Wide Angle

• United States,Argentina,Australia,India,Japan,UK
• 2016
• 106min

Vignettes of modern love in all of its dizzying, sweet complications, culminating in one iconoclastic anthology. The film takes a passionate trip around the world with filmmakers Gael Garcia Bernal, Sion Sono, Anurag Kashyap, and ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2016
• 90min

To avoid her oppressive father and brothers, Hanna claims she has been kidnapped and requires a ransom. With the money, she runs away with her lover Murry. They hitch a ride to Tehran with street musician Azie, but things don’t go...

• Venice Film Festival (Orizzonti)

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2016
• 95min

In the first of Lee Doo Yong’s taekwondo films, Japanese karate instructor Sasaki, Chinese martial arts master Wang, and Korean taekwondo expert Lee fight over a chest of gold that’s earmarked for the Korean Independence Army. A b...

Flash Forward

• Spain
• 2016
• 96min

Following her mother’s death, Maria is left to care for her father and her siblings. When her brothers leave home, she has to lay aside her dreams of becoming a writer to look after her cancer-stricken father. One day, when the en...

• BNK Busan Bank Award candidate

Flash Forward

• Germany,Switzerland
• 2016
• 101min

While working in Germany as a hotel maid, Ukrainian woman Marija dreams of opening her own beauty salon. But when she is discovered stealing earrings, she is fired and her means of achieving her dream evaporate in an instant. She ...

World Cinema

• Spain
• 2016
• 127min

August 2011 in Madrid. A record-breaking heat wave hovers oppressively over the city as 1.5 million citizens await the Pope’s visit. Despite the tight security, there occur rape-murders of several elderly people. Two bad-tempered ...

Wide Angle

• Hong Kong,China
• 2016
• 84min

When an invading space monster destroys the superhero sent to repel him, a world competition is launched to seek the best super robot to fight the monster. McDull is an average boy growing up in a fishing village and dreaming of b...

Wide Angle

• Indonesia,EastTimor
• 2016
• 35min

Maria is one of the female victims of sexual violence in East Timor in their dark years of independence. The past is past, but Maria always felt that her body has never been her own. She saw that the possibility could happen as we...

Wide Angle

• Romania
• 2016
• 74min

Mercy Street is an adventure story about Lorenz, who saves his village from a bad guy. Music-loving, adventurous little Lorenz finds a mysterious secret passage in the forest. On returning to the village to announce this news, Lor...

New Currents

• Korea
• 2016
• 101min

Mo Geumsan, a barber living in the countryside, is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Up to now, he has lived a routine life: He wakes up, works at the barbershop, exercises in the swimming pool, and drinks at the same bar every d...

• 2016 ACF Post-Production Fund