New Currents

• Iran,Turkey
• 2015
• 88min

Aseke is a member of a group of young people on a mission to propagate Kurdish culture in Turkey, where doing so is prohibited by law. While taking part in this dangerous underground activity, Aseke meets her untimely death. In an...

New Currents

• France,Switzerland,Belgium,Lebanon
• 2015
• 110min

A film about a woman who must struggle against the precariousness of her own memories. Nada, who lives in France, returns home to Lebanon. Her grandfather has been murdered by people in the village, and she thinks his body is buri...

New Currents

• India
• 2015
• 83min

This film tells the story of Arunachalam, an old man alienated from his children. All his life, Arunachalam has worked in a cotton mill, and the only happiness he has is listening to music on a radio that was handed down to him by...

New Currents

• Japan
• 2015
• 125min

West North West depicts the story of young people who have lost a sense of direction in their lives. For them, “empathy” is more important than “understanding.” The film mostly revolves around a lesbian couple, Kei and Ai. Kei wor...

New Currents

• Korea
• 2015
• 103min

This black and white film with a 4:3 aspect ratio unfolds following an abnormal couple. An eight-minute long take intro doesn’t show the main character’s face, but shows the other woman’s face, who keeps asking questions. One of t...

New Currents

• Iran
• 2015
• 94min

Young Ebrahim lives with his grandfather Ayaz, a guilt-ridden old man, who suffers unbearably following the loss of his family in an accident. His remorse is not without reason; Ayaz was driving the bus on the way back home from a...

New Currents

• Korea
• 2015
• 235min

Chinese director Wang Bing is well known for TieXiQu: West of the Tracks, his nine-hour documentary. Korean film critic Jung Sung-il is famous for long, prolix film reviews. So it is no surprise that this film’s intro?over four ho...

New Currents

• Kazakhstan
• 2015
• 81min

Walnut Tree is film about a wedding that introduces, with compassion, warmth, and laughter, the everyday lives of people living in a small village in Kazakhstan. The wedding ceremony is not at all a small or trivial event, but a f...