A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2019
• 81min

Nathuni is a middle-aged woman who lives in a rural village with her bedridden husband and two school-aged children. There is no food at home and no work in the village, and there is a danger of rape even in something as innocuous...

Busan Classics

• Hungary
• 2019
• 112min

Though Director Peter BACSO is a strange name to Korean audience, he left a clear mark in the Hungarian film history. His 1969 signature film, The Witness, was banned at the time of its production and was not available to audience...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2019
• 138min

Doichi in his 40s is a boatman who is transporting villagers to towns beyond the river. While working all day ferrying the villagers, Doichi only talks to Kenzo, a young neighbor. A bridge is being built on the upper reaches of th...

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Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2019
• 100min

Things That Do Us Part is a documentary that reframes the stories of three women fighters who dove into a tragic war in modern Korean history, using witness statements and reenactments. The three historical women presented in the ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2019
• 75min

Filmmaker PARK Hong-yeol once played the part of a man in black who washes windows in HONG Sang-soo’s On the Beach at Night Alone. Reenacting the scene in several different ways, PARK jokes that he began working on this documentar...

World Cinema

• Hungary
• 2019
• 88min

Hungary after World War II. A 42-year-old man and a 16-year-old girl meet in a city struggling with the ravages and destitution of war. The man lost his wife and two children on the Holocaust and the girl lost her parents and is l...

World Cinema

• Brazil
• 2019
• 123min

Ernetso, an Uruguayan retiree living alone in Brazil, is slowly losing his sight. His shelves are filled with books that he cannot read anymore, his son frets about his health and urges him to move in with him, his neighbors are f...

World Cinema

• France,Mexico
• 2019
• 90min

Jean-Charles HUE is a revelation of French cinema in recent years. Having directed documentaries since the 2000s, he is particularly interested in gypsy communities in France and Spain. After his feature film Eat Your Bones (2014)...

Wide Angle

• Jordan,France,Qatar,Lebanon
• 2019
• 85min

Tiny Souls is a film about the miserable yet beautiful survival of Syrian child refugees. In 2012, nine-year-old girl Marwa and her family escapes Syria and begin their new life in a refugee camp in Jordan. Marwa and her younger s...

World Cinema

• Tunisie,France
• 2019
• 120min

A Tunisian soldier S, who gets on a vacation for his mother′s funeral, refuses to fight against terrorists and hides in the mountain. A few years later, the wife of a young businessman who moved to a nearby villa goes missing whil...

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