A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2017
• 104min

The spirit of our youth that trusts in our self-value and dream seems to turn into hopeless and irresponsible folly as we grow older if we don’t find success. This movie teaches us how to embrace our failures. The scenes and sound...

Flash Forward

• Italy
• 2017
• 97min

When Manuel turns 18, he returns home from the foster care facility where he stayed since his mother was sent to prison. As he wanders about the streets, he feels freedom is half bitter. He tries to prove that he is a grown-up who...

Gala Presentation

• United States
• 2017
• 121min

A couple’s relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence. From filmmaker Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan, Requiem for a Dream), Mother! stars Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, ...

Wide Angle

• Indonesia
• 2017
• 14min

Working offshore in fishing, intensely homesick and depressed, siblings Melati and Ilalang slog through their days, coping as best they can. Melati releases young fish; Ilalang experiments with his sexuality. A brutal assault brin...

Flash Forward

• SouthAfrica
• 2017
• 120min

In Marseilles, where Apartheid is still in effect, Tau is the leader of Five Fingers, the only group of boys who secretly resist Apartheid. He happens to kill two cops, which provokes extreme violence that thrusts the Five Fingers...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand
• 2017
• 94min

Director Anucha Boonyawatana’s lovers’ story unfolds with a perspective of karma and reincarnation. Shane is beautiful in body, but loved ones leave him one by one. Pich loves him, but also becomes terminally ill. Pich runs away t...

Flash Forward

• Poland,Italy
• 2017
• 105min

2030, in a not so distant dystopian future. Adam escapes from poor part of Warsaw to a new City. With a help of a secret society, Adam gets a flat in an old building and finds a job a cleaner. He falls in love with Goria, a beauti...

Wide Angle

• Australia
• 2017
• 74min

A unique cinematic and musical collaboration between the Australian Chamber Orchestra and BAFTAnominated director Jennifer Peedom, Mountain is a dazzling exploration of our obsession with mountains. Only three centuries ago, climb...

New Currents

• Taiwan
• 2017
• 100min

In the summer of 2000, a couple meets at the brightest point of their lives. The Last Verse follows their subsequent stormy 20 years. Ren-jie and Xiao-ping fall in love and promise each other the future together. Ren-jie, who is a...

Wide Angle

• France
• 2017
• 96min

Makala means coal in Swahili. To Kabwita, who lives in the Congolese forest, coal is the fortune with which to build a house and future for his family. Portraying the tough journey to sell coal, the film presents courage, inspirat...