Midnight Passion

• UK
• 2015
• 95min

Fraught economic pressures force Adam Hitchens, a London based conservationist, to take a job surveying an Irish forest. He hopes the move to a millhouse deep in the idyllic countryside will be a breath of fresh air for his wife C...

World Cinema

• Croatia,Slovenia,Serbia
• 2015
• 123min

In 1991, Serbian Jelena and Croatian Ivan are lovers who plan to run away to Zagreb together, but an unforeseen event stops them and Ivan is killed. Ten years on, Natasha and her mother return to their village, devastated by the w...

• Juzy Prize at Un Certain Regard, Cannes

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2015
• 108min

Made around the same time as Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom and Hitchcock’s Psycho, Kim Ki-young’s weird classic has a mood and neo-gothic visual stylings to rival either of them. It has roots in sociological observation ? the migra...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• UK,Palestine,Qatar,Netherlands,United Arab Emirates
• 2015
• 100min

In recent years, competitive audition shows on TV have been all the rage around the world. In the Middle East, Arab Idol, which in 2013 took place in Cairo, Egypt, became one of the region’s most popular television programs. This ...

Wide Angle

• Mexico
• 2015
• 71min

Marina, who lives in a small Mexican village, is a curious little girl who loves singing. One day, her village holds a festival, where Marina and her cousins meet a boy who became a stone on a circus troupe’s carriage. In order to...

Midnight Passion

• United States
• 2015
• 100min

Will and Eden were once a loving couple with a beautiful child. After a tragedy took their son from them, Eden disappeared suddenly, leaving her grieving husband behind. Three years later, she has returned with a new husband out o...

World Cinema

• Israel,Canada
• 2015
• 118min

Three siblings who discover the identity of their biological father at their mother’s deathbed set off on a quirky journey from Israel through Paris and on to Marseille. The journey is ultimately a return to the past and an explor...

World Cinema

• UK,Greece,Ireland
• 2015
• 118min

The Lobster begins with a blind woman reminiscing about the past. Her tale is of an antiutopian world in which people without romantic partners are arrested and detained for forty-five days in a place called The Hotel; those who f...

• Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2015
• 88min

Yahya is falsely accused of murder but is found innocent and returns to his daily life. The staff of the textile factory he works for and his neighbors don’t welcome him. They keep glancing suspiciously at him and use varying degr...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2015
• 121min

Set on the lively and picturesque streets of the capital of Taiwan, The Mad King of Taipei depicts the lives of common Taiwanese people who, in an attempt to leave the past behind, search for new hopes and dreams. In the film’s ve...