World Cinema

• United States
• 2016
• 116min

When multiple mysterious spacecraft touch down across the globe, an elite team is put together to investigate, including linguist Louise Banks, mathematician Ian Donnelly, and US Army Colonel Weber. Mankind teeters on the verge of...

• Venice Film Festival (In Competition)

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2016
• 122min

Korean society is extremely competitive, and sometimes you have to get dirt on your hands in order to survive. Of course, not all succeed after doing so. This is the case of the family in Come, Together. Middle-aged Bumgoo, his fa...

World Cinema

• Spain,Argentina
• 2016
• 97min

In the year of 1977, captain Tomas Koblic is about to face the most agonizing crossroads in his life: he find himself in command of a “death flight” accompanied by other repressors and surrounded by half-naked men and women in a d...

Special Programs in Focus

• Colombia,France
• 2016
• 95min

Daniel arrives at the Afro-Colombian community of La Barra on Colombia’s Pacific coast, trying to flee his past. The upcoming clash between a remote village, modernity?when a landowner tries to build a beach resort?and the town’s ...

• Berlin Film Festival (Forum), 2010

Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 2016
• 93min

It all began with a magazine article. One day in 1989, director Abbas Kiarostami happened to read an article about a young man in the Iranian magazine Sorush. One Hossain Sabzian impersonated director Mohsen Makhmalbaf to get mon...

World Cinema

• Turkey,Germany,Poland,France
• 2016
• 105min

Chehnaz, an attractive, modern woman and her husband, Cem, live in a hip neighborhood in Istanbul. Chehnaz is sent to a public hospital in a remote seaside town in order to complete her mandatory 2-year training as an aspiring psy...

• 2014 APM Project

Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 2016
• 76min

This documentary film reflects 76 minutes and 15 seconds of exceptional moments of Abbas Kiarostami’s daily life in respect of 76 years and 15 days of his fruitful and creative life in this material world. The shots of the film a...

Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 2016
• 32min

This film by Abbas Kiarostami, impressive in his philosophical narration regarding nature, is a black and white documentary compiling and re-filming the director’s collection of “road” pictures taken over several decades. The scen...

Wide Angle

• Hong Kong,China,France
• 2016
• 147min

Ta’ang is Chinese documentary filmmaker Wang Bing’s new film, which focuses on a refugee crisis?but these refugees are an ethnic minority. The Ta’ang live in the mountains of northern Burma and are battling government forces. Ta’a...

• 2015 Works-in-Progress(WIP) Project, Berlin Film Festival (Forum)

Flash Forward

• Mexico,France
• 2016
• 101min

Jasmin hears that her long-lost father Toussaint’s health is worsening. Toussaint is an illegal immigrant from Haiti, who is losing his memory from vascular dementia. After seeing the shabby and dirty house of Toussaint, Jasmin br...