Wide Angle

• China,Korea
• 2015
• 112min

This documentary is a record of the memories and lives of the few surviving Japanese “comfort women” living in China. Of the 200,000 victims taken as comfort women by the Japanese army during World War II, only 22 remain in Mainla...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Palestine,France,Jordan,Lebanon,United Arab Emirates,Qatar
• 2015
• 103min

The first feature length fiction film by Palestinian documentary filmmaker Mai Masri, 3,000 Nights vividly captures the reality of the lives of Palestinian women imprisoned in an Israeli prison and of the children born there. Lay...

World Cinema

• United States
• 2015
• 127min

Mario, who lives a happy life with his family, works at a mine in Chile’s Atacama Desert, excavating for copper and gold. On a day shift around lunchtime, he and his 32 fellow miners feel something strange while they are working 7...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Singapore
• 2015
• 99min

There is funny consistency in the films of Singaporean filmmaker Royston Tan: All of the titles of his films have numbers in them. 3688’s title represents the number given to Xia Fei Fei as a participant on a talent show. In her l...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2015
• 116min

Gwang-soo, a promising teenaged swimmer, skips training regularly because he is overconfident of his ability. His violent coach gives up on him and Gwang-soo quit swimming. Years later, Gwang-soo works as a swimming instructor. El...

Special Programs in Focus

• Japan
• 2015
• 207min

It is likely that Kurosawa Akira’s Seven Samurai (1954) is the most frequently remade film in all of world cinema. Though certainly the same director’s Rashomon (1951) is a serious candidate for that unique distinction, the idea o...

Flash Forward

• Mexico
• 2015
• 95min

The Thin Yellow Line is the journey of five men who are hired to paint the median line of a road that connects two towns in Mexico. On board of an old truck, they do the job: more than 200km of pavement and yellow paint that they ...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2015
• 26min

Filipina Nia, working in Taiwan, has carefully cultivated a boundary between her and her employers, keeping to herself?much to the displeasure of her boss. The resulting tension is the basis for this resonant, recognizable film ab...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2015
• 22min

A father who leads a lackluster life suddenly becomes excited about the prospect of reunions for families separated by the Korean War. To the son, having such an energetic father is just as uncomfortable as his usual ho-hum father...

World Cinema

• France
• 2015
• 85min

Experienced and skilled armed robber Yanis is an intelligent and meticulous leader whose identity still eludes the police. Hijacking armored trucks with his team?Frank, Nasser, and Amine?is his specialty. A new member, fresh out o...