Flash Forward

• Portugal
• 2017
• 177min

In a factory in Portugal, workers suspect that they might lose their jobs when they find the machines are relocated under cover of darkness. Conflicts arise between the workers and management, which leaves the factory half empty a...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2017
• 120min

Iranian director Majid Majidi, famous for Children of Heaven, is indulged in India. After finishing a movie set in Mumbai, India, he announced plans to make his second movie set in India, and his new fascination with it now demand...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2017
• 90min

Men are social animals. The film discusses this from a personal perspective: Cahng Kihoon, who lived through the struggle for democracy in the 1980s and 1990s. The Cahng Kihoon Fake Will Scandal is said to be behind the patriotic ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2017
• 151min

There’s an island called “Battleship Island”, where many Koreans were forcibly drafted into serving the Japanese imperial army and mining coal, where they were treated miserably. Director Ryoo Seungwan cinematized the island’s tra...

World Cinema

• Brazil,France
• 2017
• 135min

Coming from the slums of Sao Paulo, Clara begins to work as a nanny and housekeeper for the wealthy, unwed mother Ana. Ana is a first skeptical of Clara as a nanny, but becomes more and more dependent and soon there is a tension g...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2017
• 89min

A story about 8 people who left North Korea during the Korean War to study at the Moscow Film School. Known as the Moscow 8, they opposed the idolization of Kim Il Sung, and defected to Moscow despite promising futures. The surviv...

Midnight Passion

• UK
• 2017
• 96min

Professor Phillip Goodman, psychologist and arch-skeptic, has his rationality tested to the limit when he stumbles across a long-lost file containing details of three terrifying hauntings. Shaken by what he reads, Goodman embarks ...

World Cinema

• Italy
• 2017
• 90min

Having just returned from his ministry in Africa, Father Giuseppe requests to be appointed to a village near Naples. People living there are suffering from the Camorra’s illegal industrial waste disposal. He wants to prove that he...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2017
• 114min

Little body, stubby arms and legs, awkward gait: meet Yokohama-based 27-year-old Ryutaro (played by director Ninomiya Ryutaro himself), the laconic, heavy smoking and drinking protagonist of Sweating the Small Stuff. From the very...

Special Programs in Focus

• Russia
• 2017
• 89min

A remote Yakut village, late 1960s. Senior students want to make a graduation gift to their school?write an essay about its history. They ask oldtimers about their village’s past. From what they said, Kesha, learns that their scho...