Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2014
• 100min

People tend to be intentionally provocative or extremely argumentative over petty matters on twitter. A woman who challenges men becomes targeted as public enemy. Young men expose her identity and even show up on her doorstep. But...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2014
• 102min

Ebrahim and his wife Fakhrosadat’s live a quiet, frugal life in a dilapidated house with their youngest son Reza, a war veteran who recently returned home from the hospital. One day, the gas from a leaking pipe causes the three of...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Myanmar,Czech Republic
• 2014
• 93min

After co-directing the documentary film Nargis:When Time Stopped Breathing, which chronicled the disastrous impact of cyclone Nargis after it hit Myanmar and caused about 140,000 deaths, director The Maw Naing was able to get supp...

Special Programs in Focus

• Georgia
• 2014
• 73min

Susa works as a messenger boy for his mother’s illegal vodka trade, and everyone he meets during his delivery trips are drinkers and neighborhood bullies. The only way to escape from this monotonous life is to look into his kaleid...

Open Cinema

• China
• 2014
• 111min

Lu Yang follows up his 2010 Busan International Film Festival Audience Award-winning My Spectacular Theatre with this martial adventure. Set during the early years of the Ming Dynasty’s last Emperor Chongzhen’s reign, Brotherhood ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand
• 2014
• 85min

This film traces the journey of two Thai boys from disparate backgrounds on their search for answers in religion. Seven-year-old reality show participant William becomes an overnight star and then continues to pursue his dream of ...

• 2014 ACF Post Production Fund

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Nepal
• 2014
• 110min

The power in a small rural Nepalese village with a strong maternal tradition revolves around Chinmaya. The entire village is busy preparing for wedding of her son when the groom’s ex-lover, Suntali, shows up with a mean-looking ma...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2014
• 120min

On March 11, 2011, a great earthquake and tsunami rocked the Pacific coast along the northeastern region of Japan. This resulted in a terrible disaster that left 1,800 dead and the complete destruction of Fukushima. Shinozaki Mako...

Wide Angle

• Malaysia
• 2014
• 19min

Irwan secretly leaves his motorcycle gang every night to watch Xing, a beautiful stage performer from China. He offers his heart and declares he will never leave her. Meanwhile, being trapped, lonely and unable to assimilate into ...

Wide Angle

• Cambodia,France
• 2014
• 66min

This documentary exposes Cambodia’s prevalent human trafficking system, a large network in which huge numbers of young Cambodian women are sold as slaves to various countries such as Malaysia, Taiwan and Thailand. “Storm makers” r...

• 2013 AND BIFF Supporters Fund