Special Programs in Focus

• France
• 2015
• 105min

At a boarding school in the lakeside town of Heiligenstadt, introverted Vincent keeps to himself and misses his mother. His only enjoyment is looking after deer at the school. Vincent sees Marianne, a girl accompanying an old man ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India,France
• 2015
• 103min

Devi spends the night in a hotel with his college friend Piyush, but is discovered and arrested by the police. When the police threaten Piyush’s father with telling everyone what she′s done, the father, a Sanskrit professor, start...

• Fipresci Prize at Un Certain Regard, Cannes

Open Cinema

• Hong Kong,China
• 2015
• 117min

In this family-friendly, live-action/3D animation mashup set in a mythical medieval world, monsters live side by side with humans?although in separate realms. When turmoil erupts in the land of the monsters, its queen is forced to...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Pakistan,United States
• 2015
• 87min

This is a story of an old man who tries to protect a train station from the capitalism’s rapaciousness. In the course of his struggle, he makes up with his son, who is obsessed only with achieving financial success. In the desola...

Opening Film & Closing Film

• China,United States
• 2015
• 117min

In a remote mountain village, a recent immigrant La Hong dies after stepping on explosives that young villager Han Chong set-up to catch a badger. The elders of the village force Han Chong to care for La Hong’s mute wife Hong Xia ...

Gala Presentation

• China,Japan,France
• 2015
• 126min

The Chinese title of Jia Zhangke’s wonderful film, Shan He Gu Ren, is a saying that’s hard to translate. In essence, it compares unchanging, age-old landscapes with the instabilities of human lives. The film is in three chapters, ...

• Cannes Film Festival (In Competition)

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan,Hong Kong,China
• 2015
• 119min

Brother and sister Nan and Mei have grown up together on beautiful Green Island off the western coast of Taiwan, listening to their mother’s bedtime tales of magical mermaids. But after their mother and father divorce, Mei moves t...

Flash Forward

• France,Germany,Turkey,Qatar
• 2015
• 97min

Following their mother's death, five vivacious sisters are brought up in a remote village by their grandmother and father in a family ordered by tradition and virtue. The more the girls' desire for love and freedom grows, the hars...

• Europa Cinemas Label Prize at Directors' Fortnight, Cannes, Venice International Film Festival (Venice Days)

World Cinema

• France
• 2015
• 123min

My Golden Days is a prequel to Arnaud Desplechin’s debut, My Sex Life… Or How I got into an Argument (1996). When Paul Dedalus returns to France after living in Tajikistan for several years, he is detained at the airport and quest...

• SACD Prize Award at Directors' Fortnight, Cannes

Wide Angle

• China
• 2015
• 83min

A number of recent documentary films have grappled with the issue of migrant workers in China. The interest in such a topic may be because these lower-class workers are still victims of discrimination and prejudice despite their s...

• 2012 AND Dongseo Asia Fund