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Opening Film
Humanity Vision
The section to introduce the directors and their works appealing to the humanity and nature beauty with an exquisite cinematic tact. This section will present 'smiling peace' to the audiences by reminding the importance of the peaceful coexistence, the human-rights enhancement and the nature conservation through a variety of themes and narratives.
World Vision
The section to provide the perspective about the on-going currents of the film culture and industry around the world, while giving the chance to look into the life of other countries. This section will present anticipated new films of the directors that have already proved their cinematic ability.
Family Cinema
The section to introduce the moving pictures concentrating on the family value and the community value and also provide the entertainment for the family audiences. This section will present the belief that the family peace based upon love and good communication will lead to village peace, then to national peace and finally to world peace.
Classic Films Special
The section to revisit the classic films giving comfort and relief for all ages. GIFF has been constantly introducing classic films with a variety of themes since 2001 and this has made the main festival character along with the introduction of political cinemas. Thus special section will provide the opportunity to rediscover and re-enjoy flavors of classic films.


Ealing Comedy Films
Ealing comedy is black comedy films made in Ealing Studio, England, after World War Ⅱ. These films were lead by the producer Michael Balcon and famous for their dark humor and sour criticism on social system and institution. This selection is four masterpieces of Ealing comedy films especially featuring the legendary actor, Alec Guiness.
2011 Gwangju Films Special
The section to look into the status quo of the current movie-making in Gwangju. Gwangju Independent Filmmakers Special introduces the recent works of directors active in Gwangju. And Gwangju Public Access Special is an annual program to introduce the works resulting from public access programs by Gwangju Community Media Center.
Special Screenings
Life-Is-Acting Program Course led by Lee Jeong-Guk, a director well-known for LETTER and BLUE, counts on the improvisional acting and directing. The short works made during this workshop is introduced.
Closing Film
KDJ Nobel Peace Film Award winner's film will be shown.

GIFF Proggrammer's Recommend
People Mountain People Sea
Director : Shangjun Cai / Country : China/HongKong / Runningtime : 90min / Make year : 2011
Tie knows in his heart that he must help find his younger brother's killer, despite his own problems. He has only recently come home penniless to the remote mountain community after years away working in the city. Because of his own negligence on a quarry job, he must pay off a large debt to the family of a now-disabled man. Although the police identified the murderer as ex-con Xiao from a neighboring village, they were not able to stop him from escaping. Tie decides to hunt down his brother's killer. He begins a journey which will unleash his long-suppressed inner pain and rage.


Amigo
Director : John Sayles / Country : USA / Runningtime : 124min / Make year : 2011
Beginning of the 20th Century, during the Philippine-American War. A garrison under the command of US Lieutenant Compton is left to ‘protect’ San Isidro, a remoted region located in the Philippines. Compton is fair and sympathetic, but his job is to pacify the area, not to make the natives happy. He can only communicate with Rafael, the Head of the barrio, through the Machiavellian friar Hidalgo who’s the only one to understand English and who bears a deep resentment towards Rafael.


Cold Weather
Director : Aaron Katz / Country : USA / Runningtime : 96min / Make year : 2011
After making a mess of his life in Chicago, Doug, a former forensic science major and avid reader of detective fiction, returns to his hometown of Portland, Oregon where he, his sister Gail and new friend Carlos become embroiled in a mystery.


EL BULLI: Cooking In Progress
Director : Gereon Wetzel / Country : Germany/Spain / Runningtime : 108min / Make year : 2011
The starred chef Ferran Adria is known as the best, most innovative and craziest cook in the world. In his always fully booked restaurant El Bulli, 50 persons are permitted to experience through 30 courses the split between his technical-conceptual cuisine and all conventions of culinary art as well as our general vision of cooking.
Every year, the restaurant closes for six months. During this time, Adria and his creative team retire to their cooking laboratory in Barcelona, to create a new menu for the following season. Everything is allowed - except of copying themselves.


Return Ticket
Director : Teng Yung Shing / Country : Taipei/China / Runningtime : 85min / Make year : 2011
Behind the glamour of Shanghai, there is an overlooked aspect of the city - migrant workers like Cao Li and Xie Qing from Anhui Provence. These are the women that keep the city's homes clean and do the families' shopping and cooking. The modest earnings can provide better education and brighter future for their children. The trip from Shanghai to Fuyang is only 600 kilometers. But going home is never as easy or as simple as it seems.


Tomboy
Director : Céline Sciamma / Country : France / Runningtime : 90min / Make year : 2011
There is definitely something boyish about ten-year-old Laure. She has recently moved to a new area with her parents and her little sister, Jeanne. It’s summertime and all the other neighbourhood children are playing outside – only Laure is alone, for she knows nobody of her own age. But then, one day, she meets Lisa, a girl who is exactly the same age. Laure allows her new acquaintance to believe that she is a boy.


Kind Hearts and Coronets
Director : Robert Hamer / Country : England / Runningtime : 106min / Make year : 1949
Edwardian England. On the eve of his execution, Louis D'Ascoyne Mazzini, tenth Duke of Chalfont, writes his account of the events leading up to his imprisonment.
Louis's father, an Italian opera singer, died immediately after his birth; his English mother was heiress to the Duchy of Chalfont, but her family disapproved of her marriage and she was disowned and disinherited. Impoverished and embittered, she ensured that Louis grew up well-versed in his ancestry. As a child, Louis fell in love with his classmate Sibella.


Lavender Hill Mob
Director : Charles Crichton / Country : England / Runningtime : 81min / Make year : 1951
Rio de Janeiro. In a plush bar, Henry Holland sits talking to another man. Several people - including pillars of the local community - pay their respects. Holland's companion congratulates him on his popularity. Holland begins to tell his story.
London, one year earlier. Holland is responsible for supervising deliveries of gold bullion from the refinery to the Bank of England. He has cultivated a reputation as an unimaginative fusspot, while secretly plotting to one day pull off a spectacular robbery - only one problem remains: how to get the gold out of the country.


The Man in The White Suit
Director : Alexander Mackendrick / Country : England / Runningtime : 85min / Make year : 1951
A Northern industrial town. Textile magnate Birnley remembers the crisis that recently beset his industry... Birnley tours a mill owned by his daughter Daphne's fiancé, Michael Corland, who hopes to attract his investment. Birnley comes upon some curious equipment in a laboratory, which none of the technicians can explain. An investigation reveals an invoice for £4,000, and Sidney Stratton, who ordered the equipment without permission, is sacked.


The Ladykillers
Director : Alexander Mackendrick / Country : England / Runningtime : 91min / Make year : 1955
The elderly Mrs Wilberforce leaves her rickety King's Cross house. At the police station, she explains that her friend Amelia's story of a flying saucer invasion was just a dream. The Superintendent thanks her and escorts her out.
A sinister figure follows her home, circling the house before ringing the doorbell. He introduces himself as Professor Marcus, enquiring about the rooms to let. He agrees to move in the next day. She happily agrees to allow him to use the rooms to rehearse his string quintet.