A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2014
• 117min

Reiko, suffering from sudden memory loss, is informed that she actually has a brain tumor and just one week left to live. Her family, which has drifted apart both physically and emotionally, is shocked by the news and decides to m...

Wide Angle

• India
• 2014
• 91min

There have been ambitious efforts to see Bangalore, India, reborn as an international metropolis. Politicians and businessmen ignore the law and move forward with plans to build mega shopping malls and subway systems without negot...

• 2013 AND Busan Bank Fund

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2014
• 94min

Over Your Dead Body is the latest of director Miike Takashi’s signature horror movies. Kosuke is cast in a theatrical play adapted from Japan’s classic ghost tale Yotsuya Kaidan, a play about betrayal, vengeance and murder. He pla...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2014
• 96min

In a village far away from city life with little communication with the mainland, the women hunt for oysters and abalones, while the men fish at sea. Byul-lae is left alone after both parents die in the water. She believes the sup...

Wide Angle

• Australia
• 2014
• 96min

Writer/producer/director Robert Connolly has played hit and run with genres throughout his career. From the white-collar crime of The Bank(2001) to the murky mix of Australian, Indonesian and East Timorese politics in Balibo(2009)...

Opening Film & Closing Film

• Taiwan
• 2014
• 133min

A film directed by Doze Chen-Zer Niu ruminating on Taiwan during the 1960s and ’70s. In 1969, Kinmen, new recruit Pao is transferred to the Sea Dragon, the Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion still in a standoff with Mainland Chin...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2014
• 70min

The sounds of blades skating across ice and the shouts of athletes fill an ice rink?the national ice sledge hockey team members. They play on sledges, not on skates, and freely command their sticks atop the ice. Though each athlet...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2014
• 89min

The latest feature from Chang Jung-Chi, winner of the Best New Director at the Golden Horse Film Festival in 2012 for Touch of the Light, opened the Taipei Film Festival in July 2014 to rave reviews. Partners in Crimestarts with a...

Flash Forward

• France
• 2014
• 95min

Angelique is now an old hostess working in a nightclub at the border of France and Germany. She loves her work, but realizes that it won’t last much longer and is torn when one of her regulars asks her to marry him. Will she be ab...

• Camera d′Or at Cannes Film Festival

World Cinema

• France,Italy,Belgium
• 2014
• 87min

Pasolini recomposes Italian poet and film director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s last day of life. On November 2nd, 1975, the day when he was killed, Pasolini spends time with his mother and some close friends and goes out to enjoy the ni...

• Venice Film Festival (In Competition)