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Wide Angle

The Cinema Travellers
  • Shirley ABRAHAM,Amit MADHESHIYA
  • India
  • 2016
  • 96min

A tent is pitched in the middle of the festival grounds and an old projector is readied for a screening. Light travels above the audience, gathering in the blissful moments as it’s...

  • 2014 AND BNK 부산은행펀드

World Cinema

Brightness
  • Souleymane CISSE
  • Mali
  • 2016
  • 105min

Niankoro has for 10 years lived in fear of his jealous sorcerer father. When he becomes an adult, he runs away, taking the “Kore eye” in order to bring it to his uncle, Djigui. On ...

Flash Forward

The Idea of a Lake
  • Milagros MUMENTHALER
  • Argentina,Switzerland,Qatar
  • 2016
  • 82min

Ines is an expectant mother and a professional photographer in the midst of finalizing a photographic album of her father. The project, related to the memories of her childhood, al...

Wide Angle

Gentleman Rissient
  • Guy SELIGMAN,Benoit JACQUOT,Pascal MERIGEAU
  • France
  • 2016
  • 77min

Director Pierre Rissient has been a film buff since his teenage years in Paris in the 1950s. Starting his 60-year saga as a programmer at the legendary Cinema Mac-Mahon, followed b...

Special Programs in Focus

Roads of Kiarostami
  • Abbas KIAROSTAMI
  • Iran
  • 2016
  • 32min

This film by Abbas Kiarostami, impressive in his philosophical narration regarding nature, is a black and white documentary compiling and re-filming the director’s collection of “r...

World Premiere

Special Programs in Focus

24 Frames
  • Abbas KIAROSTAMI
  • Iran
  • 2016
  • 04min

"I first conceived of 24 Frames while reflecting on the works of iconic painters whose pieces were created prior to the advent of cinema; I pondered the aspiration of artist...

Special Programs in Focus

76 Minutes and 15 Seconds with Abbas Kiarostami
  • Seifollah SAMADIAN
  • Iran
  • 2016
  • 76min

This documentary film reflects 76 minutes and 15 seconds of exceptional moments of Abbas Kiarostami’s daily life in respect of 76 years and 15 days of his fruitful and creative lif...

World Premiere

Korean Cinema Today

Jane
  • Hyunhoon CHO
  • Korea
  • 2016
  • 100min

Sohyun, a runaway, is left alone after her close friend Jungho disappears. By accident, she gets to know a transgender woman named Jane. She joins Jane and her close-knit community...

  • 2016 ACF 후반작업지원펀드
World Premiere

New Currents

Merry Christmas Mr. Mo
  • LIM Dae Hyung
  • 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...

  • 2016 ACF 후반작업지원펀드
World Premiere

Korean Cinema Today

LOST TO SHAME
  • NAM Yeon-woo
  • Korea
  • 2016
  • 104min

Songjun is an unknown actor who often has to borrow money from his brother to get by. On one of his grim days, Songjun is cast as the lead in a play about homosexuality. The play i...

  • 2016 ACF 후반작업지원펀드
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