A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2018
• 104min

Taiji has been estranged from his mother after suffering years of child abuse at her hand. With the support of his friends, he tries to face her one last time to overcome his traumas. Flashbacks show Taiji, a chubby child desperat...

Wide Angle

• Vietnam
• 2018
• 19min

Phuong is a single woman living in the city. One day, her mother barges in and says that her father left home after a fight. Phuong goes to her father’s mistress to ask his whereabouts. Phuong and her mother each suffer an incompl...

World Cinema

• Argentina,Spain
• 2018
• 114min

A crime drama about Argentina’s longest incarcerated prisoner. In the early 1970s, young Carlos is sentenced to 46 years in prison for dozens of murders and robberies. He made headlines not only for the fact that he held no remors...

Special Programs in Focus

• Philippines
• 2018
• 90min

Set against the backdrop of the enigmatic Baliw-Baliw festival, Terya, a young woman from a poor Philippine fishing village, is about to board a ship to marry an old German man she has never met in order to settle her family’s deb...

New Currents

• Japan
• 2018
• 113min

Middle-aged widower Tetsuro finds an unconscious young man on a river bank. When the man wakes up he says his name is ‘Shinichi’, but nothing more. It is apparent that Shinichi tried to commit suicide, so Tetsuro provides him shel...

• APM 2017

World Cinema

• United States
• 2018
• 101min

Nine vignettes depict the stages leading to execution for women on death row in this emotional account of the human toll of the death penalty?on both the inmates and those they encounter in their final hours. As we experience thei...

Flash Forward

• Israel
• 2018
• 93min

Orna is an ordinary woman living a happy life with a husband and three children. But her family becomes financially unstable, and she has to look for a steady job. When she finally gets a job at a real state agency, everything see...

Wide Angle

• China
• 2018
• 15min

Hua Mingxing is a Korean-Chinese boy living in a border village, whose father is always disappearing. He goes to a nail shop his father had apparently frequented to find him. When he finds his father back home like nothing had hap...

Opening Film & Closing Film

• Hong Kong,China,China
• 2018
• 107min

After he was defeated in the battle for the true Grandmaster of Wing Chun, Cheung Tin Chi gave up Wing Chun for a simple life with his son and only occasionally used it when he moonlighted as a hitman. One day, Cheung Tin Chi ran ...

Flash Forward

• Italy
• 2018
• 92min

Upon her debut as a singer at the age of 17 in the early 1990s, Isabella gained great popularity, but her subsequent motherhood left her forgotten as a singer. Still, she continues to hold on to her dreams of fame while singing he...