A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2014
• 70min

Daughter..Mother..Daughteris a colorful piece by the cinematic poet Panahbarkhoda Rezaee. Three women are living stagnant lives in the beautiful countryside. Fully grown-up but handicapped, the daughter has to lie in bed all day w...

Flash Forward

• United States
• 2014
• 99min

Richie is an introverted guy. He works at a bar cleaning toilet and has no friends. His life is going nowhere and he has decided he has had enough with life. He is attempting to end it all, but as he slit his wrists and waits for ...

• Audience Award at SXSW

Flash Forward

• Switzerland,Belgium
• 2014
• 84min

Twelve-year-old Kevin, raised by a single mother, goes to the hospital regularly for aquatic therapy in an effort to lose weight, but has no luck. Despite being the target of abuse by his fellow students, he is unable to resist fa...

• Candidate for BUSAN Bank Award

Midnight Passion

• Korea
• 2014
• 86min

Cheonglok, a club tout, is an internet broadcast jocky. He is trying to perform a threesome sex live on mobile with his friend Seonhong. Jaju who had agreed to participate in their broadcast changes her mind at the last minute. An...

World Cinema

• Russia
• 2014
• 141min

Kolia runs a motor shop in a small town near the Barents Sea, in North Russia. To his shock, he discovers one day that his land is to be sanctioned for the purpose of “community development”. Hidden beneath the surface is the secr...

• Best Screenplay at Cannes Film Festival

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2014
• 128min

Director Bong Joon Ho and Cinematographer Hong Kyung-pyo made a black-and-white version of Mother, which premiered in 2009. Hong came up with the idea of making a black-and-white version of it while filming Snowpiercer(2013). Bong...

Flash Forward

• Canada
• 2014
• 96min

Sitting on the Edge of Marlene is told through the eyes of sixteen year old Sammie. Sammie attends welfare-sponsored after-school Jesus Camp while her alcoholic mother Marlene goes on crime sprees. Mother and daughter share a roma...

• Candidate for BUSAN Bank Award

Open Cinema

• India
• 2014
• 117min

Emerging from a rural village in the north of India, Mary Kom is India’s first female boxer and a sports star who won a bronze medal in an Olympic boxing match. The young Mary grows competing against boys, and happens to enter the...

New Currents

• Philippines
• 2014
• 116min

A bittersweet story about a daughter who comes to understand and forgive her father after his death. Imelda runs a garment business, and one day hears about the lonely death of her father. As she prepares for the funeral she refle...

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2014
• 138min

In a fictional Canada, where a new law allows distressed parents to abandon troubles children to the hospital system, Die Despres, a feisty widow, tries to cope with Steve, her wild yet charming ADHD son. While they both try to ma...

• Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival