A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia
• 2016
• 90min

Set in Indonesia’s Dutch colonial era, in 1927, a young and beautiful woman lives with her sick and aged Dutch husband. This woman loses her own name and is called Njai, which means a foreigner’s concubine, and realizes that she i...

World Cinema

• France
• 2016
• 119min

A small village in Normandy in the early 19th century. Jeanne finishes her education at a convent school and returns home to her parents and a peaceful, pastoral life. Soon, she accepts the proposal of the impoverished Viscount Ju...

• Venice Film Festival (In Competition)

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Singapore,France
• 2016
• 112min

Recently released from prison, Siva works part time at funerals while searching for his wife and daughter, who left him shortly after he was put away. In spite of his desperate efforts, no one, including his own mother, is willing...

• Cannes Film Festival (Critics′ Week)

Wide Angle

• Taiwan,Malaysia
• 2016
• 84min

Perak, Malaysia. For over 30 years, a picture of a man has hung on the wall of an old house. The family who lives there is reluctant to talk about it and who he was. Absent Without Leave delves into the history of this mysterious ...

• 2015 AND DongSeo Asia Fund

World Cinema

• Poland
• 2016
• 98min

Born in Belarus, Władysław Strzemi?ski is a representative avant-garde artist of 20th century Poland. He launched a magazine, Blok, with his peers under the influence of Constructivism and Neo-Plasticism, and created a unique theo...

Flash Forward

• Switzerland,France
• 2016
• 91min

Middle-aged Aloys is a private detective working at his father’s private agency. His life is comprised of obsessive and repetitive observation of other people’s lives through 24-hour surveillance videos. When his father dies, his ...

• FIPRESCI Prize at Panorama, Berlin Film Festival

Flash Forward

• Greece,UK,Germany
• 2016
• 87min

Tattoo artist Billy and unemployed Nakos are best friends from Athens. Old bachelor Nakos is a racist, obsessed with the victim mentality, and he rages at Greece’s increasing immigrant numbers. Billy, however, is in favor of forei...

• BNK Busan Bank Award candidate

Wide Angle

• India
• 2016
• 96min

A powerful documentary about an unprecedented political experiment in India. A group that organizes meetings to criticize government corruption forms a new political party, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), and jumps into the election ca...

• 2014 AND DongSeo Asia Fund

Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 2016
• 94min

An ideal reflection of director Abbas Kiarostami’s cinematic philosophy and warm personality, this film begins with the massive earthquake that struck northern Iran in 1990, three years after Where is the Friend’s Home was produce...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Singapore,France,Germany,Hong Kong,China,Qatar
• 2016
• 96min

Is it be possible to become friends with the person who took the life of a family member? Aiman, a young prison guard, is transferred to the country’s most secure prison where he meets Rahim, the prison’s chief executioner and the...

• Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard), 2012 ACF Script Development Fund