Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2016
• 90min

The film follows three immigrant workers from Burma. Living together on a building’s rooftop in the Masoek Furniture Industrial Complex, they sometimes cook Burmese dishes, or eat “kimchi” and “ramyon” alone, or drink and enjoy th...

• 2015 AND BIFF Mecenat Fund

Flash Forward

• Finland,Germany,Sweden
• 2016
• 92min

On the verge of becoming the world featherweight boxing champion in 1962, Olli Maki runs into a problem: his focus on losing weight and preparing for his title match are at risk because of his emotions. Why? He has suddenly fallen...

• Un Certain Regard Award at Cannes Film Festival

Special Programs in Focus

• Iran,France
• 2016
• 103min

This is the last in the Koker Trilogy, following Where is the Friend’s Home and And Life goes on. After stories of a boy searching for his friend’s home, and a film director searching for the boys, out of touch due to an earthquak...

Wide Angle

• Italy,France
• 2016
• 90min

A masterwork about the status of child trafficking in the Third World. The film begins with a poor family in the developing world. A father is away in a foreign country to earn money, a mother sustains her two sons in poverty, and...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2016
• 104min

Yongsoon, an 18-year-old high school student, is a daring, fearless girl who falls in love with the coach of her school’s athletics team. When she discovers that he has a lover, the pain is almost too much for her to bear. To make...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2016
• 95min

In the first of Lee Doo Yong’s taekwondo films, Japanese karate instructor Sasaki, Chinese martial arts master Wang, and Korean taekwondo expert Lee fight over a chest of gold that’s earmarked for the Korean Independence Army. A b...

Flash Forward

• UK
• 2016
• 94min

Una, based on David Harrower’s play Blackbird, follows a young woman’s journey to reclaim her past. Fifteen years earlier, Una ran away with an older man, Ray, a crime for which he was arrested and imprisoned. When she comes acros...

World Cinema

• Argentina,Spain
• 2016
• 117min

Nobel laureate Daniel is an international author whose arrogance knows no limits. Refusing all lecture requests and autograph events, he shuts himself up in a mansion in Barcelona. One day, he receives an invitation from his homet...

• Venice Film Festival (In Competition)

World Cinema

• SlovakRepublic,Czech Republic
• 2016
• 102min

Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1983. A teacher named Maria takes a new post at an elementary school in a peaceful village. Something feels odd when she questions the occupation of every students’ parents on her first day of class. ...

Wide Angle

• Singapore,Indonesia,Malaysia,Philippines,Thailand
• 2016
• 30min

Five award-winning ASEAN film directors celebrate Southeast Asian art through this collection of short films. As an omnibus of short films, is inspired by the art collection found at the National Gallery Singapore, Each of the fiv...