A Window on Asian Cinema

• United States,India
• 2016
• 85min

Mi Amor is the sixth film from Suman Ghosh, who is well-known to BIFF. By focusing on the gap between the rich and the poor as well as the conflicts between generations, his previous films set out to discover the value of universa...

Flash Forward

• Spain,France,Morocco,Qatar
• 2016
• 93min

A dying Arabian Sheikh travels across the Moroccan Atlas Mountains in a caravan to be buried in his hometown. When he dies along the way, most of the caravan give up the journey for fear of the mountain. Only Ahmed and Said keep t...

• Nespresso Grand Prize at Critics′ Week, Cannes Film Festival

Open Cinema

• India
• 2016
• 132min

Inspired by Mirza Sahiban, one of India’s most tragic love stories, this new film entitled Mirzya is an epic story of love defying destiny, cleverly portrayed with frequent flashbacks. A boy and a girl are best friends but after a...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2016
• 24min

One winter night, the man lying down in an empty room alone cannot get to sleep because of an unidentified noise. The man, whose mother recently passed away, finds the source of the noise later.

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2016
• 22min

After the father’s funeral, a family decides to scatter the ashes into a river, as suggested by their mother. But when they reach the riverside, the son experiences inner conflict when looking at his father’s ashes.

World Cinema

• Italy,United States,France
• 2016
• 105min

In a nearly abandoned village at the base of a mountain, Agostino, his wife Nina and son Giovanni live in near poverty. Blocking out the sun, the mountain has reduced Agostino’s farm to useless dust, rendering what little he grows...

• Venice Film Festival (Out of Competition)

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Malaysia,Hong Kong,China
• 2016
• 96min

Mrs. K, an upper class housewife, appears to be a beautiful and elegant middle-aged woman focused only on cooking and parenting. But a sudden turn of events shockingly reveals her actual skills are in fighting and survival. The ur...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2016
• 186min

The Iranian master filmmaker Majid Majidi’s epic drama about the prophet Muhammad, from the time of his birth until the age of thirteen. This film is the first part of a trilogy planned to depict the life of Muhammad. With the hig...

Midnight Passion

• Japan
• 2016
• 132min

A body mauled to death by dogs is found and other heinous murders follow. Mysterious notes are left at the crime scenes, hinting the killings were done to punish each victim and the bodies presented in a way as though to be found....

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2016
• 112min

Mei Bao is a 32-year old woman working in a frozen foods company. She enjoys her job and the product she makes, believing that her mother expressed her love through the many frozen dinners she prepared for her as a child and that ...