Jeon Young Seon

Born in 1953. Her father is Jeon Oh Seung, a composer, and her aunt is Na Ae Shim, a singer and movie star. In 1958, when she was 5 years old at the recommendation of the assistant director Hong Eun Won, a friend of her aunt's, she entered the film industry by appearing in Director Lee Kang Cheon's…

Nau

Lee Na Woo, known professionally as Nau or Lee Nau, is a South Korean pianist and former member of PURPLE RAIN (퍼플레인). He graduated from Seoul Arts High School and later moved to Germany, where he attended the Music program at Munich University and later at Münster University but took a leave…

Kurosawa Hisako

Kurosawa Hisako was born and raised in Fukushima, Japan, and completed a bachelor’s degree in Japanese literature. She began her career as a broadcast journalist, but was drawn to screenwriting, where she found early success with Tokyo Noir (2004), Finger (2006) and Show Me A Beautiful Night (2007).…

Vicky Wong

Vicky Wong Wai Kit is a Hong Kong film director. He co-directed the 2016 film Trivisa, produced by Hong Kong film director Johnnie To, and screenwriter Yau Nai Hoi. Trivisa has won numerous awards including Best Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Actor, Best Director and Best Picture at the 36th Hong Kong…

Choi Seung Yoon

Choi Seung Yoon is a dancer, choreographer and actor based in Seoul, South Korea. She began training in ballet at the age of five and has a BA degree in dance from Ewha Womans University. Early in her career, Choi produced and performed in her own dance productions that received grants from Arts Council…

Baek Seung Bin

Born in 1977. Majored in Film at the Korean Academy of Film Arts. He?began to receive critics’ attention when his short film based on John Fowles’ novel, ''The French Lieutenant’s Woman''(2007), won the Best Film in The Extreme Nightmare section at the Mise-en-scene Short Film Festival. His movie,…

Aoyama Shinji

Born in Fukuoka, Aoyama Shinji is a film and stage director and screenwriter. He made his feature debut with Helpless (1996) and won the FIPRESCI Award and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the Cannes Film Festival for his film Eureka (2000). His film Desert Moon (2001) was invited to compete at the…

Mori Tatsuya

Mori Tatsuya was born in Hiroshima Prefecture in 1956 and studied at Rikkyo University. In 1986, he began working for a TV production company. He then went freelance, shooting two documentaries about the Omu Shinrikyo sect, entitled A (1998) and A2 (2001). A was shown at the Berlin International Film…

Anthony Chen

Anthony Chen is a Singaporean film director, screenwriter and film producer. He has directed two feature films Ilo Ilo (2013) and Wet Season (2019). Anthony enrolled in Ngee Ann Polytechnic’s School of Film and Media Studies at the early age of 17 to pursue his passion for filmmaking. His second short…

Im Sang Soo

Im Sang Soo majored in Sociology at Yonsei University and studied film at the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA). From his feature debut" Girls’ Night Out", "Tears", "A Good Lawyer’s Wife" to "The President’s Last Ban", he has depicted the liberal sexual desires or the hounding political restlessness…

The Guerilla Is a Poet

10.0

Based on the life of Jose Maria Sison, a Filipino revolutionary who is now in exile in Europe. This film explores a tumultuous decade in Philippine history when Sison, a young intellectual and teacher founded the Communist…

Small Talk

7.0

A family story of a very special kind. The mother earns a living as a spirit guide for the deceased at their funerals: she was never at home, always out and about with her girlfriends instead. The daughter now goes…

Day is Done

A family on a rare visit to their grandfather. They cook lunch, set the table and sit down to eat together. “Come and show me your film,” he asks his grandson who will soon be going to study in faraway Russia.…

The Red Filter is Withdrawn

Numerous colonial places, including coastal caves and military bunkers on many Oreums (small volcanoes inside a main volcanic crater) as well as memories of uprisings and massacres are found in every corner of Jeju…

Scala

First, the chandelier is dismantled in the foyer, each string of lamps lowered to the floor one by one. The other retro light fittings come later, after the curtain that lines the walls of the auditorium has been pulled…

Trip After

In the 1960s, the United States Information Service (USIS) mobile film units travelled around the northeast region of Thailand showing their self-produced propaganda films to rural audiences as part of a psychological…

Xiao Hui and His Cows

Far away from his parents, Xiao Hui lives with his grandfather in the mountains. When a calf is to be sold, the witty nine-year-old does everything in his power to prevent the separation of mother and child. A soulful…

The Rapture of Fe

6.5

Caught between her violent husband and a dithering young lover, Fe's life takes an unexpected turn when baskets of black fruits begins mysteriously appearing at her door. At first, the enigma is endearing, but soon…

The Perilous Odyssey to Mount Gulsuk

When the life of his pregnant girlfriend is threatened by a mysterious illness, Joseph, a reluctant teenage father-to-be, embarks on a spirit-breaking quest to save his beloved and their unborn child. His surreal odyssey…

Now.Here

Wen Hui believes he was born to be a goalkeeper, even though nobody remembers how he first got into football. The odds of saving a penalty are against him, but he knows that when confusing events happen, there is comfort…