A Window on Asian Cinema

• United States,Qatar
• 2017
• 80min

J is delaying the start of her puberty because she is concerned about her gender. However, it’s time to make a decision. J’s sister Lauren and her boyfriend Araz are also going through an unstable period and confronting their own ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2017
• 72min

At night, Manila’s red light Burgos district starts shining and its shops get busy welcoming tourists and women from different countries. The life of Tuesday, Amanda and Barbie is also here. Providing sexual services, the three tr...

Special Programs in Focus

• Japan
• 2017
• 83min

When his Yakuza gang is disbanded, Tetsuya “Phoenix Tetsu” Hondo stays loyal to his boss?not an easy task for him. With stunningly choreographed action sequences and vibrant colors, Tokyo Drifter stands as one of Suzuki’s best-kno...

Midnight Passion

• Japan
• 2017
• 142min

Manami goes out to celebrate her 22nd birthday with friends and narrowly misses being killed in a spree murder. But her plight is far from over. Two vampires, K, from the Dracula clan, and Yamada, from the Corvin clan, are after h...

Flash Forward

• Finland,United States
• 2017
• 115min

Tom of Finland portrays the life of Touko Laaksonen, who had a significant influence on gay culture in the 20th century. Moving between the present and the past, this film views his life and art as a gay, capturing the essence of ...

Open Cinema

• France
• 2017
• 96min

Mathilde, not quite a teenager yet, looks after her mentally unstable mother, but separation is an everpresent threat. The complicated and touching relationship between a nine-year old and her mother unfolds as a strong mise-en-sc...

Wide Angle

• Lebanon,Germany,Spain,Qatar
• 2017
• 26min

The football World Cup kicks off today and the people of Beirut are eager for the big awaited event. While life moves on normally in such a day, the signal of the first match seems to be disrupted by strange audio waves. The frust...

Wide Angle

• India
• 2017
• 20min

What is more valuable, your identity or your life? That is the question Sikh brothers Gurnam and Harnam are forced to ask during Punjab’s 1990 insurgency that saw Sikhs a target for violence. To survive another day, Harnam suggest...

Flash Forward

• Germany,Poland
• 2017
• 92min

Sixteen-year-old Isabell was reluctant to join a self-help camp, but she changed her mind as she is drawn to the charming therapist, Einar, who uses a “Penetrating Family Constellation” treatment. One participant disappears from t...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• SriLanka
• 2017
• 96min

Sam shows signs of mental illness, being obsessed with women’s underpants. He causes trouble by stealing the neighbors’ panties and touching the panties of passing women. Sam’s brother Mahesh and his wife Nayani stay at Sam’s mans...