World Cinema

• France
• 2015
• 105min

Francois Sim is a dispassionate divorcee who is unable to forget his ex-wife. One day, he receives an unexpected offer to work as a salesman selling toothbrushes across France. He takes the opportunity and, together with his daugh...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2015
• 114min

High school student Kamogawa Yoshiro wakes up one day to discover that he has psychic superpowers. He also soon discovers that others in the city have the gift, only some of them are hellbent on causing trouble. He becomes embroil...

Midnight Passion

• United States
• 2015
• 94min

Life appears normal for two siblings until they discover that Grandma and Grandpa's behavior has suddenly become deeply disturbing after being left to stay at their grandparents' house while their mother is on vacation. They are w...

Open Cinema

• Italy
• 2015
• 100min

Inside an old country-house in Sicily, Italy, Anna is left alone after her son Giuseppe’s funeral. A young woman, Jeanne, allegedly her son’s sweetheart, arrives. Grief-stricken Anna cannot tell her the truth, as she herself canno...

• Venice International Film Festival (In Competition)

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2015
• 100min

Dorothea, a German woman working for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, is on assignment in a troubled Arab region looking for potential female college students among local refugees who are qualified to enter universities in E...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2015
• 140min

Three Stories of Love alternates back and forth between the accounts of three unrelated characters including a man mourning his wife who, having been brutally murdered, has been dead for three years; a housewife who dreams of a ro...

Wide Angle

• Cambodia,France
• 2015
• 20min

On a lonely night, Tuc Tuc driver Nath meets a woman who reminds him of his past. Returning home, he confesses to his wife that he wants to move. This realization ultimately reveals the unspoken realities of their marriage dating ...

Wide Angle

• China
• 2015
• 28min

A former village head old Wang is holding a funeral for his wife who’s just passed away. He wants his son to run for the next village head, but burying his wife’s body instead of burning it could somehow leads people on to gossip....

Special Programs in Focus

• Japan
• 2015
• 136min

What do our parents, the people who raised us with the best of intentions, really think of us? And do we really want to know? In Ozu Yasujiro’s tender, breathtaking Tokyo Story, elderly parents Shukichi (played by Ozu regular Ryu ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kazakhstan
• 2015
• 62min

Rauan lives in Almaty and works as a night guard at the gatehouse of a luxurious apartment building. He dreams of becoming a boxer, but doesn’t have the means to realize his ambition. For him, even coming up with monthly rent for ...