Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2016
• 27min

Nine years ago, high school girl Jeongmin suggested a bizarre plan to her same-sex lover, Yoonseong, that they have a child who looks like both of them. Jeongmin’s wedding, scheduled in a few days, is just the start of that scheme...

Wide Angle

• Austria,Denmark
• 2016
• 92min

Hunters from Germany and Austria track down wild animals like the bushbuck, impala, zebra, and gnu on the open plains of Africa. Firing their rifles, the hunters shout with excitement and then pose in front of dead animal carcasse...

• Venice Film Festival (Out of Competition)

World Cinema

• Italy,United States,France
• 2016
• 105min

In a nearly abandoned village at the base of a mountain, Agostino, his wife Nina and son Giovanni live in near poverty. Blocking out the sun, the mountain has reduced Agostino’s farm to useless dust, rendering what little he grows...

• Venice Film Festival (Out of Competition)

Flash Forward

• Argentina
• 2016
• 80min

Buenos Aires in 1977 under military dictatorship. Francisco Sanctis, an office-dweller in his 40s, is only concerned about his long-awaited promotion. But what lies ahead of him is not promotion, but Elena, a friend from universit...

• Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard)

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong,China,China
• 2016
• 88min

Three is a medical action drama directed by the master of Hong Kong noir, Johnnie To. In a hospital ward, where life and death continually cross each other, the three protagonists have mingled feelings of fate. A neurosurgeon obse...

World Cinema

• Romania,Germany
• 2016
• 141min

In the summer of 1937, young Emmanuel is diagnosed with tuberculosis and stays in a nursing home on the coast of the Black Sea. He is essentially tied to the bed after undergoing spinal surgery, but his days are not all gloomy bec...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2016
• 23min

Miyeon gets a job as an apprentice chicken sexer. Her work is to determine the sex of a chick. Believing that she will be able to become a regular employee, she works hard and patiently.

Wide Angle

• Nepal
• 2016
• 15min

Two Buddhist lamas are individually dealing with their own personal crises. Older Paljor is wracked with guilt and younger Tashi has lost perspective. When they meet at a retreat intended to help them find clarity they wind up cha...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India,Croatia
• 2016
• 138min

Fan, a new film from the well-known Bollywood filmmaker Shahrukh Khan, is a thriller far unlike anything else in his oeuvre. Khan creates the most challenging and interesting character in his acting career by playing two roles at ...

Wide Angle

• Philippines,Hong Kong,China,Japan,UK
• 2016
• 94min

In Hong Kong, more than 190,000 female Filipina immigrants work as house maids. They live in with their employers and provide 24-hour services six days per week, with just Sunday off. Twenty-nine-year-old Cherry goes to Chater Gar...

• 2016 AND BIFF Mecenat Fund