Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2015
• 110min

Film director Inseong and scriptwriter Yunju have been seeing each other secretly. Mina, Inseong’s ex-girlfriend, is now living in Japan, so when she decides to come to Korea to gather some news material, she makes contact with hi...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Nepal,France,Germany
• 2015
• 90min

In the remote Nepalese village of Dolpa, Prakash enjoys a life of privilege with his father and his sister. Despite his social status, he attends the same elementary school as his best friend, Kiran, the grandson of the village ch...

• Venice International Film Festival (International Critics′ Week)

New Currents

• Iran,Turkey
• 2015
• 88min

Aseke is a member of a group of young people on a mission to propagate Kurdish culture in Turkey, where doing so is prohibited by law. While taking part in this dangerous underground activity, Aseke meets her untimely death. In an...

World Cinema

• France,Georgia
• 2015
• 117min

Winter Song starts with an absurd scene of an aristocrat with a pipe in his mouth, getting his head cut off during Reign of Terror right after French Revolution. Then the camera jumps to the year 2000 and war between Georgia and R...

Wide Angle

• Italy,France
• 2015
• 90min

The Other Side explores individuals who exist somewhere between a state of illegality and anarchy: a couple trying to get free of drug abuse, young people desperate for work, old people now abandoned, ex-special forces soldiers wh...

• Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard)

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2015
• 99min

Under Japanese rule, there is a girls’ boarding school in the countryside, which has very strict rules and regulations. New student Juran is finding it difficult to adapt to the strange ways of the school, and only Yeondeok among ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2015
• 237min

A Brighter Summer Day was inspired by a true incident, a touchstone from Yang’s youth: the killing of a 14-year-old girl by a male high school student in Taipei on June 15, 1961. Yang frames the film with recitations over the radi...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2015
• 15min

MIN Yong-geun, who made his debut with Re-encounter directed this short film after last year’s Bicycle Thiefwoman receives a phone call that leaves her visibly disturbed. Shortly thereafter, a man who appears to be the woman’s hu...

Wide Angle

• Korea,Belgium
• 2015
• 90min

This work depicts the grotesque reality of Korea. Routine entrance-exam life reflected by individuals like Kim Gihoon, a star lecturer, Hyein, a middle-school honor-student, Hyeonhwa, now studying hard for another year to enter th...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2015
• 30min

The world’s best jade can be found around volatile Hpakant, Myanmar. For many residents of Hpakant, options for a better life are limited, and can mean either leaving home, engaging in drug trafficking or hoping for a windfall wor...