A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2017
• 108min

Human organ trafficking is modern cannibalism. This is a Taiwanese noir film mixed with ancient words and family drama, touching our hearts in its repeated twists that continue to the end. A middle-aged man, Ronin, and his Christi...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2017
• 23min

Peco and Smile belong to the ping pong team at Katase High School. Smile had started playing ping pong when he was a child, but he couldn’t beat Peco. The team coach starts giving Smile private lessons. . . A dream collaboration o...

• Focus: YUASA MASAAKI

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2017
• 105min

Hadong and Chaebok flee to the countryside and build their own house, living there as an old aged couple. The theme of this film is a phase of life as old people. The film quietly follows the couple’s daily routine. Crops grow out...

New Currents

• India
• 2017
• 104min

An older woman goes out looking for her granddaughter Manda, who hasn’t come home yet, and finds her abandoned next to the local railroad. While taking care of her granddaughter, who has been raped, she asks the police for help. T...

Special Programs in Focus

• Russia
• 2017
• 26min

Two men, who are exact opposites of each other, are competing for a woman. One of them is a hunter, a man of old patriarchal traditions, believing deeply in the spirits of waters, earth, and forests. And the second one is young, b...

Wide Angle

• China
• 2017
• 77min

Xiao Zhang, the driver for a criminal gang, steals a million RMB from his boss. When his fiancee’s plastic surgery fails, he needs money for her to have it redone in Korea. His boss sends someone after him to recover the cash. In ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2017
• 117min

An unsolved murder occurs in a new town. Seunghoon, a physician who, after opening a clinic in Gangnam, ended up bankrupt and divorced, gets a job at his friend’s hospital and moves into a studio apt in the new town. The building ...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2017
• 111min

A woman’s biographical animation featuring her story through the modern history of Taiwan, similar to the democratization process of South Korea. Lin was born in 1975 when Chiang Kai-shek passed away. As a young child, she moves f...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2017
• 122min

While living alone and working as a guide in Vietnam, Seok meets a Vietnamese woman and her son Min, and marries her. Later, Seok returns to his hometown in Busan, and begins to work at a shipyard in Yeongdo. Meanwhile, his older ...

Wide Angle

• Nepal
• 2017
• 14min

A tourist?a white man?arriving in a remote Himalayan village piques the interest of the children who live there. Young Jaalgedi is so taken with the stranger that she loses focus on her shepherd work, unwittingly allowing disaster...