Wide Angle

• Nepal,Canada,China
• 2017
• 92min

Known as the birthplace of Buddha, Lumbini, Nepal, is a famous pilgrimage site with more than 40 Buddhist temples. In the temples, hundreds of children, mostly orphans, receive care and education as trainees. The film documents th...

Wide Angle

• Philippines
• 2017
• 16min

Shooting a documentary on the drug trade quickly descends into a dangerous obsession for two student filmmakers. With brothers Betong and Roel as underworld guides, the students become characters in their own film as the night wea...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2017
• 120min

In this prequel to Brotherhood of Blades (2014), Lu Yang continues to elaborate on the loyalty of those who find themselves caught up in an incident surrounding the Ming Dynasty. Shen Lian, played by Chang Chen, still appears as a...

Midnight Passion

• United States,Canada
• 2017
• 95min

Sam, a former rodeo star leading a small-time life, unknowingly starts a rapport with a young man named Elwood, who is responsible for the violence that has suddenly gripped Sam’s small town. Every character, from Sam’s loved ones...

World Cinema

• Australia
• 2017
• 113min

Sam, a middle-aged Aboriginal man, works the land of a kind preacher, Fred Smith. When Harry March, an ill-tempered and bitter man returning from the Western Front, arrives in town, Sam is sent out with his family to help renovate...

Open Cinema

• Russia
• 2017
• 119min

Salyut-7, the unmanned Soviet space station, was orbiting Earth when it suddenly stopped responding to signals from Ground Control. The fall of the station, pride of the soviet science and space industry, would not only damage the...

Wide Angle

• China
• 2017
• 44min

The film documents the life, art and troubles of the late Ren Hang. He was a Chinese photographer and poet who took nude photographs of his friends with a cheap digital camera. While his controversial work faced censorship, he gai...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2017
• 104min

A forensic scientist, Dr. Nariman, has a collision with Moosa’s family riding a motorbike at night. In the accident, Moosa’s eight-year-old son sustains minor injuries, but Moosa declines to take him to the hospital. The next morn...

Flash Forward

• UK
• 2017
• 104min

Johnny Saxby works long hours on his family’s remote farm in the north of England. He numbs the daily frustration of his lonely existence with nightly binge-drinking at the local pub and casual sex. But when a handsome Romanian mi...

Wide Angle

• United States
• 2017
• 86min

Iranian actor Behrouz Vossoughi is, beyond a doubt, a legend. A star whose appeal crossed age, class and social boundaries, Vossoughi’s performances in nearly 100 films have been the gold standard for Iranian actors featuring just...