A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2014
• 129min

My Man is the latest project from Kumakiri Kazuyoshi, based on Sakuraba Kazuki’s controversial Naoki Award-winning novel. After losing her family to the tsunami that hit the southwestern sea off Hokkaido, 10-year-old Hana is adopt...

• 2011 APM Project

Wide Angle

• France,United States
• 2014
• 181min

The National Gallery of London houses over 2,400 paintings. Behind this historical place where permanent exhibitions and various special ones are held every year, there are concerns and efforts of those who restore the paintings t...

• Cannes Film Festival (Directors′ Fortnight)

Flash Forward

• Argentina,France
• 2014
• 71min

Lila lives in a small village on a mountainside, but she is separated from her mother when she goes off to boarding school. Just coming into womanhood, Lila also wants to find the father she has never seen. However, her mother’s o...

• Grand Prix at Generation, Berlin Film Festival

Flash Forward

• Israel
• 2014
• 90min

Chelli works as a security guard and lives with her mentally challenged sister, Gabby. Chelli refuses the approach of the social welfare worker and tries to live self-sufficiently, but Gabby’s symptoms escalate and Chelli can’t st...

• Cannes Film Festival (Directors′ Fortnight)

New Currents

• China
• 2014
• 98min

A new angle on a coming-of-age film about the friendship between two teenage girls. A new transfer student, Li Xiaolu, and class president Wang Xiaobing instantly become close friends. They feel a connection right from the start, ...

Wide Angle

• Philippines
• 2014
• 70min

In November 2013, Typhoon Haiyan brutally hit the Philippines, displacing millions and killing over 10,000 people, including the four children of Nick and Chai. To prepare against the powerful typhoon, the couple sent their childr...

• 2014 AND BIFF Mecenat Fund

Midnight Passion

• Denmark,Belgium,France,Germany,UK
• 2014
• 325min

Nymphomaniac is the wild and poetic story of a woman’s journey from birth to the age of 50 as told by the main character, the self-diagnosed nymphomaniac, Joe. On a cold winter’s evening the old, charming bachelor, Seligman, finds...

Wide Angle

• United States
• 2014
• 27min

Author Horton Foote’s unsettling drama sees an angry former employee confronting a wealthy cotton gin owner demanding the return of the arm he lost to the machinery. Normally pacified with a few dollars, this day’s visit unfolds q...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2014
• 121min

On May 9, a girl named Oh Min-ju is murdered. Seven suspects are each visited by mysterious vigilantes collectively known as “Shadows” who force those under suspicion to confess about the truth of the May 9 case. Wearing outfits t...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2014
• 93min

A professor in the department of drama and movie arts at China’s Nanjing University and novelist, Yang Yishu presents his latest feature following On The Road(2010). One summer night, Zhen Liu’s husband, Xiao Ping, is arrested out...