A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan,France,Germany,Myanmar
• 2016
• 108min

Lianqing is a 23-year-old Burmese. To find work, she and many others from Myanmar follow a secret route down the Mekong River and on into Thailand. Since she has no work permit, she starts out washing dishes for a low wage in a ru...

• Venice Film Festival (Venice Days), 2012 ACF Script Development Fund

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2016
• 90min

To avoid her oppressive father and brothers, Hanna claims she has been kidnapped and requires a ransom. With the money, she runs away with her lover Murry. They hitch a ride to Tehran with street musician Azie, but things don’t go...

• Venice Film Festival (Orizzonti)

Wide Angle

• Germany,Myanmar
• 2016
• 73min

In Exile is an autobiographical documentary by Myanmar’s Naing Tin Win. Having made a video clip of protests against the authoritarian regime in 2006, Naing was forced to escape the political oppression of his own country and cros...

• 2015 AND Busan Bank Fund

Wide Angle

• United States,Argentina,Australia,India,Japan,UK
• 2016
• 106min

Vignettes of modern love in all of its dizzying, sweet complications, culminating in one iconoclastic anthology. The film takes a passionate trip around the world with filmmakers Gael Garcia Bernal, Sion Sono, Anurag Kashyap, and ...

Wide Angle

• Hong Kong,China
• 2016
• 84min

When an invading space monster destroys the superhero sent to repel him, a world competition is launched to seek the best super robot to fight the monster. McDull is an average boy growing up in a fishing village and dreaming of b...

New Currents

• Korea
• 2016
• 101min

Mo Geumsan, a barber living in the countryside, is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Up to now, he has lived a routine life: He wakes up, works at the barbershop, exercises in the swimming pool, and drinks at the same bar every d...

• 2016 ACF Post-Production Fund

Wide Angle

• Indonesia,EastTimor
• 2016
• 35min

Maria is one of the female victims of sexual violence in East Timor in their dark years of independence. The past is past, but Maria always felt that her body has never been her own. She saw that the possibility could happen as we...

Midnight Passion

• UK
• 2016
• 111min

The near future; humanity has been all but destroyed by a mutated fungal disease that eradicates free will and turns its victims into flesh-eating zombies. Only a small group of children seem immune to its effects. At an army base...

Flash Forward

• Russia
• 2016
• 84min

A young man dies in an accident. Another man responsible for this accident fails to overcome the guilt and kills himself. The latter’s father, who lost a son overnight, tries to recover from the pain. He brings home an orphaned bo...

• BNK Busan Bank Award candidate

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2016
• 80min

In this modern adaptation of the ancient Persian poet Ferdowsi’s epic drama, the puppets set out in search of Rostam, an ancient hero who was abducted. After great hardship they rescue ancient heroes’ puppets that are facing crisi...