A Window on Asian Cinema

• Cambodia,France,Germany,Thailand,Qatar
• 2016
• 101min

A little known story, but one worth telling is the story of the hopes and dreams of younger generations in a fast-developing world. Development has been repeated many times, but not enough to depict the stories of the faces and vo...

• Cannes Film Festival (Critics' Week), 2014 APM Project, 2014 ACF Script Development Fund

Wide Angle

• Czech Republic
• 2016
• 95min

Lida Baarova: an actress whose beauty was her greatest gift as well as her curse. As a young, attractive girl she quickly became the leading Czechoslovak movie star and was able to captivate the most feared men of her era, Joseph ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2016
• 93min

Wen Jie meets and befriends Yang Dan, an actress, at a theater workshop. She also meets her boyfriend, Li Yihuan. A strange emotional vibe develops between the trio, and, when Li Yihuan’s father goes bankrupt, the three new friend...

World Cinema

• Austria,Luxembourg
• 2016
• 109min

In the early 20th century, expressionist artist Egon Schiele was one of the most provocative in Austria. The film begins in 1918 when Schiele is dying and then flips back to 1910 when he first became household name. Egon Schiele: ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia
• 2016
• 77min

This film tells the story of a rich family in 1960’s South Sulawesi, Indonesia, where polygamy was practiced at the time. Athirah is a housewife who lives happily with her husband and son. But her life turns upside down when it’s ...

World Cinema

• Chile,France
• 2016
• 128min

Twenty-year-old Alejandrito travels to Santiago against his parents’ wishes. Full of energy for life and desire for creativity, he joins a group of young intellectual artists who are experimenting with avant-garde fashion. Here, h...

• Cannes Film Festival (Directors′ Fortnight)

World Cinema

• Colombia,Sweden,Denmark
• 2016
• 72min

On the remote island of Faro in Sweden a woman experiences the death of her mother. ”As she died, my dream was born, for her return”. In Colombia a mother attempts to soothe her spirit by attending healing workshops with other wom...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2016
• 110min

Jeongho, the son of a government official, and Jaok, a government minister’s daughter, are in love. Jaok’s father doesn’t approve of the relationship and sends her away to be a concubine for the king?a move that could all too know...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2016
• 93min

A thriller about a contract killer who wants to retire. Ben used to have a wife and son but ended up lonely after living for decades traversing the dark underworld. He wants to make a clean break, not just from his employer but al...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2016
• 111min

In February 2014, the deaf composer Samuragochi, once dubbed Japan’s Beethoven, publicly confessed that another composer had been helping him write his music. The confession was provoked by a magazine expose by the shadow composer...