Open Cinema
Collective InventionBakgu, unable to get a decent job, participates a pharmaceutical company’s experiment for money, turns into Fish Man and is detained at their lab. A TV Producer and his girlfriend head over there upon hearing about the Fish Man, h...
Special Programs in Focus
Tokyo StoryWhat do our parents, the people who raised us with the best of intentions, really think of us? And do we really want to know? In Ozu Yasujiro’s tender, breathtaking Tokyo Story, elderly parents Shukichi (played by Ozu regular Ryu ...
Korean Cinema Today
Twenty AgainDirector Mingu goes to Turin, Italy as a jury member for a film festival. He runs into his ex-girlfriend Minha by chance on the plane and greets her cheerily. She, however, treats him like a total stranger. She pretends she has ne...
World Cinema
The DressmakerTilly is beautiful, talented and distinctly unique. Burdened by guilt she returns to her hometown to find her mother, Mad Molly, demented. Tilly is an outsider, accused of murder and turned upon by insular locals. Whilst there is ...
World Cinema
DheepanEscaping the Sri Lankan Civil War, a couple and a girl?all complete strangers?seek refuge in France. Posing as a family, they settle outside Paris. Supporting each other like a real family, Dheepan, the father, finds work as a cus...
World Cinema
The Kind WordsThree siblings who discover the identity of their biological father at their mother’s deathbed set off on a quirky journey from Israel through Paris and on to Marseille. The journey is ultimately a return to the past and an explor...
Flash Forward
Road to La PazSebastian is unemployed, finding pleasure only in his old Peugeot. He got married to his girlfriend Jazmin and having no income, he starts a job of a private ride service. One day, a regular customer, Jalil, an old Arab man sugges...
New Currents
Radio SetThis film tells the story of Arunachalam, an old man alienated from his children. All his life, Arunachalam has worked in a cotton mill, and the only happiness he has is listening to music on a radio that was handed down to him by...
Special Programs in Focus
Rashomon*an extract from an original writing for Asian Cinema 100 […] This transcendence is already inscribed in certain aspects of the film itself. The photographic quality of the film tends toward total abstraction: the intricately mot...
World Cinema
Louder than BombsBefore an exhibition celebrating the work of a renowned war photographer, Isabelle’s?who died in a car accident three years earlier?her eldest son returns after a long absence to help his father look after his impulsive, still gri...