A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2018
• 77min

The film explores time and facial expression. The camera does capture the landscape, but is microscopic in its capture of human expressions, even detailing emotions. Tsai Ming-Liang uses 13 faces to create his own genre that is ne...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2018
• 78min

Single, middle-aged woman Mithi yearns to take charge of her life, but finds it difficult. One day, she finds meaning in life after hearing a man’s voice who seems to understand her at the train station. She starts adoring the voi...

Special Programs in Focus

• Russia
• 2017
• 90min

The Arctic part of Yakutia has unbearable climate and permafrost and this severe land draws people who long for freedom and independence. The film introduces a horse breeder, who spends the most part of the year in tundra, looking...

Wide Angle

• Singapore
• 2017
• 80min

The size of the film industry and the number of film productions in Singapore is relatively small, but it has excellent directors. Historically and socially, this multicultural country has gone through a lot of ups and downs, and ...

World Cinema

• France,Portugal
• 2017
• 99min

In a remote train station in the middle of the night, Magloire runs away from police officers when they try to check his ID. Having nothing with him, he wanders around for a while until he is given some money by a total stranger. ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2017
• 127min

Based on the classic science fiction novel published by Mishima Yukio in 1962, director Yoshida Daihachi of Pale Moon and The Kirishima Thingmade this movie. Although the original story focuses on the anxiety regarding the fall of...

Wide Angle

• Cambodia,UK,Ireland,Canada
• 2017
• 126min

In 1993, Cambodia had its first democratic election. At the same time, the winds of development propelled by a free market economy swept the country. This documentary depicts the struggles and resistance of those forced to leave t...

Wide Angle

• Nepal
• 2017
• 14min

A tourist?a white man?arriving in a remote Himalayan village piques the interest of the children who live there. Young Jaalgedi is so taken with the stranger that she loses focus on her shepherd work, unwittingly allowing disaster...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2017
• 73min

The film never made opening night and was forgotten until rediscovered as one of director Lee Manhee’s best films. It’s the story about a poor, young couple’s Sunday. Shin Seong-il appears as penniless Heo Uk, the image of the des...

World Cinema

• Chile
• 2017
• 104min

Marina is in her 20’s and works as a waitress during the day and as a club singer at night. One day, she enjoys a birthday night with her lover Orlando, a middle aged businessman, who becomes unconscious all of a sudden and dies t...