Wide Angle

• France
• 2015
• 82min

This coming-of-age road movie begins in a remote village protected by the spirits of the cliffs. Ominous music heralds the beginning of young Adama’s journey to find his brother; one that will take him to an outside world overshad...

World Cinema

• Romania,Bulgaria,Czech Republic
• 2015
• 105min

In 19th century Romania, Costandin, a policeman of the time, and his son Ionita travel through the south of the country in search of a fugitive Gypsy slave. Costandin is a charismatic mixture between a funny Stalin and a somewhat ...

• Silver Bear (Best Director) at Berlin Film Festival

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2015
• 137min

Director Tsai Ming Liang and actor Lee Kang-sheng have worked on films together for almost twenty years. They have become the closest of companions. But do they really know each other that well? Afternoon is a film that gives a gl...

• Venice International Film Festival

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2015
• 120min

In 2009 the High Court of Delhi reached the verdict that homosexuality wasn’t a crime. However, in 2013, the Supreme Court of India overturned this decision. Based on a true story, Aligarh is a film that explores India’s anachroni...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2015
• 90min

It’s broad daylight in a shantytown and a man witnesses a woman being murdered by masked men on the rooftop of a nearby building. He tries to surreptitiously take a photo the event but is seen. He runs away and hides in his studio...

• 2015 ACF Post-Production Fund

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2015
• 23min

A young high school girl tells her father, a pastor, about her pregnancy, and he begins to treat her as if she is the Virgin Mary. Soon, members of her father’s church visit her, pleading for mercy and forgiveness for their sins.

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2015
• 109min

Anna is an independent photojournalist investigating a human trafficking and child prostitution network in Asia. On her journey to the root of all evil, she meets Sam, a fixer who will intervene decisively in her destiny. Sam is a...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2015
• 111min

After spending seven years in Taiwan, Sujang, a Korean-Chinese man, returns to Busan to search for his missing wife, Eunim, who abruptly left him after having a miscarriage. Sujang seeks out old friends throughout the city in orde...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2015
• 90min

A woman living with her paralyzed mother takes on part-time jobs to get by. At times she works as a dancer promoting new businesses and at others as a decorator prepping wedding hall venues. Resentful of her father and unhappy wit...

• 2015 ACF Post-Production Fund

Special Programs in Focus

• India
• 2015
• 110min

*an extract from an original writing for Asian Cinema 100 Sixty years after its 1955 premiere, the charm of Satyajit Ray’s The Apu Trilogy ? Pather Panchali (1955), Aparajito (1956), and Apur Sansar (1959) ? endures. The films...