Special Programs in Focus

• Iran,France
• 2016
• 117min

Abbas Kiarostami presents a man whose interest in death turns into an epiphany that reveals the value of life and nature. A group of reporters from Tehran arrive in a small Kurdish village near the Iranian border, in order to cov...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2016
• 94min

Elementary school student Seon is regularly bullied and when she is left alone in the classroom on the last day of term, she meets a transfer student named Jia. They become close through sharing their secrets and spend the whole s...

• Berlin Film Festival (Generation)

Wide Angle

• Lebanon,Qatar,Armenia,France
• 2016
• 84min

Those from the Shore is a documentary about Armenian refugees living in Marseille, France, and demonstrates how France’s refugee policy operates with indifference. Some Armenians forced to leave their home to avoid imprisonment or...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong,China,China
• 2016
• 88min

Three is a medical action drama directed by the master of Hong Kong noir, Johnnie To. In a hospital ward, where life and death continually cross each other, the three protagonists have mingled feelings of fate. A neurosurgeon obse...

Special Programs in Focus

• Iran,France
• 2016
• 103min

This is the last in the Koker Trilogy, following Where is the Friend’s Home and And Life goes on. After stories of a boy searching for his friend’s home, and a film director searching for the boys, out of touch due to an earthquak...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2016
• 74min

This film talks about five free spirits as the director encounters them. Freedom in this film is not romantic but desperate, trying to break the chains of life that drive people living today in one direction. They dream of a life ...

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2016
• 162min

The elderly Winfried wants to reconnect with his corporate go-getting daughter Ines. When his old dog dies, he leaves behind his meaningless life and becomes “Tony” to play the best prank of his life. “Tony” the eccentric life coa...

• FIPRESCI Prize at Competition, Cannes Film Festival

Midnight Passion

• United States
• 2016
• 86min

On a remote desert highway a makeshift Border Patrol checkpoint is manned by three agents: Flores who has an uncanny ability to track, Davis who joined the Border Patrol with dreams of romancing senoritas and riding on horseback, ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kyrgyzstan
• 2016
• 92min

Traveling with the Bomb is a road movie that addresses the controversial practice of bride kidnapping, which still happens in Kyrgyzstan. Having attended university in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Ikhtiandr returns to Issyk Kul, his hometo...

Flash Forward

• UK
• 2016
• 94min

Una, based on David Harrower’s play Blackbird, follows a young woman’s journey to reclaim her past. Fifteen years earlier, Una ran away with an older man, Ray, a crime for which he was arrested and imprisoned. When she comes acros...