Special Programs in Focus

• Turkey
• 2014
• 110min

Inside examines the disgusting life of outsider Muharrem, who lives in a dark world full of contempt and harshness. After an awkward meeting with friends, Muharrem falls into a whirlwind of despairing anger and self-loathing that ...

Wide Angle

• France
• 2014
• 88min

This is a documentary-animation by French director Michel Gondry in the form of illustrated interviews with US linguist and political commentator Noam Chomsky. If the 19th-century had Saussure as its linguist, the 20th century lin...

Midnight Passion

• United States
• 2014
• 100min

For 19-year-old Jay, fall should be about school, boys and weekends out at the lake. But after a seemingly innocent sexual encounter with a stranger, she finds herself plagued by strange visions and the inescapable sense that some...

New Currents

• Bangladesh
• 2014
• 121min

This is the story of an infant, a child and teen named Jalal. Twenty-year-old Jalal works under a gang leader and budding politician named Sajib, who has kidnapped and impregnated Shila. He has Jalal watch her, but she dies while ...

• 2014 ACF Post-production Fund

World Cinema

• Argentina,Denmark,Mexico,United States
• 2014
• 110min

The film is set in Patagonia, a remote corner of Argentina, near the end of the 19th century. At that time, the so-called ‘Conquest of the Desert’, a violent campaign designed to clean the aboriginal took place. The Danish general...

• FIPRESCI Prize at Un Certain Regard, Cannes Film Festival

World Cinema

• UK
• 2014
• 109min

1932. Jimmy Gralton is back home in the Irish countryside after ten years of forced exile in the USA. His widowed mother Alice is happy, Jimmy′s friends are happy, all the young people who enjoy dancing and singing are happy. Whic...

• Cannes Film Festival (In Competition)

A Window on Asian Cinema

• France,Taiwan
• 2014
• 56min

Another meditative piece of cinema from Tsai Ming-Liang’s, who has been one of the most prominent filmmakers of the new cinema movement in Taiwan since his debut in 1992. The film begins with an extreme close-up of Denis Lavant wh...

• Berlin Film Festival (Panorama)

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2014
• 135min

A series of mishaps occur overnight at a love hotel located in the famous Kabukicho red light district, where people with shady secrets and conspiracies flock to. The film begins on a light note, with a young lady singing and play...

Flash Forward

• Germany
• 2014
• 110min

Inspired by Franz Kafka’s unfinished short story, this film depicts a man who moves into an apartment he has made into a fortress. The original story has an animal as its main character, but this film features a middle-aged man. T...

Special Programs in Focus

• Georgia,France,Luxembourg
• 2014
• 91min

Ten housewives are selected for a televised reality program to choose the best mother. All with their own life stories, the contestants undergo all kinds of humiliation to win the cash prize and an apartment. Following the cooking...

• 2012 Venice Film Festival (Venice Days)