World Cinema

• Portugal,France,Germany,Switzerland
• 2015
• 125min

Using the classic One Thousand and One Nights as a foundation, Miguel Gomes follows up Tabu with his most ambitious film yet. Told in three parts, Gomes crafts an equally surreal and painfully realistic tapestry that ultimately re...

World Cinema

• Portugal,France,Germany,Switzerland
• 2015
• 132min

Using the classic One Thousand and One Nights as a foundation, Miguel Gomes follows up Tabu with his most ambitious film yet. Told in three parts, Gomes crafts an equally surreal and painfully realistic tapestry that ultimately re...

World Cinema

• Portugal,France,Germany,Switzerland
• 2015
• 125min

Using the classic One Thousand and One Nights as a foundation, Miguel Gomes follows up Tabu with his most ambitious film yet. Told in three parts, Gomes crafts an equally surreal and painfully realistic tapestry that ultimately re...

Flash Forward

• France,Tunisie,Belgium,United Arab Emirates
• 2015
• 102min

In Tunis, 2010, several months before the Arab Spring, 18-year-old Farah, fresh from school, sings along with a band, despite her mother Hayet’s dissuasion. Hayet wants her to become a doctor, while Farah seeks freedom, independen...

• Venice International Film Festival (Venice Days)

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2015
• 79min

Ashes to Ashes is a character documentary about a man’s daily life of holding funerals for those who died without family. Kang Bonghee cleans and shrouds the corpses, furnishes caskets and cremates bodies, and settles the left art...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2015
• 139min

Under Japanese occupation in 1933, Joseon’s provisional government plans to assassinate Kawaguchi Mamoru, the Japanese occupation force’s commander in Korea, and pro-Japanese collaborator Gang Ingook. Yeom Seokjin, by Kim Gu’s ord...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2015
• 90min

This is the second feature film by Morteza Farshbaf, who won the New Currents Award at the Busan International Film Festival with his debut film Mourning. One of the judges, director Yonfan, had commented that he “set a new standa...

Wide Angle

• Palestine,France,Germany
• 2015
• 14min

The nuns of the Sisters of Mercy Convent, located in the middle of the West Bank wilderness, have their daily routine of silence and prayer disrupted when a family of Jewish settlers seeks help after crashing their vehicle into th...

• Cannes Film Festival (In Competition ? Short Films)

Open Cinema

• India
• 2015
• 137min

Shivudu, a salubrious young man with a long-held secret, spots a mask protruding from a waterfall. Struggling against the stream, he draws closer to it in the hopes of discovering its wearer’s identity. To his surprise, he meets a...

Flash Forward

• Germany,Kosovo,Macedonia,France
• 2015
• 104min

In Kosovo, before the Balkan Wars erupt, Gesim, a cigarette-seller and father, suddenly leaves home. Ten-year-old Nori sets out for Germany, going through pitifully dangerous encounters in a harsh, stark country, only to find his ...