Flash Forward

• Germany
• 2015
• 89min

The life of Jorg Geissner, a German banker, totally transforms with a visit to Paladiki Island, Greece. A business trip to check on a project called “Galapagos in Greece” by the islanders and for which his bank extended a loan and...

Special Programs in Focus

• France
• 2015
• 115min

Oscar’s day is filled with going back and forth between several lives. He is at the top of his industry, an assassin, a beggar and a monster and simultaneously a loving husband and father. He is accompanied only by Celine, his lim...

Flash Forward

• Czech Republic,SlovakRepublic
• 2015
• 81min

In rural Czech Republic, Vlasta is a caregiver for the sick. After walking long distances every day, carrying a heavy nurse’s bag, she comes home where she lives with her husband Lada. But no one takes care of Vlasta. After gettin...

Wide Angle

• Hong Kong,China
• 2015
• 85min

Internationally acclaimed cinematographer Christopher Doyle’s experimental fake documentary observes three generations of Hong Kong residents from two points of view. The resident’s point of view and the outsider’s point of view ...

Wide Angle

• Iceland,Denmark
• 2015
• 85min

The new work by Oscar-nominated director Fridrik Thor Fridriksson is dedicated to Icelandic landscape painter Georg Guðni Hauksson, who passed away in 2011 at age 50. Fascinated by such moments as when “the earth melts and changes...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2015
• 30min

The world’s best jade can be found around volatile Hpakant, Myanmar. For many residents of Hpakant, options for a better life are limited, and can mean either leaving home, engaging in drug trafficking or hoping for a windfall wor...

Wide Angle

• France
• 2015
• 90min

Luc Jacquet, director of March of the Penguins (2005), returns to Antarctica, but this time for a portrait of Claude Lorius, a French explorer and scientist researching climate change. By studying Antarctic glaciers, it was he tha...

• Closing Film at Cannes Film Festival

New Currents

• Iran
• 2015
• 94min

Young Ebrahim lives with his grandfather Ayaz, a guilt-ridden old man, who suffers unbearably following the loss of his family in an accident. His remorse is not without reason; Ayaz was driving the bus on the way back home from a...

Wide Angle

• United States
• 2015
• 190min

Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City is one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse communities in the United States and the world. There are immigrants from every country in South America, Mexico, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Af...

• Venice International Film Festival

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong,China,Singapore
• 2015
• 104min

Set in a hotel room and spanning several decades, Eric KHOO’s most recent film recounts episodic tales of love, life, and desire for a multicultural cast of characters who make love, fight, fall into despair, and experience fear, ...