World Cinema

• Brazil
• 2016
• 145min

Aquarius is an old apartment located in the harbor city of Recife in Brazil. Built in the 1940s as a two-story building, it is the place where the 62-year-old former music critic Clara spent her whole life. When a mass development...

• Cannes Film Festival (In Competition)

Special Programs in Focus

• Colombia
• 2016
• 86min

The Araucaima Mansion is the second feature by Carlos Mayolo, based on the prestigious Cervantes Award-winning novel by Colombian writer Alvaro Mutis. The film constructs a story of a young girl who escapes from the set of a comme...

Midnight Passion

• Japan
• 2016
• 81min

Shinji is a middle-aged, sleaze film director who used to be famous. He hardly goes back home and moves from one woman to another. In spite of his idleness, women are very fond of him and look after him compassionately for whateve...

World Cinema

• United States
• 2016
• 116min

When multiple mysterious spacecraft touch down across the globe, an elite team is put together to investigate, including linguist Louise Banks, mathematician Ian Donnelly, and US Army Colonel Weber. Mankind teeters on the verge of...

• Venice Film Festival (In Competition)

Wide Angle

• Singapore,Indonesia,Malaysia,Philippines,Thailand
• 2016
• 30min

Five award-winning ASEAN film directors celebrate Southeast Asian art through this collection of short films. As an omnibus of short films, is inspired by the art collection found at the National Gallery Singapore, Each of the fiv...

Special Programs in Focus

• Colombia
• 2016
• 15min

Open Cinema

• Taiwan,China
• 2016
• 103min

The irony of love is that the more beautiful and passionate it is, the more tragic a separation becomes. High school companions Min-Liu and Xin-Rui are attracted to each other, but when they go to different universities in differe...

Open Cinema

• Italy
• 2016
• 100min

While the world is aflame in war in 1943, Arturo falls in love. However, his love Flora is promised to marry, against her will, a son of New York Mafia boss. The only choice left to penniless Arturo is to find Flora’s father in Si...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2016
• 24min

A documentary about Nogami Teruyo, who for nearly half a century stood by Akira Kurosawa as a screenwriting collaborator, a script supervisor, and a companion.

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2016
• 78min

Jihyun attends an interview in Seoul before taking a train back to his hometown of Chuncheon. On the way he sits next to a middle-aged couple. The film soon separates into two stories, one following Jihyun and the other following ...