Special Programs in Focus

• Colombia
• 2016
• 98min

Pure Blood is the first feature length film by the Cali Group. Based on Andres Caicedo’s story, combined with Cali’s macabre legend of the Monster of Mangones, gave Luis Ospina and Alberto Quiroga the initial material for the film...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2016
• 15min

After-service engineers are asked to visit Soonae’s home?several of them in one day. Each of her out-of-order home appliances has a history of its own. On her birthday, she prepares dishes and has dinner with one after-service eng...

Open Cinema

• India,Hungary
• 2016
• 170min

Sultan is a man of great strength but he is lazy. He meets Aarfa by chance and falls in love at first sight and when he learns of her enthusiasm for wrestling, he gets into the world of wrestling to capture her heart. He is talent...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2016
• 489min

The film begins on the day before the execution of Jose Rizal, one of the national heroes of the Philippines. Starting from political propaganda movements to reform the Spanish colonial system, which had lasted more than three hun...

• 2012 APM Project, 2015 Works-in-Progress(WIP) Project, Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize at Berlin Film Festival

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2016
• 74min

This film talks about five free spirits as the director encounters them. Freedom in this film is not romantic but desperate, trying to break the chains of life that drive people living today in one direction. They dream of a life ...

Wide Angle

• India
• 2016
• 96min

A tent is pitched in the middle of the festival grounds and an old projector is readied for a screening. Light travels above the audience, gathering in the blissful moments as it’s reflected on the screen that hangs inside the dar...

• 2014 AND Busan Bank Fund

World Cinema

• Romania
• 2016
• 173min

It’s a Saturday in Bucharest. The camera pans around through a busy street under construction and captures an SUV looking for a place to stop to pick up the family. It also captures a mother and daughter waiting restlessly for the...

• Cannes Film Festival (In Competition)

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2016
• 18min

Mori is a girl who collects the carcass of victimized animals from roadkill to bury them. Her elder sister doesn’t like her doing that, and the two have a quarrel. But the real reason that Mori cannot leave this place is something...

Open Cinema

• Italy
• 2016
• 100min

While the world is aflame in war in 1943, Arturo falls in love. However, his love Flora is promised to marry, against her will, a son of New York Mafia boss. The only choice left to penniless Arturo is to find Flora’s father in Si...

Flash Forward

• Bulgaria,Denmark,France
• 2016
• 99min

Gana is a caregiver for seniors with dementia in a secluded Bulgarian village. But under the disguise of her job, she steals their ID cards and sell them on the black market. Gana is also a morphine addict, and with her boyfriend...

• Pardo d’oro at Locarno International Film Festival