New Currents

• Iran,Afghanistan
• 2016
• 78min

Having moved from Afghanistan to Iran with his family at the age of six, Parting is Navid Mahmoudi’s debut feature film, which explores the ongoing tragedy of illegal immigrants from Afghanistan. Nabi and Fereshteh are in love but...

Flash Forward

• Israel
• 2016
• 98min

In Judaism, the mourning period after a funeral is called “shiva”. However, one week is just not enough for Eyal and Vicky who lose their 25-year-old son. When “shiva” is over, each reacts differently. Vicky returns to her life a...

• Cannes Film Festival (Critics′ Week)

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia
• 2016
• 90min

Set in Indonesia’s Dutch colonial era, in 1927, a young and beautiful woman lives with her sick and aged Dutch husband. This woman loses her own name and is called Njai, which means a foreigner’s concubine, and realizes that she i...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Bhutan
• 2016
• 132min

In a remote area in Bhutan, the chief monk at a Buddhist temple goes missing. The police suspect murder, and detective Kinley is assigned to investigate. The main suspect in the case is a woman named Choden, and Kinley tries to tr...

• 2016 ACF Post-Production Fund

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2016
• 37min

Jihoon purchases lethal sleeping pills illegally. Jihoon’s wife, while arranging his clothes, discovers the pills and gets confused. For both of the husband and wife, a sleepless night is prolonged.

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2016
• 115min

The head of technology development at a computer company tries to care for his parents after a flood forces them to move out of their hometown and into Seoul. Having long been concerned about his aging parents living alone, he pla...

World Cinema

• Spain
• 2016
• 108min

As they had promised, high school lovers Manuela and Olmo meet again after 15 years apart. They search for memories of their former selves; words and emotions that could explain their past, present and future?a journey to help the...

Wide Angle

• Czech Republic
• 2016
• 95min

Lida Baarova: an actress whose beauty was her greatest gift as well as her curse. As a young, attractive girl she quickly became the leading Czechoslovak movie star and was able to captivate the most feared men of her era, Joseph ...

Wide Angle

• France
• 2016
• 77min

Director Pierre Rissient has been a film buff since his teenage years in Paris in the 1950s. Starting his 60-year saga as a programmer at the legendary Cinema Mac-Mahon, followed by stints as an assistant to Jean-Luc Godard, a pre...

World Cinema

• France,Portugal,Brazil
• 2016
• 118min

Fernando is swept away by rapids while trekking in search of a rare bird. Rescued by Chinese pilgrims, he begins his journey home from the dark and eerie forest; he seems to become a completely different person, inspired and even ...