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The Empty Box
  • Claudia SAINTE-LUCE
  • Mexico,France
  • 2016
  • 101min

Jasmin hears that her long-lost father Toussaint’s health is worsening. Toussaint is an illegal immigrant from Haiti, who is losing his memory from vascular dementia. After seeing ...

World Cinema

Brooks, Meadows and Lovely Faces
  • Yousry NASRALLAH
  • Egypt
  • 2016
  • 115min

Yehia, a famous chef of the village, owns a catering business with his two sons, Galal and Refaat. The two sons are completely different. Galal is a troublemaker and an ex-con who ...

World Cinema

Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden
  • Dieter BERNER
  • Austria,Luxembourg
  • 2016
  • 109min

In the early 20th century, expressionist artist Egon Schiele was one of the most provocative in Austria. The film begins in 1918 when Schiele is dying and then flips back to 1910 w...

International Premiere

World Cinema

Koblic
  • Sebastian BORENSZTEIN
  • Spain,Argentina
  • 2016
  • 97min

In the year of 1977, captain Tomas Koblic is about to face the most agonizing crossroads in his life: he find himself in command of a “death flight” accompanied by other repressors...

A Window on Asian Cinema

Fan
  • Maneesh SHARMA
  • India,Croatia
  • 2016
  • 138min

Fan, a new film from the well-known Bollywood filmmaker Shahrukh Khan, is a thriller far unlike anything else in his oeuvre. Khan creates the most challenging and interestin...

World Cinema

From the Land of the Moon
  • Nicole GARCIA
  • France
  • 2016
  • 120min

Gabrielle dreams of true love in a small village in the South of France. But in the conservative climate of the times, her carefree ideas and actions are deemed scandalous and insa...

World Premiere

Wide Angle

Those from the Shore
  • Tamara STEPANYAN
  • Lebanon,Qatar,Armenia,France
  • 2016
  • 84min

Those from the Shore is a documentary about Armenian refugees living in Marseille, France, and demonstrates how France’s refugee policy operates with indifference. Some Arme...

World Premiere

Wide Angle

Year of the Bird
  • Shenang Gyamjo TAMANG
  • Nepal
  • 2016
  • 15min

Two Buddhist lamas are individually dealing with their own personal crises. Older Paljor is wracked with guilt and younger Tashi has lost perspective. When they meet at a retreat i...

World Premiere

Korean Cinema Today

Picture of Hell
  • PARK Kiyong
  • Korea,Japan
  • 2016
  • 93min

A female university student walks from the subway station to her tutoring job. There’s a camera that follows her, continuing to film her in one single take. When she arrives at the...

World Cinema

The Oath
  • Baltasar KORMAKUR
  • Iceland
  • 2016
  • 103min

Finnur is a prominent thoracic surgeon. After losing his first wife, he remarries and forms a new family, which includes Anna, his daughter from his first marriage. After finding o...

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