A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia
• 2015
• 90min

In a love story that seems like a combination of Romeo and Juliet and Tom and Jerry, Rumi and Yulia are friends who grew up together in the same village. But they have to keep their distance from each other since their parents do ...

Flash Forward

• UK
• 2015
• 86min

Richard, 15 with learning difficulties, longs to put down roots but his restless and destructive brother, Polly, needs to keep moving. When the land they live on is bought by a new landowner, and the electricity supply to their ca...

World Cinema

• Mexico
• 2015
• 92min

David Wilson is a nurse who cares for terminally ill patients. His thorough nursing, which gets him closer to his patients than even their own families, is sometimes misunderstood, but he stays by his patients’ sides and carries o...

• Best Screenplay Award at Cannes Film Festival

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2015
• 100min

During a quarrel, Cheolwoong impulsively lets his fiancee get out of their car and drives off. Upon returning to the scene, he finds her corpse, having fallen victim to a serial killer. The incident ruins Cheolwoong, leaving him t...

Flash Forward

• Uruguay
• 2015
• 83min

Thirty-five-year old Taekwondo instructor Clever’s life doesn’t match up with his name. His wife has dumped him, and no part in the world welcomes him. He tries to be a good dad but it is not easy. The only pleasure left for him i...

Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 2015
• 90min

It all started from a magazine article. In 1989, Abbas Kiarostami read an article in an Iranian magazine called Sorush. It was about a guy who impersonated Mohsen Makhmalbaf and tried to extort his film production costs from a mid...

Flash Forward

• Canada
• 2015
• 90min

Oscar Madly is an imaginative “only-child” in St. John, Newfoundland, whose closest friend is a pet hamster named Buffy. If his life wasn’t challenging enough being caught in the middle of his parents’ turbulent divorce, Oscar is ...

Open Cinema

• Korea
• 2015
• 94min

Bakgu, unable to get a decent job, participates a pharmaceutical company’s experiment for money, turns into Fish Man and is detained at their lab. A TV Producer and his girlfriend head over there upon hearing about the Fish Man, h...

Gala Presentation

• China,Korea,Japan,Thailand
• 2015
• 96min

For the Gala Presentation this year, we are proud to present for the first time Color of Asia - Masters, a joint project among BIFF, Youku (China’s largest streaming site) and Heyi Pictures Inc.. Participating in this project are ...

Wide Angle

• China,Korea,Nepal,Thailand
• 2015
• 85min

Color of Asia - Newcomers 1.Lonely Hearts A young financier who is on the edge of going bankrupt is unexpected to be obsessed with paintings of an independent painter living in seclusion. The financier drives to the cabin where...