A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2019
• 100min

Bitter Chestnut begins with two men eating and taking a rest in a valley in the mountains. One of them is Kishan, a 17-year-old who is conflicted about the family’s expectations for him to become a carpenter and continue the famil...

Midnight Passion

• Canada
• 2019
• 96min

The dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi’gMaq reserve of Red Crow, except for its Indigenous inhabitants who are strangely immune to the zombie plague. Traylor, the local tribal law enforcement, armed with nothing ...

New Currents

• Taiwan
• 2019
• 109min

The Malaysian communist party engaged in decades-long armed struggle in the jungle to gain independence. Babies who were born during the war were sent outside the jungle for survival. Boluomi is the father of one of those babies, ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India,UK,France,Qatar
• 2019
• 97min

Bombay Rose is an animation about the flower girl Kamala and her clever sister Tara. The two girls live with their grandfather who repairs clocks in a corner of the streets in Bombay. Upon learning that his alcoholic son with a ga...

• APM 2015 / Opening Film at Venice International Film Festival Critics′ Week

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2019
• 94min

book-paper-scissors is a so-called master artisan documentary, which tells the story of KIKUCHI Nobuyoshi, a respected Japanese book designer. Throughout his life, 75-year-old KIKUCHI created the cover of over 15,000 books, all by...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2019
• 109min

Born to Kill is directed by JANG Hyunsoo, who pioneered and popularized the Korean Noir genre in the mid-1990s. Young stars JUNG Woosung and SHIM Eunha back then played the roles of a lonely hit man and his beautiful lover. The mo...

World Cinema

• Netherlands
• 2019
• 86min

Maarten, a philosophy professor who lived a boring routine, accidentally stops by a mart and encounters armed robbers. Unintentional murder occurs, and Maarten picks up the pistol that rolled into him. Instead of handing the gun o...

World Cinema

• Ireland,UK
• 2019
• 101min

Marking the feature directorial debut of Nick ROWLAND, Calm with Horses is a taut, muscular thriller with a powerful, emotional core. In dark rural Ireland, ex-boxer Arm has become the feared enforcer for the drug-dealing Devers f...

Flash Forward

• Romania,Sweden
• 2019
• 90min

After learning that he is terminally ill, Carturan starts preparing for his death. The most important thing for him is to prepare his grandson’s future after he dies. Carturan asks the neighbors to look after his grandson, but the...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China,Singapore
• 2019
• 124min

Changfeng is a small town, hidden deep in the mountains. This remote town is home to a movie theater, a dentist’s office, a car repair shop, several small stores, and a lonely elementary school. The town’s residents are peculiar a...

• 2016 ACF Script Development Fund