World Cinema

• France,Switzerland
• 2015
• 73min

Pierre and Manon make documentary films together. They aren’t well-off financially, but that doesn't seem to bother them. One day, while researching for their next film, Pierre meets and sleeps with Elisabeth, a young woman who wo...

Midnight Passion

• France
• 2015
• 88min

Shot a mere few months before the Charlie Hebdo Shooting of January 2015, Inside the Cell’s story line bears close resemblance to what happened in reality. The plot follows Sam, a journalist who infiltrates the underground hardcor...

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2015
• 100min

For a predominant portion of their lives sisters, Eva and Nell lived with their parents near the redwood forests of Northern California, educated at home by their father, Sam a schoolteacher. All is well until humanity is struck b...

Flash Forward

• Guatemala,France
• 2015
• 91min

Maria, a young 17-year-old Mayan girl, lives and works with her parents on a coffee plantation on the foothills of an active volcano in Guatemala. An arranged marriage awaits her. Although Maria dreams of going to the big city, he...

• Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize at Berlin Film Festival

Wide Angle

• India
• 2015
• 85min

A. R. Rahman is India’s leading music composer who has worked for so many Bollywood films such as Dil se, Lagaan: Once Upon A Time In India, and since the early 1990s. His musical work for Slumdog Millionaire earned him the Acade...

World Cinema

• France
• 2015
• 98min

Jailbird opens with the scene of a woman receiving a physical examination as part of the intake process at a prison. The woman, Mathilde, helped her husband break out of jail, but in a cruel twist of fate finds herself locked up. ...

Wide Angle

• Brazil
• 2015
• 98min

Jia Zhang-ke, A Guy From Fenyang is the portrait of a young Chinese director who has become one of the most important filmmakers of our time. The documentary, directed by Walter Salles, dwells on the question of memory and cinema....

• Berlin Film Festival (Panorama)

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan,France
• 2015
• 128min

Since her husband Yusuke disappeared three years ago, Mizuki has led a lonely life, teaching piano to others in her community. That is until the day he reappears, telling her that he has been dead the entire time and asking her to...

• Directing Prize of Un Certain Regard, Cannes

Wide Angle

• Philippines
• 2015
• 15min

The papal visit has left dancers in a nightclub jobless. While waiting for the Pope to leave, Junilyn is forced to practice a few tricks her boss picked up from Thailand. Soon she realizes that there is no liberty in escape and th...

Special Programs in Focus

• France
• 2015
• 100min

Gaspard is a sports photographer. Alice is a successful lawyer. Nicolas is, for lack of a better word, an unemployed househusband. Gaspard and Alice are lovers, and Alice is married to Nicolas. This is the love triangle that ancho...