New Currents

• India
• 2016
• 115min

A film that questions the idea of “filmmaking” in a chaotic age, an age of division and conflict in Indian society. To Hari, born to a Muslim father and a Hindu mother, India is an achromatic society. Thanks to his parents, who me...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2016
• 105min

In winter 1979, a family gathers at their holiday home in Gunji, a resort town in India, to see in the New Year together. While introverted cousin Shyamal, free-spirited eldest brother Bonnie, Nandu and his wife, and Mimi?in a sub...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand
• 2016
• 110min

It is considered pure love when someone would lay down their life for the sake of love. A Gas Station is, according to this general concept, a story of pure love. The nature of love in this film looks like a gas station that stand...

Wide Angle

• France
• 2016
• 192min

A Journey Through French Cinema is master director Bertrand Tavernier’s love letter to French Cinema, showing him to be not just a filmmaker but a passionate cinephile. Tavernier takes as model My Voyage to Italy (2002) of Martin ...

Wide Angle

• Thailand
• 2016
• 22min

Ayutthaya Witthayalai School was founded by King Rama VIII in 1939, seven years before his untimely death. A filmmaker recollects the many stories and memories he had as a student within its walls, drawing parallels between his ti...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2016
• 489min

The film begins on the day before the execution of Jose Rizal, one of the national heroes of the Philippines. Starting from political propaganda movements to reform the Spanish colonial system, which had lasted more than three hun...

• 2012 APM Project, 2015 Works-in-Progress(WIP) Project, Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize at Berlin Film Festival

Flash Forward

• Canada
• 2016
• 95min

A man finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time and witnesses a crime scene committed by two teenage brothers. He is immediately kidnapped by the boys who have gotten themselves into a big trouble. This launches the bizar...

• BNK Busan Bank Award candidate

World Cinema

• Italy,France
• 2016
• 107min

Taking her son Valerio with her, Anna runs from her abusive husband and hides at her long-time friend Carla’s home. Theater actress Carla is unceremonious and liberal, and though not rich, warmly welcomes her friend in peril. Anna...

Opening Film & Closing Film

• Korea
• 2016
• 101min

Life is tough for Ye-ri, a young woman who runs a bar and takes care of her unconscious, paralyzed father. Three men, Ik-june, Jong-bin, and Jung-bum, all try to woo her, but they don’t have much success for each is flawed in thei...

Wide Angle

• Japan,United States
• 2016
• 93min

This investigative documentary film shows what is going on in Taiji, a small fishing village in Japan, after 2010’s The Cove, also a documentary that brought international attention to this village. The Cove featured a dolphin tra...