A Window on Asian Cinema

• China,Korea
• 2015
• 110min

Chang Tzu, a Chinese teacher living in Korea, travels to Jeju Island with his brother Papa and two friends. After witnessing a car accident on their way, they try to take the unconscious victim, Ji-yun, to a hospital, but are pull...

World Cinema

• Australia
• 2015
• 96min

In the last days of a dying logging town, Christian returns to his family home for his father Henry’s wedding. While home, Christian reconnects with his childhood friend Oliver, who has stayed in town working at Henry’s timber mil...

• Venice International Film Festival (Closing Film at Venice Days)

Special Programs in Focus

• France
• 2015
• 180min

Twenty-nine-year-old Paul is a reluctant teacher, aspiring doctoral candidate and would-be archaeologist living a half-life. Living with a cousin and romantically attached to Esther for a decade, Paul finally reaches a breaking po...

Open Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2015
• 134min

Our Times is a refreshing teenage romcom from Taiwan. Its narrative revolves around Truly, an ordinary high school girl who is secretly in love with Ouyang, the school heartthrob. In an attempt to win his heart, she befriends the ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2015
• 28min

An old man spends everyday exactly the same way. A walk in the park, a cup of coffee, then back to the room where he lives alone. In order to make a living, he cleans a public bath, but one day he has an accident.

Special Programs in Focus

• France
• 2015
• 105min

At a boarding school in the lakeside town of Heiligenstadt, introverted Vincent keeps to himself and misses his mother. His only enjoyment is looking after deer at the school. Vincent sees Marianne, a girl accompanying an old man ...

World Cinema

• Italy,France,Switzerland
• 2015
• 107min

A convent in Bobbio, Italy, serves as the setting for the two stories that unfold in this haunting and uniquely crafted film. In the first, set in the 17th century, Federico, a young man-at-arms, attempts to restore his family’s h...

• Venice International Film Festival (In Competition)

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2015
• 95min

Gangjae is a middle-aged family man living with a daughter, a high school senior, and a trustworthy and supportive wife. He tells his wife that he will marry her again in the next life, but he once had a secret passion she knows n...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2015
• 105min

An overcast sky over a northern Iranian city on the Caspian Sea symbolizes the life of Nahid, a recent divorcee and single mother. Struggling through life with her adolescent son, she finds a new love. But she can not accept the m...

• Promizing Future Prize Ex-aequo of Un Certain Regard, Cannes

Special Programs in Focus

• France
• 2015
• 102min

Claude Lelouch’s classic 1966 romance is as engaging and moving today as it was upon release. When a widow and a widower meet one Sunday evening at their children’s boarding school, it is the beginning of a cautious relationship i...