Special Programs in Focus

• Russia
• 2017
• 89min

A remote Yakut village, late 1960s. Senior students want to make a graduation gift to their school?write an essay about its history. They ask oldtimers about their village’s past. From what they said, Kesha, learns that their scho...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2017
• 130min

A general store teeming with various beautiful stories could be a miraculous place where past and present can talk to each other. As Namiya says, it is to identify the net. The net in the movie is called “the miracle of the genera...

World Cinema

• Spain
• 2017
• 112min

The self-destructive obsession of a would-be writer, who has made up his mind to write a bestseller, is motivated by the success of his wife as a writer. Problem is, he lacks talent and imagination. He figures out that great ficti...

World Cinema

• United States
• 2017
• 109min

Stranded after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must forge a connection to survive the extreme elements of a remote snow-covered mountain. When they realize help is not coming, they embark on a perilous journey across hundreds ...

Flash Forward

• Portugal
• 2017
• 177min

In a factory in Portugal, workers suspect that they might lose their jobs when they find the machines are relocated under cover of darkness. Conflicts arise between the workers and management, which leaves the factory half empty a...

World Cinema

• Finland,Germany
• 2017
• 98min

A Syrian refugee, Khaled, sneaks onto a coal freighter and smuggles himself into Helsinki. He seeks asylum only to be turned down, which leaves him no choice but to live on the streets. Then a dorky Finn, Wikstrom, takes him to hi...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2017
• 104min

The spirit of our youth that trusts in our self-value and dream seems to turn into hopeless and irresponsible folly as we grow older if we don’t find success. This movie teaches us how to embrace our failures. The scenes and sound...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2017
• 18min

As a mechanic and a man with a broken down car get to chatting by the side of a desolate road, it soon becomes clear that the car owner also owns the factory the mechanic’s brother was recently fired from.

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2017
• 126min

The lamb in “The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary” introduced in this movie is an animal fruit born in a plant stem similar to the umbilical cord. If the stem is cut, the lamb dies. This creature lives as part of a plant and of an animal...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia,Netherlands,Australia,Qatar
• 2017
• 83min

Brother and sister Tantra and Tantri are fraternal twins. Lately Tantra has been bedridden in hospital and his brain becomes weak, almost losing consciousness. Now, there is little time left for Tantri to spend with her brother, a...