Makoto Ueda

Ryo reads a short story written by Banana Yoshimoto.

Set in mid-70's, 12-year old Dvir Avni navigates between the equality values of his home-born Kibbutz and the relationship with his undermined mother, whom the Kibbutz members will to denounce.

Jung-Hee (Kim Hye-Na) is a 21-year-old dancer who struggles with insecurities and other problems after her father abandoned her family 15 years ago. One day, Jung-Hee's brings back their father. Keun-Woo (Lee Sang-Woo) is a 25-year-old low level telephone technician. One day, his friend shows him a picture of a woman he is trying to extort money from. The woman is having an affair with a married man. Keun-Woo taps into the woman's telephone line and begins to eavesdrop on her conversations. After a few evenings, Keun-Woo falls in love with the woman, but the woman doesn't even know he exits. In-Ho (Kim Tae-Woo) is a 30-year-old soldier. He is about to be discharged from the military after serving for 2 years. In-Ho then gets his last leave of absence and decides to give his wife a surprise visit. When he arrives his wife isn't home. When he does finally see her his wife has changed and seems distant.

Finding himself in a house in the north of Iran by the Caspian Sea, the director picked up his handheld DV camera and began filming the seemingly anodyne events happening on the 500 metres of beach in front of his house—a piece of wood toyed with by the waves, people walking by the sea, indistinct shapes on a wintry beach or noisy ducks.

24 hours in Tehran. A traffic cop is interested in an actress, two old sourpusses terrorise the drug control lab, not everything a taxi driver says is the truth and a building worker seems to be in love.

Bajo el opresivo régimen talibán, la madre de una muchacha de 12 años, médico de profesión, pierde su empleo en un hospital y las dos mujeres, así como la abuela, se convierten en auténticas prisioneras en su propia casa, ya que no pueden abandonarla sin un «acompañante legal» y tienen prohibido trabajar fuera para ganarse la vida. La madre y la abuela urden un plan: le cortarán el pelo a la chica y cambiarán su indumentaria, para que parezca un muchacho. Asustada ante la posibilidad de que se descubra su secreto, la joven –que ha adoptado el nombre de Osama– empieza a trabajar para un tendero del vecindario, que fue amigo de su padre. Pero pronto llega a la edad de tener que acudir a la escuela islámica, y allí será más difícil ocultar su verdadera identidad.

A boy breaks a window at his school and sets out to fix it on his own during a storm.

Berlian and her teenage daughter Daya are on the run from political violence. Constantly daydreaming that her absent father will return, young Daya chafes under the stern hand of her mother. Forced to move inland from their seaside home to a desert of constantly shifting sands, the pair settle down to their familiar antagonism. Finally, Daya sees a vaguely familiar face shuffle in from across the wasteland.

City Loop tells the story of six young people who work in a pizzeria, as they struggle to comes to terms with boredom, fear of responsibility and pizzas to go

El suicidio de Yhongo sirve como acto de entrada a la retrospectiva de la historia de su vida, la cual entraña truncadas relaciones de amor, desventuras de un soldado o las vivencias de un cartero marcado por la guerra y la pérdida. Una historia que implica inevitablemente reflexión, pues los ojos de Yhongo nos adentran en la convulsa situación de Corea del Sur entre los años 1979 y 1999, sus secuelas y su reflejo en los habitantes. Película que recorrió varios festivales, obteniendo los premios a la mejor película y mejor director en los Grand Bell Awards.

Drama about a father who refuses to believe in his son's death at war.