Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2016
• 117min

The scene is Daegu in 2003, and Haegwan’s only daughter Yuju goes missing. Haegwan scours the country for his lost daughter for 10 years with no signs or clues as to her whereabouts. When everyone advises him to give up on her, he...

World Cinema

• France,Portugal,Spain
• 2016
• 115min

August 1715. Louis XIV complains of leg pains in the middle of night. For days afterwards, he tries to perform his official duties despite the pain, but his body weakens and soon he is not able to rise from bed. An ulcer is found ...

• Cannes Film Festival (Special Screening)

Wide Angle

• Thailand
• 2016
• 22min

Ayutthaya Witthayalai School was founded by King Rama VIII in 1939, seven years before his untimely death. A filmmaker recollects the many stories and memories he had as a student within its walls, drawing parallels between his ti...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2016
• 110min

In a slummy area where people can’t finish a sentence without swearing, Rosa is the de facto the head of the household, taking care of her husband Nesto and four children. She runs a small grocery store selling things bought at bi...

• Cannes Film Festival (In Competition), Best Actress Award at Cannes Film Festival

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2016
• 134min

The young son of India’s Home Minister is kidnapped. A rumor about the kidnapping spreads on social media but the minister keeps quite about it and tries to find the boy himself by using his administrative powers and a small minor...

Flash Forward

• Germany,Switzerland
• 2016
• 101min

While working in Germany as a hotel maid, Ukrainian woman Marija dreams of opening her own beauty salon. But when she is discovered stealing earrings, she is fired and her means of achieving her dream evaporate in an instant. She ...

Flash Forward

• Spain
• 2016
• 96min

Following her mother’s death, Maria is left to care for her father and her siblings. When her brothers leave home, she has to lay aside her dreams of becoming a writer to look after her cancer-stricken father. One day, when the en...

• BNK Busan Bank Award candidate

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2016
• 22min

Yeonjeong is a would-be actress, and an audition for a firefighter’s role is suddenly scheduled. To show her passion for performance, she goes to the audition clad as a firefighter, only to be scolded by the AD and the scripter.

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2016
• 112min

Mei Bao is a 32-year old woman working in a frozen foods company. She enjoys her job and the product she makes, believing that her mother expressed her love through the many frozen dinners she prepared for her as a child and that ...

New Currents

• China,Hong Kong,China
• 2016
• 108min

A portrait of modern people who have forgotten how to converse, Someone to Talk to is Liu Yulin’s feature film debut and was based on the book of the same title by Liu Zhenyun. Cobbler Aiguo is in conflict with his wife, while his...