Wide Angle
Life on the BorderThe documentary with 8 episodes lends the director’s chair to 8 children living in refugee camps in Kobane and Shengal, after IS attacked their homes. In search of a medium to share their agony and suffering, the children embrace ...
Korean Cinema Today
Ode to My FatherOde to My Father was a box office smash with over 10 million cinema admissions in 2015. As a child, Deoksu experiences and lives through the Korean War. His parents take a boat heading south, but he is separated from his father at...
Flash Forward
FlockingJennifer accuses her classmate Alexander of sexual assault, but the small village community they live in believes she is lying, and so she is isolated at school and in village alike. Evidence and court decisions mean nothing where...
New Currents
Go HomeA film about a woman who must struggle against the precariousness of her own memories. Nada, who lives in France, returns home to Lebanon. Her grandfather has been murdered by people in the village, and she thinks his body is buri...
World Cinema
The Weather InsideDorothea, a German woman working for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, is on assignment in a troubled Arab region looking for potential female college students among local refugees who are qualified to enter universities in E...
A Window on Asian Cinema
GuiltyDelhi, India. 2008. A girl, Aarushi Talwar, is found murdered in her bedroom. Her parents, who were in the next room when it happened, claim that they didn’t hear anything. The police names the servant, Noida, as a suspect but he ...
Special Programs in Focus
Just for LaughsGaspard is a sports photographer. Alice is a successful lawyer. Nicolas is, for lack of a better word, an unemployed househusband. Gaspard and Alice are lovers, and Alice is married to Nicolas. This is the love triangle that ancho...
Wide Angle
Where Mermaids GoYujin, a pharmacist, receives news that her mother has been in a diving accident at sea, and, after hurrying to Jeju Island, discovers that the coastguard has been unable to find her. In a magical twist, Yujin′s mother returns as ...
Wide Angle
Still and AllStill and All is a story about the souls living beneath the Yeongdo Bridge in Busan. Yeongdo and its bridge offer a historical space with lingering traces from the Japanese colonial era to the Korean War. The people under Yeongdo ...
Wide Angle
Grozny BluesIn the war-torn Chechen capital Grozny, the citizens spend days in freedom-less agony and sorrow in the bleak city, twice burnt down by consecutive wars. After Ramzan was made president with Putinian Russia’s support, life in Chec...