Special Programs in Focus

• China
• 2015
• 93min

In China’s official film history, Fei Mu is labeled as an ideologically irresolute petit bourgeois artist, because he never joined the Leftist filmmakers camp. Fei Mu’s final work Spring in a Small Town was criticized as “spreadin...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2015
• 83min

Each night, a homeless girl stays in abandoned houses to get by. In the winter, she leaves the cold environs of Seoul and heads to Busan, eventually finding an empty house in an abandoned part of town. She starts looking for a way...

• 2015 ACF Post-Production Fund

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2015
• 92min

Still and All is a story about the souls living beneath the Yeongdo Bridge in Busan. Yeongdo and its bridge offer a historical space with lingering traces from the Japanese colonial era to the Korean War. The people under Yeongdo ...

Special Programs in Focus

• China,Hong Kong,China
• 2015
• 112min

When Still Life was screened at the Venice Film Festival, a surprise entry that received the Golden Lion, I realized that our Jia Zhangke had become the “internationally renowned” Jia Zhangke. Then again, he was internationally re...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2015
• 87min

Following the Fukushima nuclear incident, a young couple moves to Tokyo where they realize that the wife is pregnant. She wants to have an abortion, worried the baby might have been affected by radioactive contamination and concer...

Midnight Passion

• Spain,United States
• 2015
• 84min

Summer Camp takes the spectator on an adrenalin-filled rollercoaster ride in this innovative cat-and-mouse twist on the classic horror set-up of a group of teens alone in the woods. Looking for fun and new experiences as counselor...

Special Programs in Focus

• France
• 2015
• 103min

The mother, with a natural sense of art which is inherited in the family generation after generation, collected artworks and antique furniture all her life. She tries to talk about the artifacts on her 75th birthday to her childre...

World Cinema

• France
• 2015
• 105min

In 1971, Delphin, who scrapes out a harsh living on a farm, leaves for Paris to escape country life, be independent and make some money. In Paris, she meets Carol, who is involved in the emerging feminist movement. The encounter c...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2015
• 93min

Internationally acclaimed Filipino director Brillante Medoza presents a new film that deals with the aftermath of the hurricane Haiyan, which caused over 10,000 casualties in Tacloban in 2013. As the film centers on contemporary c...

• Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard)

World Cinema

• Italy,France
• 2015
• 133min

There are three kingdoms, each with its own monarch. The queen of one kingdom has to eat a sea monster's heart to conceive an heir. Since his wife’s death, the king of another kingdom lives with his daughter, secretly hindering he...