A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2016
• 124min

The Long Excuse tells the story of a husband left alone by his wife’s sudden death after 20 years of marriage. Sachio is a writer living a celebrity life occasionally aired on TV. In spite of what is publicly shown, he suffers fro...

• 2014 APM Project

World Cinema

• Brazil
• 2016
• 145min

Aquarius is an old apartment located in the harbor city of Recife in Brazil. Built in the 1940s as a two-story building, it is the place where the 62-year-old former music critic Clara spent her whole life. When a mass development...

• Cannes Film Festival (In Competition)

Flash Forward

• Switzerland,France
• 2016
• 91min

Middle-aged Aloys is a private detective working at his father’s private agency. His life is comprised of obsessive and repetitive observation of other people’s lives through 24-hour surveillance videos. When his father dies, his ...

• FIPRESCI Prize at Panorama, Berlin Film Festival

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2016
• 105min

The film depicts the life of Angdu, the reincarnation of a Tibetan high monk, who lived 1500 years ago. Angdu was born a Rinpoche in a secluded village beyond the Tibetan border. A monk of a small temple is willing to make Angdu h...

World Cinema

• Poland
• 2016
• 98min

Born in Belarus, Władysław Strzemi?ski is a representative avant-garde artist of 20th century Poland. He launched a magazine, Blok, with his peers under the influence of Constructivism and Neo-Plasticism, and created a unique theo...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2016
• 105min

Natsuko is a natural-born, self-centered con artist. Her cousin, Tetsuko, is disciplined and has worked hard to become a successful attorney. Although Tetsuko is married and has a respectable job, she feels empty and alienated by ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2016
• 105min

Chronicles of Hari begins with two young documentary filmmakers interviewing Yakshagana artists. Yakshagana is a type of Indian folk theater in which all the characters are played by men. The documentary crew wants to research Har...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand,Netherlands,France,Qatar
• 2016
• 105min

Ann, a film director, wants to make a movie based on the massacre of university students at the hands of the military in turbulent 1970s Thailand. While preparing for the film, she meets and begins to interview Taew, a former stud...

Open Cinema

• Colombia
• 2016
• 98min

Twenty-eight-year old Alberto lives with his mother Rosa on a seaside marshland. Diagnosed with dystonia in childhood, Alberto is bed-ridden but keeps a cheerful disposition, and Rosa devotes herself to him. But reality is beyond...

• Audience Award and Best Acting Awards at Sundance Film Festival

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia
• 2016
• 77min

This film tells the story of a rich family in 1960’s South Sulawesi, Indonesia, where polygamy was practiced at the time. Athirah is a housewife who lives happily with her husband and son. But her life turns upside down when it’s ...