World Cinema

• France,Belgium
• 2017
• 130min

Promise at Dawn is based on an autobiographical novel by Russian-French author Romain Gary (nee Roman Kacew), and following the original book, tells the story of tender love between mother and son. Beginning with Romain Gary handi...

New Currents

• China
• 2017
• 97min

One Night on the Wharf is a satirical black comedy with unique characters in a series of accidents. The members of a poetry-loving club in a village near the Yangtze leave for a picnic. After flirting with the worker at the snack ...

Gala Presentation

• Japan
• 2017
• 124min

The film opens at the scene of a homicide with the murderer setting fire to a corpse. He confesses his crime shortly after, making a lawyer named Shigemori begrudgingly take the case. As Misumi already has a prior conviction for h...

World Cinema

• Cuba,Spain
• 2017
• 93min

In 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed and the Cold War era came to an end, Sergei had to stay in the Mir space station, which Russia operates, and run in Earth orbit sixteen times a day. To Sergio, a philosophy professor special...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2017
• 215min

Japan’s documentary master, Hara Kazuo, has now documented the lives of the victims of asbestos poisoning in the Sennan area of Osaka over ten years. Some victims and their families were Koreans conscripted for the Japanese workfo...

Open Cinema

• United States
• 2017
• 123min

From master storyteller, Guillermo del Toro, comes The Shape of Water?an other-worldly fairy tale set against the backdrop of Cold War-era America circa 1962. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lone...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2017
• 102min

Miso is a 31-year-old housemaid making 45,000 KRW per day in Seoul. Her only joys in life are cigarettes, one glass of whiskey after work, and her poor boyfriend who dreams of becoming a webtoon artist. Though not rich, Miso is co...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2017
• 89min

Nowadays, the only ones remaining in Korean rural villages are senior citizens, farming and living in harmony with nature. Although the rhythm of their lives differs from that of city dwellers, they do no harm, and yet the governm...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2017
• 112min

A boy’s body is found in a waste disposal site in Manila. The case intrigues Father Gus, a Jesuit specializing in forensic medicine. Collaborating with Father Jerome and helped by his disciple and journalist Joanna, Father Gus goe...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2017
• 107min

Shukla, a young man from a ruined Brahmin family, gets married according to his mother’s wishes. Shukla brags about Brahmin pride, but the reality is that he is a rickshaw driver living in a single room with his whole family. Shuk...