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Open to films by contemporary male directors which take women and gender issues in considerate and thoughtful way. In the 14th film festival, we will meet women who stay independent under all circumstances and who try to live their life to the fullest such as a woman living as a man, a young mom who entered the parenting war, a female political leader, and a girl overcoming the traumatic past.

 
 
Film List (4)
 
Albert Nobbs
 Director : Rodrigo GARCIA
 Ireland | 2011 | 113' | 35mm | color | Drama

Synopsis Award winning actress Glenn Close plays a woman caught in an unusual love triangle. Passing as a man in order to work and survive in 19th century Ireland, some thirty years after donning men’s clothing, she finds ..

A Happy Event
 Director : Remi BEZANCON
 France, Belgium | 2011 | 107' | 35mm | color | Drama

Synopsis “She drove me into a corner, then forced me to go beyond my limits. She made me confront the absolute: love, sacrifice, tenderness, abandonment. She dislocated me, transformed me. Why didn’t anyone warn me? Why d ..

The Lady
 Director : Luc BESSON
 France, UK | 2011 | 132' | D-Cinema | color | Drama

Synopsis The Lady is a story about Aung San Suu Kyi and Michael ARIS as well as an epic poem about a peaceful struggle of a woman who stood in the center of the Burmese democratic movement. Their love is not been weakened ..

Re-encounter
 Director : MIN Yong-keun
 Korea | 2010 | 108' | 35mm | color | Drama

Synopsis Hye-hwa is as an assistant to a veterinarian, and spends lots of her time saving abandoned animals. One day, while Hye-hwa is trying to save a dog, she sees Han-soo standing in front of her. They were a couple in l ..