Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 2015
• 90min

It all started from a magazine article. In 1989, Abbas Kiarostami read an article in an Iranian magazine called Sorush. It was about a guy who impersonated Mohsen Makhmalbaf and tried to extort his film production costs from a mid...

World Cinema

• Poland
• 2015
• 96min

Middle-aged Edward is numb to everything in his life. He is cold to his wife, doesn’t care about his daughter, and his father is just someone who annoys him. One day, he has an accident and nearly dies. Luckily surviving, his atti...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2015
• 123min

Tharlo is a shepherd in a remote Tibetan village, his long ponytail so well known among the villagers that they have given him the nickname “braided hair.” Needing an identification card, Tharlo heads to the village center to get ...

• Orizzonti at Venice International Film Festival

Wide Angle

• China
• 2015
• 28min

A former village head old Wang is holding a funeral for his wife who’s just passed away. He wants his son to run for the next village head, but burying his wife’s body instead of burning it could somehow leads people on to gossip....

Flash Forward

• France,BurkinaFaso
• 2015
• 102min

In an unspecified African country, idealistic lawyer Emma decides to defend a war criminal allegedly responsible for killing masses of people. The commander of the rebel forces?who claims to have been a child solider?is clearly ps...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2015
• 82min

Acclaimed Iranian film director Jafar Panahi cruises the streets of Tehran in a taxi. Having been forbidden to produce films for the next 20 years and on house arrest for propagating an anti-Islamic message to the world, the sheer...

• Golden Bear (Best Film) at Berlin Film Festival

World Cinema

• United States
• 2015
• 87min

It's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn't been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the working girl and her best friend, Alexandra, embark on a missio...

World Cinema

• France,UK
• 2015
• 171min

Tess is a 1979 romance film directed by Roman Polanski, an adaptation of Thomas Hardy′s 1891 novel Tess of the d′Urbervilles. During the Victorian period, it tells the story of a strong-willed, young peasant girl (played by Nastas...

World Cinema

• Spain
• 2015
• 109min

Two childhood friends meet after years apart. The film begins with Thomas arriving from Canada to see Julian. They spend a few unforgettable days together, laughing, reminiscing, and weeping over the heavy toll of terminal cancer....

Wide Angle

• United States,Korea,UK
• 2015
• 89min

In February 2013, Anais, a French fashion student living in London, stumbled upon a YouTube video featuring Samantha, an actress in Los Angeles, and was struck by their uncanny resemblance. Upon further research, Anais made a shoc...