Wide Angle

• China
• 2016
• 19min

Thirteen-year-old Hu Wei’s parents die in an accident and he is forced to face the rest of life all by himself. Gossip about his parents constantly assails him, and he can do nothing but bear it alone.

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2016
• 24min

25-year-old Hyunji works at a restaurant to make money in order to go to Germany to study. The night before her departure, she finds a smaller amount than she expected has been deposited as her last salary, which causes a setback ...

New Currents

• Iran,Afghanistan
• 2016
• 78min

Having moved from Afghanistan to Iran with his family at the age of six, Parting is Navid Mahmoudi’s debut feature film, which explores the ongoing tragedy of illegal immigrants from Afghanistan. Nabi and Fereshteh are in love but...

World Cinema

• United States
• 2016
• 118min

Paterson is a bus driver and poet from the city of Paterson, New Jersey. Every day follows much the same pattern. After work, he returns home, has dinner with his wife Laura and walks his dog to the bar for just the one beer. Laur...

• Cannes Film Festival (In Competition)

World Cinema

• France
• 2016
• 105min

Maureen is a young American in Paris who works as a personal shopper for the famous fashionista, Kyra. Her days are filled with visits to brand name shops and designer ateliers to seek out and bring back clothes and accessories to...

• Best Director Award at Cannes Film Festival

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,Japan
• 2016
• 93min

A female university student walks from the subway station to her tutoring job. There’s a camera that follows her, continuing to film her in one single take. When she arrives at the apartment, however, nobody is home. She calls the...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2016
• 100min

Young police officer Choi Munoh is overworked and lousily paid. So bad in fact that his girlfriend threatens to leave him if he doesn’t quit his risky job, but he decides to stay. The chief of police, who is the dedicated and warm...

Special Programs in Focus

• Colombia
• 2016
• 10min

Special Programs in Focus

• Colombia
• 2016
• 98min

Pure Blood is the first feature length film by the Cali Group. Based on Andres Caicedo’s story, combined with Cali’s macabre legend of the Monster of Mangones, gave Luis Ospina and Alberto Quiroga the initial material for the film...

Gala Presentation

• Japan
• 2016
• 142min

This film reveals that “truth” to human beings is actually just an “easily shakable belief.” Lee Sang-il’s screen adaptation of Yoshida Shuichi’s original novel features a star-studded cast including Watanabe Ken, Miyazaki Aoi, Ts...