Flash Forward

• Argentina,Chile
• 2017
• 78min

54-year-old Teresa has worked for decades as a live-in maid with a family in Buenos Aires. When the family sells the house, she is forced to take a job in the distant town of San Juan. Although feeling uncomfortable with traveling...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand,Germany,Norway
• 2017
• 108min

While the film’s title may conjure up all sorts of “exotic” motifs, Samui Song reveals itself to be a multifaceted dark thriller and a biting social commentary on both the Thai upper class and the powers of local religious cults. ...

• APM 2014

Wide Angle

• Thailand,Myanmar
• 2017
• 16min

Like the use of sound in a film, the voice of the masses often goes unnoticed or unheard. Two sound recordists working on a short demonstrate how crucial both are, and how audiences and populations should be listening.

• 6

Midnight Passion

• Japan,United States
• 2017
• 90min

For six college students carpooling cross-country, a seemingly mundane blow-out is the beginning of a grueling fight for survival. They’re in the midst of changing the flat tire when they discover a spent slug and realize this was...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2017
• 129min

Kurosawa Kiyoshi is an icon of J-horror, depicting the dark world in a grotesque way. This movie also shows his unique style fully. It’s a psychological horror revealing the brutality of a human mind in a contemplative way, rather...

New Currents

• Korea
• 2017
• 123min

A couple that owns an interiors shop had a son, Eunchan, who died saving a friend, Gihyeon, from drowning during a trip six months earlier. The father is still suffering from the loss and is barely holding on. One day, he witnesse...

• 2017 ACF Post-Production Fund

Special Programs in Focus

• Japan
• 2017
• 91min

In a world where killers are ranked, all snipers have their scopes focused on one another. Hanada is a gun-for-hire listed as the No. 3 hit-man of the underworld. During a job worth five million yen, he successfully takes out two ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia,France,Malaysia,Thailand
• 2017
• 95min

Unfolding in the titular four acts, the film transforms Indonesia’s eastern island of Sumba into a stunningly beautiful yet somewhat sinister stage for a tale of rape-revenge, motherhood and quest for justice. Marlina, a young chi...

• APM 2015

Opening Film & Closing Film

• China,Taiwan
• 2017
• 120min

A dying old lady reminisces about her happier moments. Her daughter, Hui Ying, decides to move her father’s grave from his hometown to beside her mother’s grave. However, his first wife, who has looked after the grave for years, d...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2017
• 112min

Kai, a young middle schooler, lives in Hinashi Town, a lonely fishing village, with his father and his grandfather, a sun-umbrella maker. He used to live in Tokyo, but after his parents divorced he moved back to his parent’s home ...

• Focus: YUASA MASAAKI