nyun, who was in love with Dae Gil. Driven by his…

Dear X

8.1

Baek A Jin grew up enduring domestic violence, forcing her to hide her emotions and survive by reading and manipulating others. Outwardly, she appears generous and kind, but when her ambitions are threatened, her darker…

The King's Affection

8.3

Set during the Joseon Dynasty, the story follows twins born to the Crown Princess Consort, who orders the death of the daughter due to superstition. To save her, the baby girl is secretly sent away. Years later, Dam…

Mercy for None

8.3

Nam Gi Jun was once a key member of the Bongsan Gang, led by Koo Bong San. He fought through bloody turf wars, helping the gang rise to power. But everything changed when his younger brother, Nam Gi Seok, joined their…

The WONDERfools

8.5

Set against the backdrop of 1999, when widespread doomsday fears gripped the public, the story follows the unexpected rise of unlikely heroes in Haeseong City. Eun Chae Ni, a spirited and unpredictable young woman…