World Cinema

• Poland,Sweden
• 2016
• 104min

In 1990, Eastern Europe’s communist community falls apart. The wind of change and freedom rushes into Poland, yet the future still seems uncertain. At this time there are four women who are unhappy with their hopeless love: Agata ...

• Silver Bear (Best Screenplay) at Berlin Film Festival

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2016
• 19min

The owner of a laundry watches a boy dancing late at night through its CCTV. Noticing he is wearing a hearing aid, the owner assumes the boy has hearing impairment, and begins to imagine his life.

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2016
• 75min

Kianush is a street musician who plays violin on the streets of Tehran. His life is tough as he lives with his cousin and supports his family living in his hometown, but he enjoys his life with music. One day, a piano-playing girl...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand
• 2016
• 121min

Nob leads a happy life in a small town with his wife and young son. But when his son dies and his wife leaves him, he is unable to cope. Even others in the village turn their backs on him. He becomes lonely and feels completely de...

Flash Forward

• Germany
• 2016
• 84min

One day 15 years earlier in Windholm Beach, the waters disappear in an unprecedented phenomenon. So do the children in the village, leaving traumatized parents behind. Their sorrows are all the worse since there is no evidence tha...

• BNK Busan Bank Award candidate

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2016
• 98min

This is a story about the gay choir G-voice. Formed in 2003, G-voice is a way to tell stories about sexual minorities through music as well as a place of amity and healing. The film focuses on individual members as they gather tog...

• Panorama Audience Award at Berlin Film Festival

Midnight Passion

• Japan
• 2016
• 78min

One afternoon, a young woman gets across by bicycle in front of a man pulling a two-wheeled cart. The man named Kosuke avoids a bustle of the city and is living in a mountain lodge. He used to play an active role as a playwright, ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 2016
• 77min

The title, Where is the Friend’s Home, comes from a poem by renowned Iranian poet and artist Sohrab Seperi. It is generally believed that this film not only brought the whole world’s attention to Abbas Kiarostami’s directorial pre...

New Currents

• Taiwan
• 2016
• 95min

The debut feature film by Chu Hsien-Che, who made several documentaries, White Ant is a psychological drama that tells a story about sexual fetishism. Bai Yide is a young man living alone. He works at a bookstore and derives sexua...

Midnight Passion

• Japan
• 2016
• 80min

One passionate story ? a young woman bets her life on an exceptional love beyond the gender. Tokiko, a ceramic artist, and her apprentice Haruka. Two females are in a relationship. The couple is not an intrinsic lesbian, but they ...