Midnight Passion

• United States
• 2014
• 78min

Aaron comes across a cryptic online ad: "$1,000 for the day. Filming service. Discretion is appreciated." Low on cash, he travels to a remote mountain town where he meets Josef, his cinematic subject for the day. Josef is sincere ...

Flash Forward

• France
• 2014
• 108min

Pierre Tardieu, a day laborer, lives with his sick father. Reminiscing about his childhood with his mother on the beach, he can’t free himself from her. Murdering someone becomes the only way of realizing his existence. One day, h...

World Cinema

• United States
• 2014
• 96min

King Cymbeline, leader of the Briton Motorcycle Club, clashes with the corrupt Roman Police while his radiant but disobedient daughter Imogen fends off assaults on her honor and her life. Cymbeline’s wife and her son aspire to tak...

• Venice Film Festival (Orizzonti)

Wide Angle

• UK
• 2014
• 72min

Daddy’s School explores the philosophy of education and film of celebrated Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbf, who quit school due to poverty and a passion for revolution. All his children chose their father’s film school over Ira...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2014
• 84min

A mother is seriously obsessed with her daughter. The mother forces her daughter to live a ascetic life and keeps a close watch to ensure she doesn’t stray. Years later, now fully grown up, the daughter learns that her mother is s...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2014
• 70min

Daughter..Mother..Daughteris a colorful piece by the cinematic poet Panahbarkhoda Rezaee. Three women are living stagnant lives in the beautiful countryside. Fully grown-up but handicapped, the daughter has to lie in bed all day w...

Special Programs in Focus

• Georgia
• 2014
• 102min

Under the Soviet regime with vibrant revolutionary spirits, Eva and her husband are dragged into the process of building a new era. Metaphorically depicting the chaotic era and history, this masterpiece casts Eva, a woman filled w...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong,China,China
• 2014
• 130min

Based on a true story, Dearest is about the sensitivity, complexity and indelible pain of child abduction. In July 2009, Tian Wenjun, the owner of a small Internet cafe in Shenzhen, finds his three-year-old boy Pengpeng missing. H...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2014
• 118min

Based on Jung Bee-suk’s novel, Dori and his mother live in the woods, making a living by selling coal. Mother prays at a village shrine for marriage for Dori and as though her prayers are answered, Sooni comes to live with them. T...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong,China
• 2014
• 113min

This film is the latest romantic melodrama from Hong Kong’s master of cinema, Johnnie To, and a sequel to his 2011 film of the same name. The film starts with the heroine of the previous film, Cheng Zixin(Gao Yuanyuan), getting a ...