Wide Angle

• Chile,Mexico
• 2015
• 98min

35 years after the coup d’etat that overthrew her grandfather, Salvador Allende, Marcia wishes to change the family custom of not speaking about him and their tragic history. She believes it is time to recover the family memories ...

• Cannes Film Festival (Directors′ Fortnight)

World Cinema

• Romania,Bulgaria,Czech Republic
• 2015
• 105min

In 19th century Romania, Costandin, a policeman of the time, and his son Ionita travel through the south of the country in search of a fugitive Gypsy slave. Costandin is a charismatic mixture between a funny Stalin and a somewhat ...

• Silver Bear (Best Director) at Berlin Film Festival

Special Programs in Focus

• India
• 2015
• 110min

*an extract from an original writing for Asian Cinema 100 Sixty years after its 1955 premiere, the charm of Satyajit Ray’s The Apu Trilogy ? Pather Panchali (1955), Aparajito (1956), and Apur Sansar (1959) ? endures. The films...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2015
• 23min

A young high school girl tells her father, a pastor, about her pregnancy, and he begins to treat her as if she is the Virgin Mary. Soon, members of her father’s church visit her, pleading for mercy and forgiveness for their sins.

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2015
• 109min

Anna is an independent photojournalist investigating a human trafficking and child prostitution network in Asia. On her journey to the root of all evil, she meets Sam, a fixer who will intervene decisively in her destiny. Sam is a...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2015
• 78min

When a friend of theirs passes away, three septuagenarian friends start to worry about their own deaths. In Hinduism, it is very important for the children of the deceased to perform final rites for their parents, but the three me...

• 2013 ACF Script Development Fund

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2015
• 120min

In 2009 the High Court of Delhi reached the verdict that homosexuality wasn’t a crime. However, in 2013, the Supreme Court of India overturned this decision. Based on a true story, Aligarh is a film that explores India’s anachroni...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2015
• 139min

Under Japanese occupation in 1933, Joseon’s provisional government plans to assassinate Kawaguchi Mamoru, the Japanese occupation force’s commander in Korea, and pro-Japanese collaborator Gang Ingook. Yeom Seokjin, by Kim Gu’s ord...

Wide Angle

• China,France,United States
• 2015
• 106min

A Young Patriot documents four years in the life of Zhao, a post-90s Chinese idealist and ardent patriot. The film begins with 19-year-old Zhao participating in a massive protest related to the dispute between China and Japan over...

• 2013 AND Busan Bank Fund

Flash Forward

• Ethiopia,France,Germany
• 2015
• 94min

An Ethiopian boy, Ephraim, lives off his distant relative, who his dad sent him to after a terrible drought left the family with no food. Ephraim always has a lamb with him; it is his cherished and only friend. Ephraim is scolded ...

• Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard)