As time goes by, Asian films are increasingly becoming more important throughout the cinematic world. Seoul International Film Festival promotes the people’s growing interest and networking in Asian films. That is the goal of the Asisn in Focus section.
To make it more meaningful, film critics and film festival directors from Asian countries have participated in the process of selecting ‘5 Best’ films. The Korean film critic CHUNG Sung-il, Tokyo International Film Festival’s former programmer Teruoka Sozo Tokyo, and the Cinemaya editor-in-chief Latika Padgaokar were kind enough to participate in the process. 		 
 
 
   
Blind Mountain
 
Li Yang / China / 102min
 
A remote region in North China, a perky student Bai Xuemei has come to earn money to help her family. Traveling to a tiny village in a mountain-ringed valley with the manager of a herbal....
 
 
 
   
Bliss
 
Abdullah Oğuz / Turkey / 126min
 
Meryem is found unconscious by a lake. Her family thinks that she has had her chastity corrupted, and decides on killing her by the necessity of customs.
 
 
 
   
Betina
 
Lola Amaria / Indonesia / 70min
 
In an unnamed village somewhere in Indonesia, a young woman works at the local dairy farm. Surrounded by lecherous men and an inattentive mother, Betina longs....