World Cinema

• Australia
• 2015
• 96min

In the last days of a dying logging town, Christian returns to his family home for his father Henry’s wedding. While home, Christian reconnects with his childhood friend Oliver, who has stayed in town working at Henry’s timber mil...

• Venice International Film Festival (Closing Film at Venice Days)

Flash Forward

• Canada
• 2015
• 102min

A story about the power of belief, The Devout follows Darryl Eckford during trying times: his 4-year-old daughter, Abigail, has terminal cancer with weeks to live. Abigail is obsessed with space, and she talks with extraordinary d...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2015
• 62min

Succinctly highlighting the tragedy of national division, The DMZ relays the story of two children, a boy and a girl, who find themselves near the Military Demarcation Line searching for loved ones. The girl, Yeonga, meets a boy w...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2015
• 106min

A film that realistically portrays the lamentable life of a bar hostess in 1960s Korea. At the time, countless women from the countryside traveled to Seoul to earn money, but some, swindled by the people they met or struggling to ...

Wide Angle

• SouthAfrica,Egypt,France,Netherlands,Jordan
• 2015
• 108min

South African director Francois Verster’s new work is a documentary in which three elements, namely Rimsky-Korsakov’s symphony Scheherazade, the classic Arab literature One Thousand and One Nights and the Arab Revolution are inter...

World Cinema

• Australia
• 2015
• 118min

Tilly is beautiful, talented and distinctly unique. Burdened by guilt she returns to her hometown to find her mother, Mad Molly, demented. Tilly is an outsider, accused of murder and turned upon by insular locals. Whilst there is ...

World Cinema

• SouthAfrica,France
• 2015
• 108min

In a small village called "The Endless River" in South Africa, a young woman who works in a restaurant reunites with her husband after four years of his jail term. The couple plans a promising future together. However, when a trag...

• Venice International Film Festival (In Competition)

Flash Forward

• Spain
• 2015
• 87min

In Spain during civil war, a seminarian, Teo, is assigned to a small, remote fortress on the top of the mountain. Teo has to share a tiny place with Silverio who is already stationed there. They argue with each other over all aspe...

World Cinema

• France
• 2015
• 105min

Madeleine is determined to keep her family free from the burden of unnecessarily prolonging her life. But such a notion comes as a shock to her daughter, Dianne, and son, Pierre. Madeleine’s stubbornness to maintain her dignity ca...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2015
• 98min

Hailed as a masterpiece of modern Korean cinema, The General’s Mustache could easily lay claim to greatness just for the short animation by artist Shin Dong-hun that’s contained within it. Written by Kim Seung-ok and directed by L...