Open Cinema

• Japan
• 2015
• 86min

Among Studio Ghibli animations, this film has been beloved for the longest time by the broadest audience. In the late 1950s, a college professor father and his two young daughters, Satsuki and Mei, move to a remote village in orde...

Special Programs in Focus

• France
• 2015
• 180min

Twenty-nine-year-old Paul is a reluctant teacher, aspiring doctoral candidate and would-be archaeologist living a half-life. Living with a cousin and romantically attached to Esther for a decade, Paul finally reaches a breaking po...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2015
• 105min

An overcast sky over a northern Iranian city on the Caspian Sea symbolizes the life of Nahid, a recent divorcee and single mother. Struggling through life with her adolescent son, she finds a new love. But she can not accept the m...

• Promizing Future Prize Ex-aequo of Un Certain Regard, Cannes

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2015
• 26min

Filipina Nia, working in Taiwan, has carefully cultivated a boundary between her and her employers, keeping to herself?much to the displeasure of her boss. The resulting tension is the basis for this resonant, recognizable film ab...

New Currents

• Korea
• 2015
• 235min

Chinese director Wang Bing is well known for TieXiQu: West of the Tracks, his nine-hour documentary. Korean film critic Jung Sung-il is famous for long, prolix film reviews. So it is no surprise that this film’s intro?over four ho...

Midnight Passion

• Canada
• 2015
• 88min

Husband and wife, Will and Dawn, are in financial crisis after learning the job Will was counting on to salvage their financial future has disappeared in the midst of market collapse. They set out to drive home on the winter highw...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2015
• 138min

Mumbai in 2015 is the center of India’s economy as well as the trendy, hip city of youth. O Kadhal Kanmani is a romantic drama set in Mumbai?the love story of a couple that is irresistibly energetic and full of youthful vigor. Tar...

Wide Angle

• Philippines
• 2015
• 10min

3 old ladies with one grandson attend their friend′s funeral. And they ride the infamous Octopus ride at a local carnival, and continue to mourn together at the friend’s house right after the funeral to argue who′s going to die ne...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2015
• 126min

Ode to My Father was a box office smash with over 10 million cinema admissions in 2015. As a child, Deoksu experiences and lives through the Korean War. His parents take a boat heading south, but he is separated from his father at...

• Berlin Film Festival (Panorama)

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2015
• 111min

When Mr. Kim disappears after apparently killing his entire family, the police question his colleagues about things relating to him at work. Intern Mirye, who is close to Mr. Kim, is pressured by the company to say nothing. She al...

• Cannes Film Festival (Out of Competition)