Flash Forward

• Sweden,Denmark
• 2016
• 90min

30-year-old Rikard is autistic, constantly ridiculed because of his severely disfigured appearance. Having been separated from his mother as soon as he was born, he escapes from his grim reality into a fantasy world in which he’s ...

Opening Film & Closing Film

• Iraq,Germany,Qatar
• 2016
• 92min

A film about innocent love, traditional values and the collision of conflicting religious beliefs, The Dark Wind is the third feature film by Hussein Hassan, a renowned actor and writer in Kurdistan, Iraq making its international ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2016
• 108min

In Seoul 2015, a girl displays strange symptoms after a hit-and-run. Having gotten into trouble with the church due to frequent, unexpected behavior, Priest Kim has his own plans for saving the girl despite opposition and suspicio...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Singapore,France,Germany,Hong Kong,China,Qatar
• 2016
• 96min

Is it be possible to become friends with the person who took the life of a family member? Aiman, a young prison guard, is transferred to the country’s most secure prison where he meets Rahim, the prison’s chief executioner and the...

• Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard), 2012 ACF Script Development Fund

Wide Angle

• Italy,Switzerland
• 2016
• 122min

While French actress Marina Vlady recites Jorge Luis Borges’ story “The Immortal” in an abandoned theater, Japanese marine biologist Kuboda praises the “immortal jellyfish” on the other side of the globe, restorers repair statues ...

• Venice Film Festival (In Competition)

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2016
• 100min

Young police officer Choi Munoh is overworked and lousily paid. So bad in fact that his girlfriend threatens to leave him if he doesn’t quit his risky job, but he decides to stay. The chief of police, who is the dedicated and warm...

Wide Angle

• Japan,United States
• 2016
• 93min

This investigative documentary film shows what is going on in Taiji, a small fishing village in Japan, after 2010’s The Cove, also a documentary that brought international attention to this village. The Cove featured a dolphin tra...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2016
• 21min

Hawon, whose matinee idol star “J” is a relative, asks her classmates to elect her as class president on condition that she get J’s autograph for them all. But the election brings an unexpected result.

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2016
• 129min

Kim Jeongho Gosanja, born during the Joseon Dynasty in the 19th century, made Daedongyeojido, the most accurate map of Korea of the time. He decided to make a precise map after his father had frozen to death on a mountain because ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2016
• 93min

A thriller about a contract killer who wants to retire. Ben used to have a wife and son but ended up lonely after living for decades traversing the dark underworld. He wants to make a clean break, not just from his employer but al...