A Window on Asian Cinema

• Anocha SUWICHAKORNPONG
• Thailand,Netherlands,France,Qatar
• 2016
• 105min

Ann, a film director, wants to make a movie based on the massacre of university students at the hands of the military in turbulent 1970s Thailand. While preparing for the film, she...

Flash Forward

• Christopher PAPAKALIATIS
• Greece
• 2016
• 113min

Worlds Apart is made up of three love stories between Greeks and foreigners. The first is about Greek Daphne and Syrian refugee Farris. The two fall in love when Daphne almo...

Special Programs in Focus

• Abbas KIAROSTAMI
• Iran
• 2016
• 77min

The title, Where is the Friend’s Home, comes from a poem by renowned Iranian poet and artist Sohrab Seperi. It is generally believed that this film not only brought the whol...

Special Programs in Focus

• Abbas KIAROSTAMI
• Iran
• 2016
• 93min

It all began with a magazine article. One day in 1989, director Abbas Kiarostami happened to read an article about a young man in the Iranian magazine Sorush. One Hossain S...

Special Programs in Focus

• Abbas KIAROSTAMI
• Iran
• 2016
• 94min

An ideal reflection of director Abbas Kiarostami’s cinematic philosophy and warm personality, this film begins with the massive earthquake that struck northern Iran in 1990, three ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Abbas KIAROSTAMI
• Iran,France
• 2016
• 103min

This is the last in the Koker Trilogy, following Where is the Friend’s Home and And Life goes on. After stories of a boy searching for his friend’s home, and a film d...

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• Abbas KIAROSTAMI
• Iran,France
• 2016
• 98min

Abbas Kiarostami sets out again. As did all his other selves, another of his alter egos, Badii, ventures out in search of something. Kiarostami, who searched for hope in his Koker ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Abbas KIAROSTAMI
• Iran,France
• 2016
• 117min

Abbas Kiarostami presents a man whose interest in death turns into an epiphany that reveals the value of life and nature. A group of reporters from Tehran arrive in a small Kurdis...

Special Programs in Focus

• Abbas KIAROSTAMI
• France,Iran,Italy,Belgium
• 2016
• 106min

For Abbas Kiarostami’s first feature drama made outside Iran (in Italy), British opera singer William Shimell made his acting debut with a dazzling performance alongside Juliette ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Suman GHOSH
• United States,India
• 2016
• 85min

Mi Amor is the sixth film from Suman Ghosh, who is well-known to BIFF. By focusing on the gap between the rich and the poor as well as the conflicts between generations, his...