A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kyrgyzstan
• 2014
• 178min

In the village, in a small house by the river, an old man lives with his granddaughter. They live a simple life in harmony with the extensive nature. One day, the man’s daughter, living in the city and doing everything in order to...

Midnight Passion

• Japan
• 2014
• 118min

Kanako, a beautiful girl and one of the best students at school, goes missing with all the belongings left behind in her room. Her father Akikazu is now asked by his ex-wife to look for their daughter. He starts a desperate search...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Bangladesh
• 2014
• 97min

Mostofa Farooki has made films following characters who have to make alternative choices in conflicts between inner order and society in films such as Third Person Singular Number(A Window on Asian Cinema, BIFF 2009) and Televisio...

• 2013 APM Project

Opening Film & Closing Film

• Hong Kong,China
• 2014
• 97min

A comedy-melodrama hybrid, this film is a gangster story minus the traditional tragedy. Wong Kam-Kwei, a gang boss on the decline, overseeing bathhouses and karaoke bars, falls for a small restaurant owner, Mei. He begins to help ...

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2014
• 110min

Fourteen-year-old Maria is living with her family, in a fundamentalist Catholic community. Her life seems no different from anyone else’s except for her heart, which belongs only to Jesus. Like other holy children she has been tol...

• Silver Bear (Best Screenplay) at Berlin Film Festival

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2014
• 90min

The Geumcheon District members of the Korea Street Vendors Confederation visit a successful community radio station. Seeing how anyone can participate to further the communication of the local community, they decide to establish t...

Wide Angle

• India
• 2014
• 19min

Where does a young man who left his village as a child to make a living in Bombay, learn to woo a woman? Who teaches him and others who grew up on the streets, about “boy meets girl”? It could be Indian movies. A glimpse into the ...

• Cannes Film Festival (Critics Week)

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2014
• 108min

‘The House of Isaac’ is a place which takes up kids who have nowhere to go. High schooler Youngjae who spent his childhood at this place sponsored by the Catholic church is reluctant to leave although he is too old to stay. He has...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2014
• 95min

Ayoung is a young woman living a less-than-humble life working as an assistant at a dermatology clinic. Although Ayoung barely make ends meet on a miserable salary earned by popping pimples, she has a secret. She dresses up to sho...

Wide Angle

• Singapore,Indonesia,Korea
• 2014
• 90min

Vladimir Todorovic, Mun Jeonghyun, and Daniel Rudi Haryanto - film directors from Serbia, South Korea, and Indonesia, respectively - met at an international film festival and decided to make a movie about those who stand at a bord...

• 2012 AND DMA Fund