World Cinema

• Italy,Switzerland,France
• 2017
• 95min

Giovanna is a social worker who runs a local community center, La Masseria, for disadvantaged children. Her good intentions are called into question when she offers the family of a criminal a place to stay. The camera first shows ...

Wide Angle

• Cambodia,UK,Ireland,Canada
• 2017
• 126min

In 1993, Cambodia had its first democratic election. At the same time, the winds of development propelled by a free market economy swept the country. This documentary depicts the struggles and resistance of those forced to leave t...

Special Programs in Focus

• Russia
• 2017
• 91min

A naive simpleton Keskil meets his notorious conman-friend Vityok, who thwarted Keskil’s wedding in the first part of the film, after stealing the bride’s cow. Though they had split up, Vityok persuades Keskil to turn the tables, ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2017
• 106min

Taesik makes a living collecting recyclable wastes or stealing waste metals from empty houses in the redevelopment zone. When his friend takes him to a karaoke club, Taesik meets Sooeun, who works as a hostess there. His friend in...

Wide Angle

• Indonesia
• 2017
• 114min

Tarling Dangdut is Indonesian traditional music of Java, performed with erotic dancing by skimpily clad female singers. It is popular with the public but Muslim clerics are trying to ban it because they see it as shameful. Followi...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2017
• 137min

In May, 1980, the Gwangju Democratization Movement was brutally suppressed with innumerable citizen casualties. The massacre in Gwangju was thoroughly concealed, and on-the-scene reporting was virtually impossible even for foreign...

Wide Angle

• Austria,Germany
• 2017
• 96min

Set in Tehran at night, this animation about damaged people illustrates how dark the world can look when strict religious morals and social regulations are imposed. The characters were created through rotoscoping technique. Hence ...

Flash Forward

• Finland,United States
• 2017
• 115min

Tom of Finland portrays the life of Touko Laaksonen, who had a significant influence on gay culture in the 20th century. Moving between the present and the past, this film views his life and art as a gay, capturing the essence of ...

Midnight Passion

• Hong Kong,China
• 2017
• 100min

Hong Kong cop Lee goes on a search in Thailand for his missing daughter Chi. Thai-Chinese police officer Chui Kit lets Lee join the investigation, having no idea that Lee is going to use the mass media to hunt for clues. When a sh...

Midnight Passion

• United States
• 2017
• 92min

In the throes of a zombie apocalypse, Molly?a troubled woman from Las Vegas with a dark past?finds herself stranded in the desert with a lone ravenous zombie on her tail. At first, she’s easily able to outpace her un-dead pursuer,...