Wide Angle

• Lebanon
• 2017
• 93min

The documentary offers insights into revolution and history. Many documentaries on Lebanese politics explore the causes of the civil war, explain the relationship between religion and politics, and try to summarize its complicated...

• 2014 AND BIFF Mecenat Fund

Wide Angle

• Germany,Japan
• 2017
• 75min

Kei is a 22-year-old homeless roaming Kyoto with a backpack. Man is about the conflict between dreams and reality. This theme is still special, though, because of the leading character’s special charm and the stereotypical Japanes...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2017
• 13min

Jaegyeong, a high school girl who walks with crutches, forms a strategic alliance with Giu, a high school boy who plans to enter college. Giu agrees to carry Jaegyeong’s bag and crutches on condition that his good conduct be regis...

World Cinema

• France,Germany,Netherlands,Lithuania
• 2017
• 143min

In a remote village in Russia, a woman lives by herself. She sends parcels to her husband who is serving a prison sentence, but they keep coming back for a reason she does not know. She goes to the town where the prison is located...

Wide Angle

• China
• 2017
• 15min

In a nameless Chinese city, a mother whose daughter is missing refuses to go gentle into this good night. Following the mother’s desperate search for her missing daughter, this short impressively captures her fears and emotions. T...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2017
• 25min

When a professor files a lawsuit against her over a hand-drawn poster, college student Hye-ri goes to the clubroom to see her friend Min-yeong, with whom she made the poster. Finding her there with a new member, Hyeri is caught up...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2017
• 110min

Sixteen-year-old Jeong-ae lives with her father in a redevelopment area in Seoul. Her father is diagnosed with terminal cancer, but has given up and is awaiting death. He tells her that everything becomes easy when you give up. On...

• 2017 ACF Post-Production Fund

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Afghanistan
• 2017
• 83min

Sentenced to death for murdering her husband, Soraya writes a long letter to her country’s president requesting a special pardon. This letter, which is as long as a novel, is repeatedly lost and found before it finally, reaches th...

Wide Angle

• Nepal,Canada,China
• 2017
• 92min

Known as the birthplace of Buddha, Lumbini, Nepal, is a famous pilgrimage site with more than 40 Buddhist temples. In the temples, hundreds of children, mostly orphans, receive care and education as trainees. The film documents th...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2017
• 117min

When he was at university in Tehran, Reza shouted audaciously “In this country, there are only two ways of life: either you oppress people or be oppressed yourself!” While one of his peers continued to raise his voice like this an...