Open Cinema

• Italy
• 2015
• 100min

Inside an old country-house in Sicily, Italy, Anna is left alone after her son Giuseppe’s funeral. A young woman, Jeanne, allegedly her son’s sweetheart, arrives. Grief-stricken Anna cannot tell her the truth, as she herself canno...

• Venice International Film Festival (In Competition)

Flash Forward

• Colombia,France,Spain
• 2015
• 97min

Alfonso is an old farmer who has returned home to tend to his son, who is gravely ill. He rediscovers his old house, where the woman who was once his wife still lives, with his daughter-in-law and grandson. The landscape that awai...

• Cannes Film Festival (Critics′ Week)

World Cinema

• UK,Greece,Ireland
• 2015
• 118min

The Lobster begins with a blind woman reminiscing about the past. Her tale is of an antiutopian world in which people without romantic partners are arrested and detained for forty-five days in a place called The Hotel; those who f...

• Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival

Midnight Passion

• United States
• 2015
• 94min

Life appears normal for two siblings until they discover that Grandma and Grandpa's behavior has suddenly become deeply disturbing after being left to stay at their grandparents' house while their mother is on vacation. They are w...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• UK,Palestine,Qatar,Netherlands,United Arab Emirates
• 2015
• 100min

In recent years, competitive audition shows on TV have been all the rage around the world. In the Middle East, Arab Idol, which in 2013 took place in Cairo, Egypt, became one of the region’s most popular television programs. This ...

Wide Angle

• United States
• 2015
• 56min

Produced at a time when the Walt Disney Studio was facing financial difficulties and released to great critical and audience acclaim in October 1941, when America was on the brink of entering World War II, Dumbo remains today one ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2015
• 93min

Internationally acclaimed Filipino director Brillante Medoza presents a new film that deals with the aftermath of the hurricane Haiyan, which caused over 10,000 casualties in Tacloban in 2013. As the film centers on contemporary c...

• Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard)

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2015
• 64min

This film depicts the journey of a Mexican, Roberto, resident in China. On his way to renew his visa, Roberto meets an African at a railway station between China and Hong Kong. “Why is an African in China?” soon changes into a ref...

• 2013 AND Youngsan Fund

Special Programs in Focus

• France
• 2015
• 92min

A story of passion, Jacques Demy’s 1982 musical unfolds in 1955 Nantes against the backdrop of a shipyard strike. Francois, a striking metalworker, is engaged to Violette when he meets and falls in love with Edith, a married woman...

World Cinema

• UK
• 2015
• 113min

Seventeen year old orphan, Jamie Harrison is a long-term resident at Alpha House, a shabby council run assessment centre in south west London. As the film opens, Jamie, along with best friend Leanne Dixon is involved in looting du...