Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2015
• 160min

In the opening shot of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s masterpiece, A City of Sadness, a voice emanating from the radio declares the liberation of Taiwan from Japanese imperial rule. A lonesome island afloat in the evening. From that day on, un...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia,Korea
• 2015
• 121min

A man and a woman’s daily routines coincide with one another. Sari watches movies every day in her cramped room to get away from the fatigue of work. Alek also can’t escape from a dark small room where he works on subtitles for pi...

• Orizzonti at Venice International Film Festival / 2014 APM Project

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iraq
• 2015
• 97min

As it advances across Syria and Iraq, IS, the extremist militant group, poses a huge threat to the people in the region. Ghobadi turns his camera on those in the greatest immediate danger by visiting a Kurdish refugee camp on the ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,France
• 2015
• 86min

A man living rough scours the backstreets of Paris for his missing wife. In the red light district, he shows a photo of her to the prostitutes there, but no one seems to recognize her. How did he lose his wife? The couple had been...

• 2012 APM Project

Special Programs in Focus

• France
• 2015
• 102min

Claude Lelouch’s classic 1966 romance is as engaging and moving today as it was upon release. When a widow and a widower meet one Sunday evening at their children’s boarding school, it is the beginning of a cautious relationship i...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2015
• 28min

An old man spends everyday exactly the same way. A walk in the park, a cup of coffee, then back to the room where he lives alone. In order to make a living, he cleans a public bath, but one day he has an accident.

Special Programs in Focus

• France
• 2015
• 155min

Condemned to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena cannot read nor write. Arriving at the jail entirely alone, he appears younger and more fragile than the other convicts. He is 19 years old. Cornered by the leader of the Corsican...

Special Programs in Focus

• France
• 2015
• 92min

A story of passion, Jacques Demy’s 1982 musical unfolds in 1955 Nantes against the backdrop of a shipyard strike. Francois, a striking metalworker, is engaged to Violette when he meets and falls in love with Edith, a married woman...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2015
• 130min

A Tale of Three Cities deals with the desperate love of a couple who, separated by war, must find the strength to reach safety and be together. During the Sino-Japanese war, a widow and opium smuggler, Yuerong, and a widower, Daol...

Wide Angle

• China,France,United States
• 2015
• 106min

A Young Patriot documents four years in the life of Zhao, a post-90s Chinese idealist and ardent patriot. The film begins with 19-year-old Zhao participating in a massive protest related to the dispute between China and Japan over...

• 2013 AND Busan Bank Fund