World Cinema

• France,Germany
• 2016
• 113min

In Germany just after the end of the First World War, Anna looks after the grave of her fiance, Frantz, while seeking comfort from his parents. Frenchman, Adrien, who claims he went to music school with Frantz in Paris, visits his...

• Venice Film Festival (In Competition)

Wide Angle

• France
• 2016
• 192min

A Journey Through French Cinema is master director Bertrand Tavernier’s love letter to French Cinema, showing him to be not just a filmmaker but a passionate cinephile. Tavernier takes as model My Voyage to Italy (2002) of Martin ...

Flash Forward

• Italy
• 2016
• 90min

A solar storm hits a small village in Italy, causing power surges and blackouts, and people begin to act strangely. Another storm rages within Regina, a spinster referred to as Fraulein, when she allows a childlike sexagenarian to...

• BNK Busan Bank Award candidate

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2016
• 93min

The country’s most revered shamans rush to Mr. Kang’s house to cure his eldest son’s life-threatening illness. Among them, Okhwa, who has extraordinary spiritual powers, discovers a gourd buried in the village. She explains that t...

• ISDAP Awards at Venice Film Festival

Wide Angle

• United States
• 2016
• 77min

Special Screening on Pixar Short Films presents collection of 16 short films produced by Pixar. From their first short film The Adventures of Andre & Wally B (1984) to Lava (2015), the special screening will offer a great opportun...

Special Programs in Focus

• Colombia,Argentina
• 2016
• 110min

Blood and Rain, Jorge Navas’ debut film, is a stylized film noir set on the dark streets of Bogota. Noir seems to fit surprising well into Colombian reality, as the genre has been prominent in modern Colombian films. The film begi...

• Venice Film Festival (Venice Days), 2009

World Cinema

• France
• 2016
• 105min

Sonia, 17-year-old, almost committed the unlikable to “guarantee” a spot in heaven to her family. Melanie, 16, lives with her mother, loves to go to school and hang out with her friends, plays the cello and wants to make the world...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan,France
• 2016
• 118min

Toshio runs a blacksmith’s workshop and lives with his wife Akie and little daughter Hotaru, but he is strangely indifferent to his family. His old friend Yashaka visits him after he is released from prison and Toshio lets him sta...

• Cannes Film Festival (Jury Prize - Un Certain Regard)

New Currents

• Taiwan
• 2016
• 95min

The debut feature film by Chu Hsien-Che, who made several documentaries, White Ant is a psychological drama that tells a story about sexual fetishism. Bai Yide is a young man living alone. He works at a bookstore and derives sexua...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Nepal,United States,Qatar,Netherlands
• 2016
• 89min

When his father dies, former anti-regime partisan Chandra must travel to his remote mountain village after nearly a decade away. Little Pooja is anxiously awaiting to see the man she thinks is her father for the first time. But sh...

• Venice Film Festival (Orizzonti)