Midnight Passion

• United States
• 2015
• 95min

Punk band The Ain′t Rights reach a new nadir of unsuccessful touring when a gig falls through, leaving them broke. To make it up, the organizer offers to set up a new show near to Portland through his cousin David that should put ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2015
• 112min

Based on a true story, it explores the 1978 kidnapping of a child in Busan. When the child is taken, the parents naturally try every possible means to find their daughter. At the request of the despairing couple, Detective Gong Gi...

Midnight Passion

• Japan
• 2015
• 99min

Sara, a young actress seeking to move up in the dog-eat-dog world of acting, is unable to attain the acclaim she feels she deserves. Deciding to break away from the drudgery of TV show bit parts, she auditions for a stage play. Ha...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2015
• 93min

Four friends who just turned twenty take a trip to Pohang for two days and one night, in order to spend time with Sangwu, who is to join the navy the following day. While drinking on the beach, they see a woman being beaten up by ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2015
• 88min

Yahya is falsely accused of murder but is found innocent and returns to his daily life. The staff of the textile factory he works for and his neighbors don’t welcome him. They keep glancing suspiciously at him and use varying degr...

Wide Angle

• Germany,Austria
• 2015
• 80min

“I am going to tell you the story of little knight Trenk, who was so brave and wise that he became famous from the mountains to the sea,” announces the unnamed narrator at the beginning of this timeless tale set in the Middle Ages...

World Cinema

• SouthAfrica,France
• 2015
• 108min

In a small village called "The Endless River" in South Africa, a young woman who works in a restaurant reunites with her husband after four years of his jail term. The couple plans a promising future together. However, when a trag...

• Venice International Film Festival (In Competition)

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iraq
• 2015
• 97min

As it advances across Syria and Iraq, IS, the extremist militant group, poses a huge threat to the people in the region. Ghobadi turns his camera on those in the greatest immediate danger by visiting a Kurdish refugee camp on the ...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2015
• 125min

Adapted from Hwang Sun-won’s novel of the same name, this film looks at the aftermath of the Korean War from an altogether different perspective. Like The General’s Mustache, Trees Stand on Slope also deals with a suspicious death...

Special Programs in Focus

• France
• 2015
• 119min

One time Les Cahiers du Cinema contributor Leos Carax’s ability to bend and sometimes break film conventions while paying homage to them showed early in his career. In Bad Blood, rebellious teen Alex works with his dead father’s c...