Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2016
• 110min

Jeongho, the son of a government official, and Jaok, a government minister’s daughter, are in love. Jaok’s father doesn’t approve of the relationship and sends her away to be a concubine for the king?a move that could all too know...

World Cinema

• Egypt
• 2016
• 115min

Yehia, a famous chef of the village, owns a catering business with his two sons, Galal and Refaat. The two sons are completely different. Galal is a troublemaker and an ex-con who loves women (even married ones), while Refaat is a...

Gala Presentation

• Japan
• 2016
• 106min

The much-anticipated new animated film from Shinkai Makoto, hailed by some as even the “Post Miyazaki Hayao”. It features an all-star line-up of filmmakers, musicians, and voice actors including character designer Tanaka Masayosi,...

Special Programs in Focus

• Colombia
• 2016
• 87min

Flesh of Your Flesh is a realistic portrait, while at the same time a fantasy, of the political and economic elite at the time of The Violence in Colombia, from the mid-1940s until the mid-1960s. In this horror film?also a tragic ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Singapore,France
• 2016
• 112min

Recently released from prison, Siva works part time at funerals while searching for his wife and daughter, who left him shortly after he was put away. In spite of his desperate efforts, no one, including his own mother, is willing...

• Cannes Film Festival (Critics′ Week)

Wide Angle

• Belgium,Netherlands
• 2016
• 15min

In a future utopia, science continues the quest for eternal youth, but in doing so unleashes a toxin into the world with devastating consequences: accelerated aging. During a mass evacuation, lovers Dante and Irea are separated, w...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2016
• 138min

Meehee meets a high school girl. She follows the girl and ends up at the house of Cho Sungsook. Although it’s the first time they’ve met, Meehee insists that they were once actually close friends. Sungsook accepts Meehee’s claim a...

Flash Forward

• Denmark,France,Sweden,Afghanistan
• 2016
• 86min

Afghan villagers often share stories full of mystery and imagination to explain the world. The country’s mountaintops serve as a playground for children, who maintain gender separation even when no adults are present to enforce it...

• CICAE Award at Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes Film Festival

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2016
• 70min

Ninko, a young, diligent Buddhist monk, has one serious problem: Women can’t seem to resist him. They pester him so much that he can’t even ask for alms in town. Since sexual indulgence is considered a sin, he blames himself for n...

Wide Angle

• Nepal,France
• 2016
• 16min

Some of the last residents living in a Nepalese village, Atimaley and Devi, have only each other and their past to keep them company. After a friend becomes the very last to leave, they ponder whether to move on or remain with the...