Flash Forward

• Russia,France,Germany
• 2016
• 87min

Natasha is a middle-aged woman who is often ridiculed by her colleagues for her unattractive looks and low self-esteem. One day she discovers a long tail growing out of her backside. Even the hospital is mystified by the tail and ...

World Cinema

• Poland,Ireland
• 2015
• 81min

A jealous husband out of control, his sexy actress wife, a sleazy Hollywood director, a reckless drug messenger, a disoriented young woman, an ex-con hot dog vendor, a troubled student on a mysterious mission, a high-rise window c...

• Venice International Film Festival (In Competition)

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Palestine,France,Jordan,Lebanon,United Arab Emirates,Qatar
• 2015
• 103min

The first feature length fiction film by Palestinian documentary filmmaker Mai Masri, 3,000 Nights vividly captures the reality of the lives of Palestinian women imprisoned in an Israeli prison and of the children born there. Lay...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Singapore
• 2015
• 99min

There is funny consistency in the films of Singaporean filmmaker Royston Tan: All of the titles of his films have numbers in them. 3688’s title represents the number given to Xia Fei Fei as a participant on a talent show. In her l...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2015
• 116min

Gwang-soo, a promising teenaged swimmer, skips training regularly because he is overconfident of his ability. His violent coach gives up on him and Gwang-soo quit swimming. Years later, Gwang-soo works as a swimming instructor. El...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Singapore
• 2015
• 116min

Seven of Singapore’s most illustrious filmmakers, including Boo Junfeng, Eric Khoo, K Rajagopal, Jack Neo, Tan Pin Pin, Royston Tan, and Kelvin Tong, have gathered their creative storytelling and filmmaking talents to create a one...

Gala Presentation

• Italy
• 2015
• 125min

Legendary rock star Marianne (Tilda Swinton) is on vacation with her film director husband Paul in the Mediterranean. She communicates with him only using her body language and facial expression in order to save her voice. Mariann...

• Venice International Film Festival (In Competition)

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2015
• 92min

A masterpiece of 1960s Korean horror, A Bloodthirsty Killer helped to establish many of the motifs that would appear in subsequent films of the genre, including ghosts with no reflections, a portrait of a vindictive woman, and a c...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2015
• 95min

Gangjae is a middle-aged family man living with a daughter, a high school senior, and a trustworthy and supportive wife. He tells his wife that he will marry her again in the next life, but he once had a secret passion she knows n...

Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2015
• 237min

A Brighter Summer Day was inspired by a true incident, a touchstone from Yang’s youth: the killing of a 14-year-old girl by a male high school student in Taipei on June 15, 1961. Yang frames the film with recitations over the radi...