Flash Forward

• Russia
• 2016
• 84min

A young man dies in an accident. Another man responsible for this accident fails to overcome the guilt and kills himself. The latter’s father, who lost a son overnight, tries to recover from the pain. He brings home an orphaned bo...

• BNK Busan Bank Award candidate

World Cinema

• Australia
• 2016
• 112min

It’s Halloween 1997 - the last night of high school for Corey, Jango and their skater gang, The Gromits. Childhood is over and adult life beckons. But for Corey, his past has some unfinished business. When he encounters Jonah, a f...

• Venice Film Festival (Orizzonti)

World Cinema

• Mali
• 2016
• 105min

Niankoro has for 10 years lived in fear of his jealous sorcerer father. When he becomes an adult, he runs away, taking the “Kore eye” in order to bring it to his uncle, Djigui. On the way, he is accused of being a thief and become...

World Cinema

• Egypt
• 2016
• 115min

Yehia, a famous chef of the village, owns a catering business with his two sons, Galal and Refaat. The two sons are completely different. Galal is a troublemaker and an ex-con who loves women (even married ones), while Refaat is a...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2016
• 90min

The film follows three immigrant workers from Burma. Living together on a building’s rooftop in the Masoek Furniture Industrial Complex, they sometimes cook Burmese dishes, or eat “kimchi” and “ramyon” alone, or drink and enjoy th...

• 2015 AND BIFF Mecenat Fund

New Currents

• France,SriLanka,Netherlands,Qatar
• 2016
• 84min

Set in a small northern Sri Lankan village in 1989, Burning Birds is a film critical of society. Director Sanjieewa Pushpakumara considers this society in which social violence is inflicted upon a female breadwinner. After an ille...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand,Netherlands,France,Qatar
• 2016
• 105min

Ann, a film director, wants to make a movie based on the massacre of university students at the hands of the military in turbulent 1970s Thailand. While preparing for the film, she meets and begins to interview Taew, a former stud...

Special Programs in Focus

• France,Iran,Italy,Belgium
• 2016
• 106min

For Abbas Kiarostami’s first feature drama made outside Iran (in Italy), British opera singer William Shimell made his acting debut with a dazzling performance alongside Juliette Binoche. James Miller, visiting Tuscany to promote...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2016
• 105min

Chronicles of Hari begins with two young documentary filmmakers interviewing Yakshagana artists. Yakshagana is a type of Indian folk theater in which all the characters are played by men. The documentary crew wants to research Har...

World Cinema

• Turkey,Germany,Poland,France
• 2016
• 105min

Chehnaz, an attractive, modern woman and her husband, Cem, live in a hip neighborhood in Istanbul. Chehnaz is sent to a public hospital in a remote seaside town in order to complete her mandatory 2-year training as an aspiring psy...

• 2014 APM Project