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  OKI'S MOVIE

Drama

Directed by HONG Sangsoo
(HAHAHA, NIGHT AND DAY, A TALE OF CINEMA)

Starring LEE Sunkyun (PAJU, TV Series COFFEE PRINCE), JUNG Yumi (CHAW, CAFE NOIR)

Country of Production: Korea

Synopsis: Four different stories replenish and distinguish one another in one film, eventually revealing an amazing niche of life.
 
 
  71-Into The Fire

Drama

Directed by John H.LEE(SAYONARA ITSUKA, A MOMENT TO REMEMBER)

Starring KWON Sang-woo(FATE, LOVE, SO DIVINE), CHOI Seung-hyun (a.k.a T.O.P of BIG BANG)(IRIS, TV), CHA Seung-won(EYE FOR AN EYE, BLOOD RAIN)

Country of Production: Korea

Synopsis: A story of 71 student soldier trainees who fought an impossible war against seasoned North Korean army during Korean War which broke out in 1950.
 
 
  POETRY

Drama

Directed by LEE Changdong
(PEPPERMINT CANDY, OASIS, SECRET SUNSHINE)

Starring YUN Jung-hee(MANMUBANG)

Country of Production: Korea

Synopsis: A profound story of an elderly woman in search of the fundamental poetry from her life. Aside from being sentenced with an Alzheimer’s disease, she faces another dilemma when her teen-aged grandson who is under her care is found to be one of the assaulters of a girl from his junior-high school who had committed suicide.

 
 
  HAHAHA

Drama

Directed by HONG Sangsoo(LIKE YOU KNOW IT ALL, NIGHT AND DAY)

Starring KIM Sangkyung(A TALE OF CINEMA, MEMORIES OF MURDER),
YU Junsang(LIKE YOU KNOW IT ALL)

Country of Production: Korea

Synopsis: Not realizing that they were in the same place, at the same time, and with the same people, two men's reminiscene of a hot summer unfolds like a catalogue of memories.
 
 
  HEARTY PAWS 2

Drama

Directed by LEE Jeong-chul (A FAMILY)

Starring SONG Joong-ki (WHERE THE TRUTH LIES), SUNG Dong-il (TAKE OF, 200 POUNDS BEAUTY), KIM Jung-tae (INSADONG SCANDAL), Dal (HEARTY PAWS)

Country of Production:Korea

Synopsis: Thinking that Dong-wook is too occupied with Hearty, his late father’s gift, rather than focusing on his studies, his mother sends Hearty and her puppies to her brother’s place. One night, burglars steal Hearty’s pups and the chase begins for Hearty, smarter than the humans, to get back her young while Dong-wook desperately searches for her.
 
 
  MY DEAR DESPERADO

Romance, Drama

Directed by KIM Kwang-sik (Feature Debut)

Starring PARK Joong-hoon (NOWHERE TO HIDE, TWO GUYS), JUNG Yu-mi (OKI’S MOVIE, CHAW)

Country of Production:Korea

Synopsis: Local gangster Dong-chul who is better at talking than fighting suddenly has finds himself with a small young woman as his neighbor next door. However rather than being intimidated, she stands against him. And they start their somewhat fierce relationship as housemates.
 
 
  I SAW THE DEVIL

Hard-boiled Thriller

Directed by KIM Jee-woon (THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE WEIRD, A BITTERSWEET LIFE)

Starring LEE Byung-hun(G.I.JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA, THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE WEIRD), CHOI Min-sik(SYMPATHY FOR LADY VENGEANCE, OLD BOY)

Country of Production:Korea
Synopsis: Kyung-chul is a psychopath who kills for pleasure. One day, a victim’s finance, a top secret agent Soo-hyun tracks him down by becoming a monster himself.
 
 
  ENEMY AT THE DEAD END

Thriller

Directed by Owen CHO, KIM Sang-hwa (Feature Debut)

Starring CHUN Ho-jin(I SAW THE DEVIL), YOO Hae-jin(MOSS, WOOCHI)

Country of Production: Korea
Synopsis: A post-traumatic stress disorder patient bounded to his bed, finds himself sharing his room with a gang looking paralyzed amnesia patient. And he must kill him off before he is recognized.
 
 
  CARANCHO

Drama, Action

Directed by Pablo TRAPERO(LION’S DEN, BORN AND BRED)

Starring Ricardo DARIN (SON OF THE BRIDE, NINE QUEENS, XXY),
Martina GUSMAN(LION’S DEN, EL BONAERENSE)

Country of Production:Argentina

Synopsis:With a backdrop of a social description of the petty business made up in the shadows of Public Health and Welfare, a love story between a man and a woman, immersed in market where disgrace is the currency.
 
 
  BEDEVILLED

Thriller

Directed by JANG Cheol-soo (Feature Debut)

Starring SEO Young-hee (JEALOUSY IS MY MIDDLE NAME, THE CHASER),
JI Sung-won

Country of Production: Korea
Synopsis: Sick of all the inhumane treatment by others, Bok-nam takes a sickle in her hand for revenge.
 
 
  HELLO MURDERER

Drama

Directed by KIM Dong-uk (Feature Debut)

Starring YU O-Sung (CHAMPION, FRIEND), KIM Dong-wook (TV Series COFFEE PRINCE), SHIM Eun-Kyung (HANSEL AND GRETEL)

Country of Production:Korea

Synopsis: In a town, strange murders against women occur whenever it rains, but the police cannot seem to find the culprit. When the police offer a reward for whoever finds the serial killer, out-of-work Young-seok searches for the killer to get money for his only daughter’s tuition.
 
 
  MISS STAFF SERGEANT

Comedy, Action

Directed by CHO Myung-nam (A BOLD FAMILY)

Starring SON Byung-ho (INSADONG SCANDAL, THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE WEIRD), LIM Won-hee (DACHIMAWA LEE), LEE A-I

Country of Production:Korea

Synopsis: LEE Yoo-mi is the first female NCO(non-commissioned officer) to finish top of the Marine Corps training course that is difficult to complete even for most men. She applies for the Force Recon, the Marine Corps’s special operations forces but finds herself in a challenging position to earn the men’s respect.

 
 
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