A Window on Asian Cinema

• Malaysia,Netherlands,Switzerland
• 2014
• 87min

A melancholic film set in a desolate seaside village reflects upon the idea of love and regret. A policeman, Tan, discovers that his wife and an old friend, Lai, have fled the village together, leaving him with Lai’s daughter Sand...

World Cinema

• Argentina,Denmark,Mexico,United States
• 2014
• 110min

The film is set in Patagonia, a remote corner of Argentina, near the end of the 19th century. At that time, the so-called ‘Conquest of the Desert’, a violent campaign designed to clean the aboriginal took place. The Danish general...

• FIPRESCI Prize at Un Certain Regard, Cannes Film Festival

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2014
• 116min

Representing films labeled Asian Extreme, Japanese director Sono Sion’s new film is based on the popular manga series Tokyo Tribe 2 by Inoue Santa. Set in a futuristic, alternate Tokyo, the film is about the brutal and violent ter...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2014
• 119min

Young-nam is newly appointed as the head of a police substation in a rural village. She acquaints herself with a young girl named Dohee. Bullied by her family and friends, Young-nam tries to protect Dohee. Living with her “father ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kurd,Germany
• 2014
• 97min

After deciding to make a film about the genocide of 182,000 Kurdish people by Iraq in 1988, Hussein and Alan face obstacles in the project from the beginning. Their lead actress, a former teacher, comes attached with an interferin...

• 2011 APM Project

Wide Angle

• Italy,Singapore
• 2014
• 88min

Brillante Mendoza, Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, Eric Khoo and Garin Nugroho are the representative directors that lead the new wave cinema in Southeast Asia. Each of them was recognized by the global film circuit for different styles and i...

Wide Angle

• Poland
• 2014
• 21min

It is the longest day of the year. On a beach, a white bear, a horse and a spy disguised as a mole are watching a gay couple. Loosely inspired by Waiting for Godot, Molehill moves between dream and reality, with magnificent repeti...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2014
• 114min

The life of runaway girls is exposed to the threats of prostitution or violent situations during the quest to find a place to stay overnight like Eunsoo and Soohyang. They save Hadam another girl being abused by a man on the stree...

• 2014 ACF Post-production Fund

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong,China,China
• 2014
• 130min

Based on a true story, Dearest is about the sensitivity, complexity and indelible pain of child abduction. In July 2009, Tian Wenjun, the owner of a small Internet cafe in Shenzhen, finds his three-year-old boy Pengpeng missing. H...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Pakistan,United States,Norway
• 2014
• 93min

A drama, a suspense thriller and adventure film about the exploitation of children through child marriage. It is beyond imagination the type of violence women in Pakistan experience, especially in what is known as “honor killings,...