History

World Premiere

Wide Angle

Stairway
  • Matt WU
  • Taiwan
  • 2014
  • 30min

Every year, during the Tomb Sweeping Day, the whole family accompanies the grandmother up 43 flights of stairs to reach grandfather’s grave. This year, the grandmother feels unable...

World Premiere

Wide Angle

Son
  • Subarna THAPA
  • Nepal,France
  • 2014
  • 25min

Krishna has spent the better part of his son’s three-year-life in prison. While on leave he learns his wife is leaving him and taking his son. Krishna comes to the understanding th...

World Premiere

Wide Angle

White Sparrow
  • Dilovar SULTONOV
  • Tajikistan
  • 2014
  • 20min

A mute boy lives in his own little poetic world. Despite his inability to communicate by speech, he experiences no obstacles in life. He sees an infinite spectrum of unrealized pos...

World Premiere

Wide Angle

Two Halves of a Truth
  • Neda ASSEF
  • Iran
  • 2014
  • 12min

Reminiscing about old memories may be the only thing that can change your mood. When you remember your past with a certain person, you tend to only remember the good. Perhaps this ...

World Premiere

Wide Angle

Fluid Boundaries
  • Daniel Rudi HARYANTO,Vladimir TODOROVIC,MUN Jeonghyun
  • Singapore,Indonesia,Korea
  • 2014
  • 90min

Vladimir Todorovic, Mun Jeonghyun, and Daniel Rudi Haryanto - film directors from Serbia, South Korea, and Indonesia, respectively - met at an international film festival and decid...

  • 2012 AND DMZ펀드

World Cinema

Eden
  • Mia HANSEN-LØVE
  • France
  • 2014
  • 131min

This fourth feature by Mia Hansen-Løve is dedicated to the so-called French touch. Starting in the 1990s when electronic music was born and reaching into the 21st century, the film...

Special Programs in Focus

The Extreme Tragic Story of Celal Tan and His Family
  • Onur UNLU
  • Turkey
  • 2014
  • 99min

Eminent law school professor Celal Tan’s family witnesses a shocking crime, which they proceed to conceal. As the family disintegrates at the disclosure of hypocrisy, Celal does hi...

World Cinema

Kill Me Three Times
  • Kriv STENDERS
  • Australia
  • 2014
  • 90min

You can’t trust a woman who is willing to sleep with a man who makes his living by putting his fingers into people’s mouths. You can’t trust a man who deals drugs and runs a beachs...

World Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Gentle
  • Kiet LE-VAN
  • Vietnam,United States
  • 2014
  • 98min

This new mystery-thriller by genre maestro Kiet Le-Van is a modern Vietnamese adaptation of Dostoevsky’s novella ‘A Gentle Creature’. A young and beautiful woman, Linh, commits sui...

International Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Bwaya
  • Francis Xavier PASION
  • Philippines
  • 2014
  • 83min

Based on true events, Divina lives in a floating house, poor but happy with her husband and 12-yearold daughter Rowena. One day, a crocodile attacks and kills Rowena. Rowena’s fath...

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