Flash Forward

• Visar MORINA
• Germany,Kosovo,Macedonia,France
• 2015
• 104min

In Kosovo, before the Balkan Wars erupt, Gesim, a cigarette-seller and father, suddenly leaves home. Ten-year-old Nori sets out for Germany, going through pitifully dangerous encounters in a harsh, stark country, only to find his ...

Midnight Passion

• Michael PETRONI
• UK,Australia
• 2015
• 89min

Having recently suffered from the loss of his 12-year-old daughter Evie, Psychologist Peter Bower and his wife Carol relocate back to Melbourne―where they first met―to start afresh. Old friend and mentor, Dr. Duncan Steward organi...

Special Programs in Focus

• Leos CARAX
• France
• 2015
• 119min

One time Les Cahiers du Cinema contributor Leos Carax’s ability to bend and sometimes break film conventions while paying homage to them showed early in his career. In Bad Blood, rebellious teen Alex works with his dead father’s c...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• SUN Hao
• China,Korea
• 2015
• 110min

Chang Tzu, a Chinese teacher living in Korea, travels to Jeju Island with his brother Papa and two friends. After witnessing a car accident on their way, they try to take the unconscious victim, Ji-yun, to a hospital, but are pull...

Flash Forward

• Adriano VALERIO
• Italy,Bulgaria,Macedonia,Romania
• 2015
• 85min

Ivo, without a decent job in Italy, finds a chance for work as an agronomist?what he majored in?and so packs up to leave for Banat. Meeting Clara by chance, as outgoing and incoming tenants, the two have a pleasant evening marked ...

• Venice International Film Festival (International Critics′ Week)

Wide Angle

• LEE Chunghyun
• Korea
• 2015
• 14min

A middle-aged man takes a high school girl to a motel room and bargains with her about the payment for sex. He argues for a discount on the grounds that she is not a virgin. At a loss, the girl agrees.

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Mipo O
• Japan
• 2015
• 121min

Third generation Korean-Japanese director O Mipo’s fourth feature weaves together three tales from a short story collection by Nakawaki Hatsue. Set in a village in Hokkaido, the film focuses on how big problems can emerge even in ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Claude CHABROL
• France
• 2015
• 110min

Police chief Paul Bellamy is vacationing at his wife Francoise’s family estate, despite her wishes to get away from it all. As an inspector with a nearly insatiable thirst for mystery, Bellamy listens when a stranger appears at hi...

Wide Angle

• Marcia Tambutti ALLENDE
• Chile,Mexico
• 2015
• 98min

35 years after the coup d’etat that overthrew her grandfather, Salvador Allende, Marcia wishes to change the family custom of not speaking about him and their tragic history. She believes it is time to recover the family memories ...

• Cannes Film Festival (Directors′ Fortnight)

A Window on Asian Cinema

• PHAN Dang Di
• Vietnam,France,Germany,Netherlands
• 2015
• 102min

While studying photography in Saigon, Vu discovers a new world while hanging out with roommate Thang, who works as a bartender in a club, and the club dancer, Van. From a poor village near the Mekong River, Vu is living in the cit...

• Berlin Film Festival (In Competition)