A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2013
• 95min

World Cinema

• United States
• 2013
• 95min

An odd couple of sorts, Alvin, meditative and stern, and his girlfriend’s brother Lance, dopey and insecure, leave the city behind to spend the summer in solitude repainting traffic lines down the center of a country highway ravag...

• Berlin Film Festival - Silver Bear for Best Director

Wide Angle

• Philippines,France
• 2013
• 31min

Those who fought for independence in the Philippines die off, and the leader of the political movement disappears. Those left behind fall in despair, and the lost souls of the dead roam the earth. The voice of the vanished leaves ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India,Germany,Netherlands,France
• 2013
• 109min

In 1947, a Sikhs’ village in the Punjab on the India-Pakistan border is dreary, because of the partition-independence issue. Umber, a Sikh, flees to southern part of India, leaving his family’s traditional home. When Kanwar, his f...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2013
• 146min

At first, Queen takes a classical style of storytelling favored by Bollywood. Rani is a 24-year-old Punjabi woman. Her family is conservative. Her brother escorts her everywhere for her ‘safety’. But when her wedding is cancelled ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2013
• 100min

The fourth film of Matsumoto Hitoshi, a well-known comedian and director, starts with an ordinary man joining a mysterious club. This film soon blurs the border between fantasy and reality by converging the exhibiting media into a...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2013
• 127min

Atusmi and Koichi had loved each other since they were primary school sweethearts. One day, Atusmi falls into a coma for a year after a failed suicide attempt, but Koichi stays by her side. Using a new neurological treatment calle...

World Cinema

• United States
• 2013
• 93min

The Warwick family is unknowingly being filmed for a new reality show. Problem is that the whole family is too boring, and the cable TV executives don’t like what they see and want to cancel the show. In a desperate attempt to sal...

Wide Angle

• Australia
• 2013
• 76min

If the attendees of the Busan film festival’s parties suddenly turn their drinking preferences from soju to red wine, then Red Obsession will be the film to blame. This informative and entertaining documentary begins in France’s B...

New Currents

• Mongolia,Germany
• 2013
• 90min

Making you believe you have something you can’t have. Confusing the boundary between reality and ideals. That is what a remote control, a symbol of convenience, does sometimes. And this illusion starts off from loneliness. Not bei...