Wide Angle

• Hong Kong,China,France,Germany
• 2017
• 86min

A new movie directed by Wang Bing, the master of slow cinemas. The movie starts with three shots, in front of Mrs. Fang’s room and the house. The title refers to this woman, Mrs. Fang, but contrary to the audience’s expectation, a...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kyrgyzstan
• 2017
• 71min

Based on the novel of the same name, the movie deals with an adulterous couple. In a small village in Kyrgyzstan, a married man, Januzak, and a girl named Munabia fall in love fatefully, and the predictable stories follow: the fam...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2017
• 23min

Jinseo happens to witness her stepmother having sex and becomes obsessed by a delusion that her father is locked up in a bag. Jin-seo sets out to rescue her endangered father, only to be locked up in a bag herself.

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2017
• 23min

Young Lily’s waist-length hair has made her the subject of bullying at the orphanage she lives in, and unable to bear it any longer, she hacks it off. But Lily has broken a taboo and soon finds herself surrounded by ghosts, fighti...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2017
• 18min

The poolside conversations between a boy and his classmate linger in his mind after her sudden death in this coming-of-age tale that recalls one boy’s remembrances of what he considers the time of his life.

Gala Presentation

• Japan
• 2017
• 140min

The latest work by Yukisada Isao, who is establishing his own refined sub-genre, crafting films about love rendered with an exquisite and subtle sensitivity. He narrates the scenes of a heartbreaking love story, weaving it togethe...

Flash Forward

• Canada
• 2017
• 111min

Having lived with Parkinson’s disease for almost two decades, Judy is faced with the heightened challenges of daily life when her husband and caregiver dies of a sudden heart attack on their isolated property on the shores of Stua...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2017
• 93min

Senpai is in love with Otome secretly. He seeks her at Ponto-cho at night, at the used book market at Shimogamo Shrine, at the university fair, meaning everywhere. But she never realizes how he feels, and each time he happens to r...

• Focus: YUASA MASAAKI

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Bangladesh,India
• 2017
• 86min

Mostofa Sarwar Farooki’s latest feature tells a somber and heart-wrenching story largely through flashbacks, ellipses, subtle silences and spot-on acting performances: A celebrated movie director has an extra-marital relationship ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2017
• 104min

A forensic scientist, Dr. Nariman, has a collision with Moosa’s family riding a motorbike at night. In the accident, Moosa’s eight-year-old son sustains minor injuries, but Moosa declines to take him to the hospital. The next morn...