A Window on Asian Cinema
Sincerely Yours, DhakaThe year 2018 will be recorded as the year an unusually high number of omnibus projects were made in Asia, from the Ten-Year International Project involving Thailand, Taiwan and Japan, to HBO Asia′s omnibus focusing on fear, and m...
Wide Angle
The Moon Is Bright TonightA migrant worker’s body arrives in a remote Nepali village. His wife, now a widow, wants to start a new life with the money from his life insurance, but her father-in-law and village elders stop her, claiming the money belongs to ...
Flash Forward
The Man Who Bought the MoonThe Italian intelligence agency obtains intelligence too hard to believe: An unidentified man living in Sardinia is the real owner of the moon. The news is instantly relayed to all intelligence agencies in the world, and with each...
Flash Forward
The TobacconistFranz, a 17-year-old boy from rural Austria, comes to Vienna to get a job in a cigarette shop. Although tyranny under the Nazi occupation and hatred towards Jews has worsened oppression and insecurity, the tobacco store remains a ...
Special Programs in Focus
The BlacksmithFlavio’s village and land are under Lizardo’s reign. Flavio is forced to brand innocent children every night with Lizardo’s mark by the head of his men in Pilo. One day, Flavio’s predecessor as panday, Tata Temio, witnesses a mete...
Midnight Passion
The PreyUndercover Chinese cop Xin is on a secret international mission when a surprise raid puts him in a remote jungle prison that plays by its own rules. Here, the visitors are wealthy thrill seekers, the guards are hostile puppet mast...
Flash Forward
The Devil OutsideRobert Eastwood is an innocent, brought up in a world of evangelical Christianity that has taught him to look for signs and to believe that evil is waiting outside the front door. When he goes to school he is shocked to discover t...
World Cinema
DamselThe Wild West, circa 1880?Samuel Alabaster ventures to the edge of the frontier to save the kidnapped love of his life, Penelope. He traverses the Wild West with a drunkard and a miniature horse named Butterscotch. However, when t...
World Cinema
DogmanA black comedy about the afflictions of a timid man in a dangerous relationship of subjugation with a violent man. Marcello, a dog groomer in a small town, believes he and neighborhood thug Simone are friends, though he is in fact...
Wide Angle
Tokyo 21st OctoberFifty-two-year-old Sakiko visits her son living in Tokyo. As she has dinner with him in a sushi restaurant with a strange server, she speaks ill of her mother-in-law and gets angry all of a sudden. The unique stop motion animation...