Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2017
• 92min

It’s Areum’s first day at work at the publishing company where Bongwan, a literary critic, is the boss. His wife, thinking Bongwan is fooling around with a new girl, shows up and thinks Areum must be the one. That’s how Areum gets...

• Cannes Film Festival (In Competition)

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China,Hong Kong,China
• 2017
• 131min

This movie is made to honor the resistance fighters active when Hong Kong was occupied by Japan. The highlight of this movie is the comradeship among the guerrillas, spies and contact men. Without any words, they look at each othe...

Wide Angle

• China
• 2017
• 17min

This autobiographical short tracks the single day the filmmaker’s parents?dad, a recycling center worker and mom, already a mother, newly wed to him and pregnant with Hong?went from essentially strangers to intimate lovers and par...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2017
• 120min

The impact of the great earthquake that hit East Japan on March 11 is still being felt, particularly unimaginable pain by those who used to live near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. A husband who lost his wife has quit ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2017
• 127min

Tomo is a young girl living with her irresponsible mother. When her mother suddenly leaves one day Tomo goes to stay with her uncle Makio. At uncle’s house, Tomo happens to meet a transgender lady, Rinko. Since Rinko is caring and...

World Cinema

• Israel
• 2017
• 103min

Affluent, middle-aged bachelor Ariel meets his ex-girlfriend twenty years after they were at university together. She confesses the shocking truth that she was pregnant when they broke up and that she raised their son. Ariel decid...

Flash Forward

• Italy
• 2017
• 100min

Anna, a Yenish, was separated from her family and grew up in an orphanage in Switzerland. Many years later, the former orphanage becomes a nursing home and the now grown Anna works there as a nurse. When a woman moves into the nur...

Special Programs in Focus

• Russia
• 2017
• 97min

In 1972, Tanya is a first-grader and lives with her grandparents in a remote village. She is surrounded by people she loves, beautiful nature, and her deceased father who she never knew, but thinks he is always near. Grandma is wo...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2017
• 126min

The lamb in “The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary” introduced in this movie is an animal fruit born in a plant stem similar to the umbilical cord. If the stem is cut, the lamb dies. This creature lives as part of a plant and of an animal...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iraq,UK,Netherlands,France,Qatar
• 2017
• 82min

The latest film by Iraqi director Mohamed Al Daradji, who gained world renown after the release of Son of Baylon (2009). Bagdad is celebrating the Islamic holiday Eid al-Adha in 2006. Sarah is commissioned for a suicide bomb attac...

• APM 2010