New Currents

• Japan
• 2016
• 95min

Maybe it is possible for a victim to forgive a perpetrator. But would it be possible for both of them to understand each other? Sato Yoshinori’s Her Mother tells the story of a mother who state of mind becomes increasingly complic...

New Currents

• China
• 2016
• 93min

Wang Xuebo’s debut feature film focuses on the mutual understanding between a man and a cow. In a mountain village in Ningxia, China, where the Hui people live, old man Majishan’s wife passes away, and his family decides to do a p...

New Currents

• China,Hong Kong,China
• 2016
• 108min

A portrait of modern people who have forgotten how to converse, Someone to Talk to is Liu Yulin’s feature film debut and was based on the book of the same title by Liu Zhenyun. Cobbler Aiguo is in conflict with his wife, while his...

New Currents

• Korea
• 2016
• 101min

Mo Geumsan, a barber living in the countryside, is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Up to now, he has lived a routine life: He wakes up, works at the barbershop, exercises in the swimming pool, and drinks at the same bar every d...

• 2016 ACF Post-Production Fund

New Currents

• India
• 2016
• 115min

A film that questions the idea of “filmmaking” in a chaotic age, an age of division and conflict in Indian society. To Hari, born to a Muslim father and a Hindu mother, India is an achromatic society. Thanks to his parents, who me...

New Currents

• France,SriLanka,Netherlands,Qatar
• 2016
• 84min

Set in a small northern Sri Lankan village in 1989, Burning Birds is a film critical of society. Director Sanjieewa Pushpakumara considers this society in which social violence is inflicted upon a female breadwinner. After an ille...

New Currents

• China
• 2016
• 105min

The Donor describes the dark side of modern Chinese society by telling a story where the good will to protect a family brings about tragedy after all. Yang Ba is not able to give financial support to his family and decides to sell...

New Currents

• Iran,Afghanistan
• 2016
• 78min

Having moved from Afghanistan to Iran with his family at the age of six, Parting is Navid Mahmoudi’s debut feature film, which explores the ongoing tragedy of illegal immigrants from Afghanistan. Nabi and Fereshteh are in love but...

New Currents

• Taiwan
• 2016
• 95min

The debut feature film by Chu Hsien-Che, who made several documentaries, White Ant is a psychological drama that tells a story about sexual fetishism. Bai Yide is a young man living alone. He works at a bookstore and derives sexua...

New Currents

• India
• 2016
• 71min

A small village by a lake. Citing pollution, the government incinerates the shanties that the destitute have long called home. People watch in despair as their homes burn. Among them is Tomba, who was able to somehow save his home...