Wide Angle
Stay Awake, Be ReadyOn a street corner a mysterious conversation among three young men at a street stalls. Meanwhile a traffic accident on a motorbike. The night brings together a sketch, a multicolor frame of reality. (KANG Sowon)
A Window on Asian Cinema
Suddenly a TreeSuddenly a Tree is a story about the love of Farhad’s life. Young Farhad falls in love with his classmate Suzanne, and his love lasts a lifetime. Farhad grows up into a kind young man who writes poetry and bakes cookies for his mo...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Suk SukSuk Suk is a love story of two elderly gay men in Hong Kong. Park is a 70-year-old taxi driver who lives with his wife. His son is happily married with children, and his daughter is pregnant and about to be married. Hoi lives with...
Special Programs in Focus 2
Surname Viet Given Name NamAfter the release of Reassemblage, a documentary filmed in Senegal, TRINH T. Minh-ha said she often received criticisms from the American Vietnamese community for not making a film about Vietnam. She then directed Surname Viet Giv...
Wide Angle
Sweet, SaltyMs. Ha, a 40-year-old pregnant woman, prepares for a fight against her husband′s hidden lover. It’s about Ms. Ha’s neighbors who are supportive or gossiping, her two grown daughters, and her own story. (PARK Sungho)
World Cinema
SynonymsYoav, who has left his native Israel, is robbed of all his wealth and becomes penniless upon arrival in Paris. Yoav, naked and abandoned in an empty apartment, is fortunately brought to life with the help of a young Parisien bourg...
Special Programs in Focus 2
TalentimeSet against the backdrop of multiethnic, multicultural Malaysia, Yasmin AHMAD’s swan song Talentime is a film that perfectly captures her artistic world, presenting a utopia of relationships that connect various characters despite...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Talking the PicturesFrom the invention of the movie media in 1895 to the development of vocal films in the mid-1920s, we call it the silent picture days. In the silent picture days, a narrator played the role of reciting the lines of actors in the fi...
World Cinema
TechnobossDirector Joao NICOLAU of John From presents a new, unusual titled film Technoboss. Luis ROVISCO is about to retire from the company he has worked as a technology for 30 years. Although he is feeling small in front of the new techn...
Flash Forward
The Accidental RebelKarim and Yasir, the Syrian brothers, are in danger of singing banned songs at the concert. Five years later, Karim, living happily with his girlfriend in Hamburg, finds out that his brother Yasir has disappeared from Turkey. Unde...