Opening Film & Closing Film

• Hong Kong,China
• 2014
• 97min

A comedy-melodrama hybrid, this film is a gangster story minus the traditional tragedy. Wong Kam-Kwei, a gang boss on the decline, overseeing bathhouses and karaoke bars, falls for a small restaurant owner, Mei. He begins to help ...

Wide Angle

• France,Indonesia
• 2014
• 77min

A documentary exploring the history of Indonesian action films from the birth of the local film industry in the 1920 and ’30s, its heydays of the ’70s, its decline in the early to mid-’90s to its resurgence in a new generation aft...

Flash Forward

• France,Colombia
• 2014
• 86min

Eric lives with his father, barely making ends meet by doing chores for a rich Maria’s family. Maria suggests that Eric and his father should enjoy the Christmas holidays at her family’s vacation home. They reluctantly accept her ...

• Cannes Film Festival (Critics' Week)

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Vietnam,United States
• 2014
• 98min

This new mystery-thriller by genre maestro Kiet Le-Van is a modern Vietnamese adaptation of Dostoevsky’s novella ‘A Gentle Creature’. A young and beautiful woman, Linh, commits suicide. As Thien, the now widower husband, sits by L...

Open Cinema

• France
• 2014
• 105min

Geronimo, who grew up with gypsies, helps children from excluded neighborhoods. One day, she helps Nil, a Turkish woman, to hide herself. Nil, has just escaped from a marriage to run away with her boyfriend, Lucky. This relationsh...

World Cinema

• Brazil,Portugal
• 2014
• 100min

Getulio Vargas is one of the most important figures in the 20th century history of Brazil. Following the military coup d’etat, he won the presidential election in 1934. On one hand, he was a hero who led Brazil into economic and s...

New Currents

• Lebanon,Qatar
• 2014
• 100min

Miracles come from the heart and in Amin Dora’s heart-warming debut, a baby boy is born with the blessing of everyone in a close-knit small village in Lebanon. His name is Ghadi, and he was a child with Down syndrome. One day, bec...

Midnight Passion

• Malaysia
• 2014
• 82min

Zong Hua who was grown in traditional opera troupe family returns to Malaysia after his business failure at foreign country. But the relationship among Zong Hua, his stepfather and the leader of the troupe Xiu Tin and his sister J...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2014
• 102min

What kind of story would a Korean-style American Psycho be like? Inspired by this film, filmmaker Juhn Jaihong introduces Gifted . If American Psycho(2000) unravels around a rich man addicted to the rush of murdering a person,...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2014
• 124min

Four orphan boys, without identities, earn a daily wage as porters in a big market. They find amusement in stealing a glance at the schoolgirls passing by. A shop owner who considers them her own sons helps them to ask the market ...