A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2017
• 72min

At night, Manila’s red light Burgos district starts shining and its shops get busy welcoming tourists and women from different countries. The life of Tuesday, Amanda and Barbie is also here. Providing sexual services, the three tr...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2017
• 18min

As a mechanic and a man with a broken down car get to chatting by the side of a desolate road, it soon becomes clear that the car owner also owns the factory the mechanic’s brother was recently fired from.

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2017
• 105min

Along with Jagko, Gilsotteum is Im Kwon-taek’s another film depicting the tragedy of separation between South and North Korea, which also solidified middle-aged Shin Seong-il’s onscreen persona. While filming the 1983 TV show Find...

Flash Forward

• Sweden
• 2017
• 107min

Agne runs the farm he inherited from his father, but it’s not easy to do alone. To make matters worse, the land’s owner threatens to end the lease. Agne desperately wants to save the farm so that his son can take it on, but his so...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2017
• 18min

The poolside conversations between a boy and his classmate linger in his mind after her sudden death in this coming-of-age tale that recalls one boy’s remembrances of what he considers the time of his life.

Flash Forward

• UK,France
• 2017
• 95min

In a small village in Africa, a nine-year-old girl, Shula, is accused of witchcraft and confined to a witch camp. Like other witches, she is tied to a white ribbon that curses her by turning into a goat when she cuts it. Can Shula...

Gala Presentation

• Japan
• 2017
• 140min

The latest work by Yukisada Isao, who is establishing his own refined sub-genre, crafting films about love rendered with an exquisite and subtle sensitivity. He narrates the scenes of a heartbreaking love story, weaving it togethe...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2017
• 130min

A general store teeming with various beautiful stories could be a miraculous place where past and present can talk to each other. As Namiya says, it is to identify the net. The net in the movie is called “the miracle of the genera...

Gala Presentation

• Korea,Japan
• 2017
• 110min

Director Jeong Jae-eun, known for her award-winning debut feature Take Care Of My Cat, shoots her first film in Japan with actress Nakayama Miho (Love Letter). Those who remember Love Letterwill again be mesmerized by Nakayama’s c...

World Cinema

• Argentina,Spain
• 2017
• 93min

Abraham Bursztein, an 88-year old Jewish tailor, leaves Buenos Aires for Poland, where he will try to find a friend from the old times who saved him from certain death after surviving Auschwitz. Escaping from his family who want t...