World Cinema

• Hungary
• 2015
• 107min

At the Auschwitz crematoriums, there was a special group called the Sonderkommando, prisoners force to take care of the bodies. Hungarian Jewish prisoner Saul, a member of the Sonderkommando, finds a boy who he takes to be his son...

• Grand Prix at Cannes Film Festival

Midnight Passion

• Canada
• 2015
• 88min

Husband and wife, Will and Dawn, are in financial crisis after learning the job Will was counting on to salvage their financial future has disappeared in the midst of market collapse. They set out to drive home on the winter highw...

Opening Film & Closing Film

• China,United States
• 2015
• 117min

In a remote mountain village, a recent immigrant La Hong dies after stepping on explosives that young villager Han Chong set-up to catch a badger. The elders of the village force Han Chong to care for La Hong’s mute wife Hong Xia ...

Gala Presentation

• China,Japan,France
• 2015
• 126min

The Chinese title of Jia Zhangke’s wonderful film, Shan He Gu Ren, is a saying that’s hard to translate. In essence, it compares unchanging, age-old landscapes with the instabilities of human lives. The film is in three chapters, ...

• Cannes Film Festival (In Competition)

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2015
• 92min

A masterpiece of 1960s Korean horror, A Bloodthirsty Killer helped to establish many of the motifs that would appear in subsequent films of the genre, including ghosts with no reflections, a portrait of a vindictive woman, and a c...

Flash Forward

• Lithuania,France,Netherlands
• 2015
• 88min

17-year old Sangaile dreams of becoming a light aircraft pilot but she cannot overcome her fear of heights. Living a quiet life with her family, she befriends a neighbor, the cheerful Auste. Since then, Sangail has opened her mind...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2015
• 127min

At Sanguiwon, where the clothes for Joseon era royalty are made, Dolseok, has worked for 30 years doing this, and endeavors to raise his social status to yangban?part of the ruling class?in six months’ time. Gongjin is sent to the...

Wide Angle

• Iran,Canada,Korea
• 2015
• 129min

Shahrzaad’s Tale tells us a story of a beautiful, strong and brilliant artist. Before the Iranian Revolution, Shahrzaad was a popular actress who performed in more than 50 movies, a director who made the first feature film as a wo...

• 2012 AND Dongseo Asia Fund

New Currents

• Japan
• 2015
• 125min

West North West depicts the story of young people who have lost a sense of direction in their lives. For them, “empathy” is more important than “understanding.” The film mostly revolves around a lesbian couple, Kei and Ai. Kei wor...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2015
• 140min

Three Stories of Love alternates back and forth between the accounts of three unrelated characters including a man mourning his wife who, having been brutally murdered, has been dead for three years; a housewife who dreams of a ro...