Wide Angle

• Canada
• 2016
• 104min

The Apology follows the personal journeys of three former “comfort women” who were among the 200,000 girls and young women kidnapped and forced into military sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Some 7...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2016
• 110min

Sixty-five-year-old Soyeong sells her body to old men in the Jongro area. She is popular among the other Bacchus ladies when her reputation as a woman who is ”fatally good at sex” goes viral among the old men. She lives with her t...

• Berlin Film Festival (Panorama)

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2016
• 88min

Dasgupta Buddhadeb, one of India’s most well-known independent film directors over the last 40 years, displays lyrical and cinematic charms in his most recent work, which reminds us of Fellini’s surrealistic mysticism and Makhmalb...

Flash Forward

• Italy
• 2016
• 92min

In this unusual Western, Pietro and Domenico set out to hunt a bear that is threatening a village in the mountains. The deeper they go into the forest, the closer the estranged father and son become. The Bear Skin is the debut fe...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2016
• 23min

Miyeon gets a job as an apprentice chicken sexer. Her work is to determine the sex of a chick. Believing that she will be able to become a regular employee, she works hard and patiently.

Open Cinema

• United States
• 2016
• 119min

Set against the antebellum South, The Birth of a Nation follows Nat Turner (Nate Parker), a literate slave and preacher, whose financially strained owner, Samuel Turner accepts an offer to use Nat’s preaching to subdue unruly slav...

• U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic and Audience Award at Sundance Film Festival

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2016
• 23min

A son, Youngmin, disappears suddenly. One year later, to his parents’ relief, Youngmin is found. However, his mother begins to notice strange things about Youngmin, and gradually comes to believe that he is not her son.

Wide Angle

• Canada
• 2016
• 16min

Francis must reconcile his relationship with his abusive father who suffers from Huntington’s Disease. Francis’ younger brother, Ed--the cameraman--records their dysfunctional lives with his Super 8 camera as their relationship wi...

Wide Angle

• India
• 2016
• 96min

A tent is pitched in the middle of the festival grounds and an old projector is readied for a screening. Light travels above the audience, gathering in the blissful moments as it’s reflected on the screen that hangs inside the dar...

• 2014 AND Busan Bank Fund

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Vietnam
• 2016
• 87min

A typical married couple who have spent a long, long together. The wife nitpicks at her husband for drinking too much beer, and he tells her off for gaining weight. Due to a lack of economic affluence, a moneylender visits their h...