Wide Angle

• Italy,France
• 2016
• 90min

A masterwork about the status of child trafficking in the Third World. The film begins with a poor family in the developing world. A father is away in a foreign country to earn money, a mother sustains her two sons in poverty, and...

Special Programs in Focus

• Colombia
• 2016
• 208min

It All Started at the End, focuses on two of Cali Croup’s central figures, Andres Caicedo and Carlos Mayolo as seen by Luis Ospina, who presents himself as the narrative prologue and epilogue. Along with testimony by the group’s f...

World Cinema

• Hungary
• 2016
• 81min

Eszter, Farkas, and their five-year-old son Bruno are an ordinary middle-class family. On one night, Esther’s sister Ernella, her husband Albert, and their daughter Laura return home after having left to start a new life in Scotla...

World Cinema

• Canada,France
• 2016
• 95min

After 12 years of absence, Louis, a terminally ill writer goes back to his hometown, planning on announcing his upcoming death to his family. As resentment rewrites the course of the afternoon, feuds among his family including his...

• Grand Prix at Cannes Film Festival

Wide Angle

• Spain
• 2016
• 90min

Beginning with Flamenco in 1995 and Flamenco, Flamenco in 2010, the dance form’s pre-eminent advocate finishes the unofficial trilogy with J: Beyond Flamenco. Director Carlos Saura, a native of Aragon, turns his camera on his home...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2016
• 138min

Meehee meets a high school girl. She follows the girl and ends up at the house of Cho Sungsook. Although it’s the first time they’ve met, Meehee insists that they were once actually close friends. Sungsook accepts Meehee’s claim a...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2016
• 100min

Sohyun, a runaway, is left alone after her close friend Jungho disappears. By accident, she gets to know a transgender woman named Jane. She joins Jane and her close-knit community of runaways, who are as comforting and loving as ...

• 2016 ACF Post-Production Fund

World Cinema

• Spain,United States
• 2016
• 99min

Julieta lives in Madrid with her young daughter, Antia. The two are suffering in unbearable silence over the recent loss of Xoan, Antia’s father and Julieta’s husband. The emotions mother and daughter must endure cause a rift to f...

• Cannes Film Festival (In Competition)

World Cinema

• Belgium,Netherlands,Bulgaria
• 2016
• 94min

Nicholas III, king of Belgium, is visiting Istanbul. To improve the boring image of royalty, he begins his official schedule with a British documentary filmmaker, but following the unexpected news that Wallonia has declared indepe...

• Venice Film Festival (Orizzonti)

New Currents

• China
• 2016
• 93min

Wang Xuebo’s debut feature film focuses on the mutual understanding between a man and a cow. In a mountain village in Ningxia, China, where the Hui people live, old man Majishan’s wife passes away, and his family decides to do a p...