New Currents

• Kazakhstan
• 2015
• 81min

Walnut Tree is film about a wedding that introduces, with compassion, warmth, and laughter, the everyday lives of people living in a small village in Kazakhstan. The wedding ceremony is not at all a small or trivial event, but a f...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong,China,Singapore
• 2015
• 104min

Set in a hotel room and spanning several decades, Eric KHOO’s most recent film recounts episodic tales of love, life, and desire for a multicultural cast of characters who make love, fight, fall into despair, and experience fear, ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2015
• 90min

It’s broad daylight in a shantytown and a man witnesses a woman being murdered by masked men on the rooftop of a nearby building. He tries to surreptitiously take a photo the event but is seen. He runs away and hides in his studio...

• 2015 ACF Post-Production Fund

Special Programs in Focus

• France
• 2015
• 115min

Oscar’s day is filled with going back and forth between several lives. He is at the top of his industry, an assassin, a beggar and a monster and simultaneously a loving husband and father. He is accompanied only by Celine, his lim...

Flash Forward

• Czech Republic,SlovakRepublic
• 2015
• 81min

In rural Czech Republic, Vlasta is a caregiver for the sick. After walking long distances every day, carrying a heavy nurse’s bag, she comes home where she lives with her husband Lada. But no one takes care of Vlasta. After gettin...

A Window on Asian Cinema

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

Two ebullient recruits, Lee Seung and Kei-kei, join Jones & Sunn, an immensely successful ad agency in Hong Kong. Located in a transparent, jewel-like office, the company is going public soon, and its chairman, Ho Chung-ping?whose...

Flash Forward

• Canada
• 2015
• 102min

A story about the power of belief, The Devout follows Darryl Eckford during trying times: his 4-year-old daughter, Abigail, has terminal cancer with weeks to live. Abigail is obsessed with space, and she talks with extraordinary d...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2015
• 20min

Ahmad is suffering from rear dietary disease which requires a regular diet of fish. And his old brother Ali, 11 years old, attends school and lives his daily life like any other boy. But one day, in despair, Ali feels his parents’...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2015
• 100min

In a tranquil countryside hospital, radiologic technician Yeonwu suffers from a mental disorder, the result of a childhood trauma in which he witnessed his younger brother die in a car accident. Wonhee, the hospital’s newest nurse...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2015
• 109min

Police begin an investigation into patient drug overdoses and the suicide of a doctor at the hospital where Xuehui works. The incidents begin after the hospital director and management, blinded by greed, are bribed by a pharmaceut...