New Currents

• Iraq
• 2014
• 98min

Director Shakhwan Idrees’ debut film is a black comedy rooted in the Iran-Iraqi conflict. In a small Kurdish village in northern Iraq, Abdulrahman prepares for his nephew Serwan’s wedding. However, the happy day is soured when the...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2014
• 135min

King Jeongjo assumes a special position in the history of Joseon. He became famous in his later years by strengthening the royal authority and implementing a number of beneficial policies. However,he was at a fragile status when h...

World Cinema

• Russia
• 2014
• 116min

Dima lives with his family in an old apartment block containing a dormitory for 800 people. Living in cramped conditions and always short on money, his life is filled with frustration. One day, he discovers that his apartment buil...

• Leopard for Best Actor at Locarno Film Festival

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan,Taiwan,Korea
• 2014
• 118min

Starting her career under the best mentors, including directors Edward Yang and Hou Hsiao-Hsien, and after co-directing the critically acclaimed Artemisia, Taiwanese director Chiang Hsiu Chiung is back with her debut film, The Fur...

Open Cinema

• France,Belgium,Cambodia
• 2014
• 95min

Cambodia, 1971. Falsely accused of being a CIA spy, Francois Bizot, an ethnologist, stays in the Khmer Rouge’s labor camp for four months. As his survival depends on the generosity of the young camp commander Douch, Bizot desperat...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2014
• 29min

A man and a woman love each other but they break up nonetheless. The woman, who left to find a rich man, comes back to the man when she’s drunk and leaves him when she’s sober again and again. The man now decides to put an end to ...

Gala Presentation

• China,Hong Kong,China
• 2014
• 178min

A historical drama about Xiao Hong, China’s most influential author of the 1930s, comes to the screen by Hong Kong’s master director Ann Hui. The film begins with a soliloquy by Xiao Hong and continues with reflections by fellow w...

• Venice Film Festival (Out of Competition)

Flash Forward

• Spain
• 2014
• 85min

As a way of getting over his recent bitter romantic relationships, Miguel goes to his hometown after a long time in search of a shooting location for a film. Seeing old friends and reminiscing about the good old days, he becomes t...

World Cinema

• United States
• 2014
• 122min

Nebraska 1854, when three women are driven insane on the edges of the American frontier, the task of delivering them back east falls to a pious spinster named Mary Bee Cuddy. The daunting challenge of driving a wagon loaded with m...

• Cannes Film Festival (In Competition)

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2014
• 110min

There is a place that seems familiar, yet remains strange; a place to await death. It is the hospice ward. Patients there play games, enjoy leisure time and take walks with family. Death is the same, but how one deals with it is d...