Flash Forward

• Australia
• 2016
• 87min

Sullen, defiant and on probation following her release from juvenile detention, 17 year old Amy is living with her adoptive parents. Her relationship with them is not going well especially her father, Peter. They move into a new h...

• BNK Busan Bank Award candidate

New Currents

• India
• 2016
• 115min

A film that questions the idea of “filmmaking” in a chaotic age, an age of division and conflict in Indian society. To Hari, born to a Muslim father and a Hindu mother, India is an achromatic society. Thanks to his parents, who me...

Wide Angle

• Myanmar
• 2016
• 18min

Myanmar, 2007. Thousands gather in the streets to protest country’s oppressive military regime. Thiha, a young Buddhist monk flees for his life as soldiers crush the demonstration. He happens upon Salabi, a Muslim woman, and learn...

World Cinema

• Belgium,Netherlands,Bulgaria
• 2016
• 94min

Nicholas III, king of Belgium, is visiting Istanbul. To improve the boring image of royalty, he begins his official schedule with a British documentary filmmaker, but following the unexpected news that Wallonia has declared indepe...

• Venice Film Festival (Orizzonti)

Special Programs in Focus

• Colombia
• 2016
• 28min

Flash Forward

• Namibia
• 2016
• 70min

The Unseen follows the emotional, physical realities of three characters, wandering and musing in the midst of a volatile, chaotic post-colonial Namibia. The first character is an African-American actor who needs to play the chara...

Gala Presentation

• Japan
• 2016
• 142min

This film reveals that “truth” to human beings is actually just an “easily shakable belief.” Lee Sang-il’s screen adaptation of Yoshida Shuichi’s original novel features a star-studded cast including Watanabe Ken, Miyazaki Aoi, Ts...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2016
• 104min

Songjun is an unknown actor who often has to borrow money from his brother to get by. On one of his grim days, Songjun is cast as the lead in a play about homosexuality. The play is successful and Songjun is lauded for his perform...

• 2016 ACF Post-Production Fund

Flash Forward

• UK
• 2016
• 95min

A couple, Tom and Nic are happy, off the scale. Tom is a writer, whilst Nic, eight months pregnant, has just left her company on maternity leave. Their daughter Grace, is three and fascinated by all things ‘star’- especially starf...

• BNK Busan Bank Award candidate

New Currents

• France,SriLanka,Netherlands,Qatar
• 2016
• 84min

Set in a small northern Sri Lankan village in 1989, Burning Birds is a film critical of society. Director Sanjieewa Pushpakumara considers this society in which social violence is inflicted upon a female breadwinner. After an ille...