Visitors

Hong SangSoos Lost in the Mountains South Korea 32min the visitor is the supremely selfcentred MiSook who drives to Jeonju on impulse to see her classmate JinYoung only to discover that her friend is having an affair with their married professor who MiSook once dated herself The level of social embarrassment goes off the scale In Naomi Kawases Koma Japan 34min Kang JunIl travels to a village in rural Japan to honour his grandfathers dying wish by returning a Buddhist scroll to its ancestral home Amid ancient superstitions a new relationship forms And in Lav Diaz Butterflies Have No Memories Philippines 42min homecoming queen Carol returns to the economically depressed former mining town she came from and becomes the target of an absurd kidnapping plot hatched by resentful locals Serving as his own writer cameraman and editor Diaz casts the film entirely from members of his crew and delivers a wellseasoned mix of social realism and fantasy bfi