Flash Forward

• Portugal
• 2017
• 71min

As thousands in Lisbon march against austerity measures, jobless and lonely Susana joins the protest but can’t escape from her solitude. Meanwhile, listless Jorge lives with his mom and has insomnia. Susana and Jorge turn on their...

Flash Forward

• Italy
• 2017
• 98min

In a remote village near Naples, war wages between farmers and the Camorra, a crime syndicate that polluted the farmland. The death of farmer Cosimo casts a dark shadow not only on his family, but on the future of this village neg...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2017
• 125min

THE YELLOW MONKEY is the best rock band in Japan, proclaims the re-forming group, breaking the silence of the past 15 years. The members of the band begin their concert tour, promising never to break up again. Director Daishi phot...

World Cinema

• UK
• 2017
• 112min

Based on Shrabani Basu’s book Victoria & Abdul: The True Story of the Queen’s Closest Confidant, this is the extraordinary true story of an unexpected friendship in the later years of Queen Victoria’s remarkable rule. When Abdul K...

Flash Forward

• CostaRica,Mexico
• 2017
• 85min

Recently divorced, 72-year-old Violeta lives alone in her childhood house, tending to her lush tropical garden and visiting with the ghosts of her parents. Determined to enjoy her newfound freedom, she takes swimming lessons and r...

World Cinema

• Morocco,France,Qatar
• 2017
• 106min

Shopping mall security guard Abdelkader and housemaid Malika are newlyweds. Despite their financial difficulties, their love for each other and dreams for the future are big. But one day, Abdelkader experiences a humiliating incid...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Palestine,Qatar,France,Germany,Norway,Colombia,United Arab Emirates
• 2017
• 96min

Living in Italy, Shadi returns to his Palestinian hometown to attend his sister’s wedding. The film is the story of a day during which Shadi and his father, Abu Shadi, distribute wedding invitations from door to door, true to the ...

• 2015 ACF Script Development Fund

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China,Hong Kong,China
• 2017
• 128min

With his fifth feature, director-screenwriter Li Ruijun continues his exploration of fast-changing China by looking at the continuing shifts recent years have been bringing to both urban and rural lives and sensibilities. Largely ...

Wide Angle

• China,Brazil,Russia,India,SouthAfrica
• 2017
• 110min

An omnibus made by five directors representing five countries. Outstanding directors, Walter Salles, Alexey Fedorchenko, Madhur Bhandarkar, Jia Zhangke and Jahmil X.T. Qubeka have made short films with the common theme of “time”. ...

Flash Forward

• Italy
• 2017
• 100min

Anna, a Yenish, was separated from her family and grew up in an orphanage in Switzerland. Many years later, the former orphanage becomes a nursing home and the now grown Anna works there as a nurse. When a woman moves into the nur...