Special Programs in Focus

• Philippines
• 2018
• 94min

As a film marrying satire and documentary, more than a century after his death, two filmmakers struggle to make sense of the mystery that surrounds the events of the last day in the life of the Filipino hero Jose Rizal. Their atte...

Special Programs in Focus

• Philippines
• 2018
• 134min

Despite their distinct differences, the Bartolomes are struggling to keep their family intact during the dark times of Philippine Martial Law. Amanda is the mother of five children who is also trying to find her identity and purpo...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Lebanon,United States
• 2018
• 125min

12-year-old Zain is in a juvenile prison for stabbing someone with a knife, but he wants to sue his parents. With neither an official registered identification card nor birth certificate, he doesn’t even know his birthdate. When t...

Wide Angle

• India
• 2018
• 8min

Amyra is in a car accident, and her life is turned upside down when her heart is filled with crazy thoughts. This psychological horror film brings extreme fear to the audience with only the tension of atmosphere and sound, without...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan,Hong Kong,China,Singapore,Malaysia
• 2018
• 107min

Because of films criticizing the Chinese government, director Yang can’t make films in China anymore and has been living in Hong Kong for five years like as a political refugee. With her Hong Kong husband and her four-year-old son...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2018
• 120min

Setsuo has been living alone for the past decade, working as a train driver in Kagoshima. One day a young woman and a little boy appear before him to inform that his son has died of a heart attack, and that they are his bereaved w...

Flash Forward

• Belgium
• 2018
• 105min

Lara transfers to a new school with dreaming of a prima ballerina. Not far into the film, the shy Lara is revealed to be a transgender girl stuck in the body of a boy. Her family is completely supportive and her friends are accept...

World Cinema

• Sweden
• 2018
• 109min

Border guard Tina is extraordinarily good at spotting smugglers. One day, a suspicious-looking man steps off the ferry. Unable to identify what he’s hiding, she becomes obsessed with him and the disturbing aura he exudes. Her inve...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2018
• 98min

Hae-soo, a mysterious woman taking various kinds of drugs, moves to a rural city where nobody knows her. There, she opens a cafe and starts a new life. She becomes closer to Ye-jin, a high school student and regular customer, afte...

Wide Angle

• Sweden
• 2018
• 65min

Gordon is an old toad ready to retire as the forest police officer. One day, citizen squirrel is robbed of all his precious acorns, and Gordon must solve his last case. While Gordon is on a stakeout in the snowy forest, he meets a...