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International Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Song of the Phoenix
  • WU Tianming
  • China
  • 2014
  • 108min

Wu Tianming was a leading force in China’s Fourth Generation and an inspiration to the filmmakers of the Fifth Generation. His posthumous Song of Phoenix deals with the conflict be...

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Atlantic.
  • Jan-Willem VAN EWIJK
  • Netherlands,Belgium,Germany,Morocco
  • 2014
  • 94min

In a small fishing village in Morocco on the Atlantic Ocean lives a young fisherman by the name of Fettah. He befriends the many European windsurfers who visit this island every su...

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Love the One You Love
  • Jenna Cato BASS
  • SouthAfrica
  • 2014
  • 96min

Cape Town, South Africa. Terri makes money as a phone sex operator and her lover, Sandile, works as a dog handler. Their romance is perfect. So perfect it seems their relationship ...

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Gente de Bien
  • Franco LOLLI
  • France,Colombia
  • 2014
  • 86min

Eric lives with his father, barely making ends meet by doing chores for a rich Maria’s family. Maria suggests that Eric and his father should enjoy the Christmas holidays at her fa...

  • 칸영화제 비평가주간

World Cinema

The Drop
  • Michael R. ROSKAM
  • United States
  • 2014
  • 107min

Bob Saginowski slings drinks in his Cousin Marv’s bar and looks the other way whenever Brooklyn crime bosses use the place as a temporary bank for their ill-gotten gains. He keeps ...

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Self Made
  • Shira GEFFEN
  • Israel
  • 2014
  • 89min

Israeli artist, Michal’s bed frame breaks and she wakes up by bumping her head on the floor. The injury might have caused Michal to be unable to remember her TV interview or the ta...

  • 칸영화제 비평가주간

World Cinema

Return to Ithaca
  • Laurent CANTET
  • France
  • 2014
  • 96min

Havana at sunset. Five friends have gathered for the first time in years on the rooftop of a building looking down at the city to celebrate the return of Amadeo after 16 years of e...

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Kafka's the Burrow
  • Jochen Alexander FREYDANK
  • Germany
  • 2014
  • 110min

Inspired by Franz Kafka’s unfinished short story, this film depicts a man who moves into an apartment he has made into a fortress. The original story has an animal as its main char...

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Next to Her
  • Asaf KORMAN
  • Israel
  • 2014
  • 90min

Chelli works as a security guard and lives with her mentally challenged sister, Gabby. Chelli refuses the approach of the social welfare worker and tries to live self-sufficiently,...

  • 칸영화제 감독주간
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Sebastian
  • Carlos CIURLIZZA
  • Peru
  • 2014
  • 108min

Sebastian, a chef, hears that his mother is sick and returns to his Peruvian hometown after nine years. While nursing his mother, he finds out that his ex-girlfriend from nine year...

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