Wide Angle
CartwheelA middle school student, Jung-eun, practices cartwheeling, but it doesn’t go well. She tries even harder in order to show off to a boy she has crush on. (NAM Dong-chul)
Flash Forward
AuroraSofia, a middle-aged professor, is overwhelmed with sorrow after hearing the news that the body of an infant was found in a landfill. As her sorrow grows, she asks the morgue and the police to help her prepare a proper burial for ...
A Window on Asian Cinema
The Sacred ArrowThe director from Tibet, Pema Tseden, presents his latest feature, the winner of the 2014 Shanghai International Film Festival Best Cinematography award. As China’s leading independent filmmaker, Pema Tseden has consistently dealt...
World Cinema
Corn IslandAn island floats on the river between Georgia and the autonomous republic Abkhazia. An old farmer repares to cultivate corn with his teenage granddaughter. One day, an injured soldier drifts onto the island. As the farmer helps th...
A Window on Asian Cinema
GentleThis new mystery-thriller by genre maestro Kiet Le-Van is a modern Vietnamese adaptation of Dostoevsky’s novella ‘A Gentle Creature’. A young and beautiful woman, Linh, commits suicide. As Thien, the now widower husband, sits by L...
Wide Angle
One Armed ManAuthor Horton Foote’s unsettling drama sees an angry former employee confronting a wealthy cotton gin owner demanding the return of the arm he lost to the machinery. Normally pacified with a few dollars, this day’s visit unfolds q...
Wide Angle
We Come as FriendsIn South Sudan, nature remains pristine. From the airplane up in the sky, the sceneries viewed through the camera seem wonderfully peaceful. Yet, this seemingly calm place has been kept busy by ‘friends’ from abroad, such as Europ...
Wide Angle
ParallelThe sounds of blades skating across ice and the shouts of athletes fill an ice rink?the national ice sledge hockey team members. They play on sledges, not on skates, and freely command their sticks atop the ice. Though each athlet...
World Cinema
The DinnerTwo brothers with totally opposing personalities-one a cynic, the other a diplomat-have made a routine of sharing monthly dinners together at a high-class restaurant. The usual conversations about their lives become extremely chal...
Korean Cinema Today
Thread of LiesWorking at a supermarket, a single mother lives with her two daughters. Their ordinary life is crushed when the younger girl kills herself. The surviving sister, Man-ji, meets with her dead sister’s friends to find out why, and th...