A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2014
• 86min

Lin’s family is financially devastated when his father undergoes a pricey medical treatment for leukemia. Despite her overbearing workload, his mother makes rounds asking for loans, Lin’s older sister becomes a call girl and Lin p...

• Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard)

Special Programs in Focus

• Georgia,Georgia
• 2014
• 32min

This short film is directed by Salome Alexi, a descendant of the three-generation-long female filmmaker family. Tamara works as an illegal immigrant in Italy, and when her husband dies in her Georgia home, all she can do is wail o...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2014
• 103min

In a village with beautiful beaches and landscape, but it is so monotonous that nothing is likely to happen there. The village’s residents are, a virgin bride whose groom died on their wedding day; a young man who repeats his bori...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2014
• 87min

On an island in the Philippines, right before the end of World War II, Allied Forces and Resistance attacks have cut off the Japanese army’s food supply. Tamura is kicked out of his unit and the field hospital due to the tuberculo...

• Venice Film Festival (In Competetion) / 2005 APM Project

Open Cinema

• China
• 2014
• 129min

Born as identical twins, RuoLan and RuMei used to change their clothes to trick people. Now as grownups, RuMei has become a famous star, while her older sister RuoLan, lives an ordinary life, and intensely envies her sister. Ryo i...

• 2012 APM Project

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Vietnam,France,Germany,Norway
• 2014
• 103min

This is the debut feature by Diep Nguyen Hoang, a producer on Phan Dang Di’s Bi, Don’t be Afraid (A Window on Asian Cinema, BIFF 2010). Huyen is a student in Hanoi, who decides to have an abortion. Her boyfriend’s income is low an...

• 2010 APM Project

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2014
• 14min

A mother goes to a village office to report her son’s accidental death. Advised to bring a death certificate, she visits the hospital again and returns to the office. (NAM Dong-chul)

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2014
• 109min

A documentary exploring the international rise of the Taiwanese New Wave represented by the likes of Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang and its impact on world cinema. The film weaves interviews with cinema professionals who took the...

• Venice Film Festival (Venice Classic)

Wide Angle

• Singapore,Indonesia,Korea
• 2014
• 90min

Vladimir Todorovic, Mun Jeonghyun, and Daniel Rudi Haryanto - film directors from Serbia, South Korea, and Indonesia, respectively - met at an international film festival and decided to make a movie about those who stand at a bord...

• 2012 AND DMA Fund

Wide Angle

• India
• 2014
• 80min

When England withdrew from India after World War II, India and Pakistan also separated according to their religious differences. This manmade dividing line also separated families and relatives living in adjacent neighborhoods, ma...

• 2012 AND DMZ Fund