Gala Presentation

• Taiwan,China,Hong Kong,China,France
• 2015
• 104min

Hou Hsiao-Hsien has talked about making a martial-arts film for at least a decade, but we all knew that he wouldn’t come up with anything in the King Hu or Lau Kar-Leung traditions. That doesn’t prevent his new film ? eight years ...

• Cannes Film Festival (In Competition - Award for Best Director)

Wide Angle

• India
• 2015
• 85min

A. R. Rahman is India’s leading music composer who has worked for so many Bollywood films such as Dil se, Lagaan: Once Upon A Time In India, and since the early 1990s. His musical work for Slumdog Millionaire earned him the Acade...

Special Programs in Focus

• China
• 2015
• 93min

In China’s official film history, Fei Mu is labeled as an ideologically irresolute petit bourgeois artist, because he never joined the Leftist filmmakers camp. Fei Mu’s final work Spring in a Small Town was criticized as “spreadin...

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2015
• 90min

Teenager Adam is spending his summer vacation with his parents on rugged Lake Superior. His dull routine is shattered when he befriends Riley and Nate, smart aleck cousins who pass their ample free time with debauchery and reckles...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2015
• 98min

Hailed as a masterpiece of modern Korean cinema, The General’s Mustache could easily lay claim to greatness just for the short animation by artist Shin Dong-hun that’s contained within it. Written by Kim Seung-ok and directed by L...

Wide Angle

• United States
• 2015
• 190min

Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City is one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse communities in the United States and the world. There are immigrants from every country in South America, Mexico, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Af...

• Venice International Film Festival

Open Cinema

• India
• 2015
• 137min

Shivudu, a salubrious young man with a long-held secret, spots a mask protruding from a waterfall. Struggling against the stream, he draws closer to it in the hopes of discovering its wearer’s identity. To his surprise, he meets a...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2015
• 22min

On the morning of her first day at a new school, a girl practices different ways to greet her teacher in order to make a good impression. A bundle of nerves, she heads off to school, and, contrary to her expectations, is met with ...

World Cinema

• France
• 2015
• 98min

Jailbird opens with the scene of a woman receiving a physical examination as part of the intake process at a prison. The woman, Mathilde, helped her husband break out of jail, but in a cruel twist of fate finds herself locked up. ...

Opening Film & Closing Film

• India
• 2015
• 110min

Zubaan depicts a young man who searches for the real values in life and his true self. Born to a poor Punjab family, Dilsher moves to the big city in hopes of success. He pays a visit to the corporate head Gurcharan Sikand, who he...