Wide Angle

• Thailand
• 2016
• 102min

Laborers and travelers are aboard a train in Thailand accompanied by the repetitive sound of running wheels. The train, a symbol of industrialization, is a microcosm of life in Railway Sleepers. Passengers in third class cabins do...

• 2014 AND BIFF Mecenat Fund

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2016
• 118min

A bedridden tetraplegic mother and her middle-aged son Manohar, who is a street bookseller, move into an apartment. In the same building lives Shobha, a young Tamil woman who settled in Calcutta with her husband and whose marriage...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,United States
• 2016
• 110min

A Korean couple travel across the desert to an island in Utah’s Great Salt Lake, which is not only a famous tourist attraction, but the location they have chosen for their double suicide. The man used to be a baseball player, but ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 2016
• 32min

This film by Abbas Kiarostami, impressive in his philosophical narration regarding nature, is a black and white documentary compiling and re-filming the director’s collection of “road” pictures taken over several decades. The scen...

Wide Angle

• Austria,Denmark
• 2016
• 92min

Hunters from Germany and Austria track down wild animals like the bushbuck, impala, zebra, and gnu on the open plains of Africa. Firing their rifles, the hunters shout with excitement and then pose in front of dead animal carcasse...

• Venice Film Festival (Out of Competition)

World Cinema

• Romania,Germany
• 2016
• 141min

In the summer of 1937, young Emmanuel is diagnosed with tuberculosis and stays in a nursing home on the coast of the Black Sea. He is essentially tied to the bed after undergoing spinal surgery, but his days are not all gloomy bec...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2016
• 69min

Hyunho and Junghee are in their 20s and have been married for two years. Dreaming of becoming an actor, Hyunho quits his job and begins going to acting auditions. Junghee can’t find a job because of the fact that she’s married. ...

World Cinema

• Romania
• 2016
• 173min

It’s a Saturday in Bucharest. The camera pans around through a busy street under construction and captures an SUV looking for a place to stop to pick up the family. It also captures a mother and daughter waiting restlessly for the...

• Cannes Film Festival (In Competition)

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Malaysia,Philippines
• 2016
• 143min

Pepe has been an impersonator of legendary rock musician Joey Smith for thirty years. He ekes out a living by singing at a shabby bar, his performances gradually getting worse. Nevertheless, his heart is full of the rock n’ roll s...

• Venice Film Festival (Critics Week)

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2016
• 15min

Ximending was once the trendiest place in Taipei. It was also the shooting location for Lee Kang-sheng’s first leading feature film, Rebels of the Neon God. Twenty years later, Lee returns to where everything started and makes a f...