A Window on Asian Cinema

• India,France
• 2015
• 103min

Devi spends the night in a hotel with his college friend Piyush, but is discovered and arrested by the police. When the police threaten Piyush’s father with telling everyone what she′s done, the father, a Sanskrit professor, start...

• Fipresci Prize at Un Certain Regard, Cannes

Wide Angle

• Thailand
• 2015
• 79min

“We knew that such films existed but we had never watched them. Arthouse films of the 1990s were like ghosts to us.” This is what the protagonists in this documentary say about a man who influenced Thai art-house films and cinephi...

• 2014 APM Project

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan,Hong Kong,China
• 2015
• 119min

Brother and sister Nan and Mei have grown up together on beautiful Green Island off the western coast of Taiwan, listening to their mother’s bedtime tales of magical mermaids. But after their mother and father divorce, Mei moves t...

Wide Angle

• China
• 2015
• 83min

A number of recent documentary films have grappled with the issue of migrant workers in China. The interest in such a topic may be because these lower-class workers are still victims of discrimination and prejudice despite their s...

• 2012 AND Dongseo Asia Fund

Wide Angle

• China
• 2015
• 154min

Look Love closely follows the lives of two families living in completely different environments in order to show the gap in education and in region, the biggest social issue in present day China. As anthropological research, it ob...

• 2012 AND BIFF Supporter's Fund

World Cinema

• France
• 2015
• 105min

Madeleine is determined to keep her family free from the burden of unnecessarily prolonging her life. But such a notion comes as a shock to her daughter, Dianne, and son, Pierre. Madeleine’s stubbornness to maintain her dignity ca...

Midnight Passion

• France
• 2015
• 88min

Shot a mere few months before the Charlie Hebdo Shooting of January 2015, Inside the Cell’s story line bears close resemblance to what happened in reality. The plot follows Sam, a journalist who infiltrates the underground hardcor...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2015
• 105min

Chiusui becomes brokenhearted when his first love, Xiao Man, dumps him. However, things don’t remain bad for too long. He is admitted to medical school, quickly makes new friends, and even starts seeing someone, Bai Lu. But then C...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2015
• 84min

Lifelong fisherman Gomchi and his family live on an island off the west coast of Korea. A ship-owner rules over the islanders like a king. When Gomchi lands a big catch of fish, the shipowner keeps Gomchi′s share, claiming it as r...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2015
• 110min

In a place where languor and emptiness hover more ominously than death, a man, unwilling to part with his married daughter after the death of his wife, takes drastic measures to keep her by his side. With difficulty, the daughter ...