Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 2016
• 93min

It all began with a magazine article. One day in 1989, director Abbas Kiarostami happened to read an article about a young man in the Iranian magazine Sorush. One Hossain Sabzian impersonated director Mohsen Makhmalbaf to get mon...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2016
• 114min

Ordinary housewife Inyeong meets carpenter Huisu by chance in a cafe and for fun they decide to become coffee mates: friends who only meet in cafes and nowhere else. Although they don’t make calls or send texts, they can talk to e...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2016
• 122min

Korean society is extremely competitive, and sometimes you have to get dirt on your hands in order to survive. Of course, not all succeed after doing so. This is the case of the family in Come, Together. Middle-aged Bumgoo, his fa...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2016
• 21min

Hawon, whose matinee idol star “J” is a relative, asks her classmates to elect her as class president on condition that she get J’s autograph for them all. But the election brings an unexpected result.

Special Programs in Focus

• Colombia,France
• 2016
• 95min

Daniel arrives at the Afro-Colombian community of La Barra on Colombia’s Pacific coast, trying to flee his past. The upcoming clash between a remote village, modernity?when a landowner tries to build a beach resort?and the town’s ...

• Berlin Film Festival (Forum), 2010

Wide Angle

• Nepal,France
• 2016
• 16min

Some of the last residents living in a Nepalese village, Atimaley and Devi, have only each other and their past to keep them company. After a friend becomes the very last to leave, they ponder whether to move on or remain with the...

Gala Presentation

• France,Belgium,Japan
• 2016
• 130min

Parisian Jean is hired as an assistant to Stefan, a professional photographer who doggedly sticks to 19th century daguerreotype photographic processes. In order to take his best photos, he forces his daughter Marie to remain still...

World Cinema

• Bosnia and Herzegovina,France
• 2016
• 85min

Preparing for the 100th anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which sparked World War I, the Hotel Europe in Sarajevo is busy all day. The EU ambassador arrives at the penthouse for a gala dinner and TV cre...

• Silver Bear (Grand Jury Prize) at Berlin Film Festival

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2016
• 92min

Jinil and Gayeong are teenage runaways who live like a family with other runaway children. Sometimes they do some delivery work, sometimes they steal things to make their living. When they run out of money, they make Gayeong lure ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2016
• 105min

Natsuko is a natural-born, self-centered con artist. Her cousin, Tetsuko, is disciplined and has worked hard to become a successful attorney. Although Tetsuko is married and has a respectable job, she feels empty and alienated by ...