Flash Forward

• Australia
• 2014
• 102min

In 1983, sports-fixated Australia was obsessed with a yacht race in which a corporate raider exhilarated the population by wrapping his desire for sailing glory in the deceptive cloak of patriotism. Meanwhile, in working class Mel...

Midnight Passion

• Australia
• 2014
• 98min

Barry is a talented mechanic and family man whose life is torn apart on the eve of a zombie apocalypse. His sister, Brooke, is kidnapped by a sinister team of gas-mask wearing soldiers & experimented on by a psychotic doctor who u...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2014
• 108min

The film reconstructs the Korean Women’s Labor Movement from 1960 to present day by combining interviews, locations and art. Focusing on Shin Sun-ae, a garment laborer in the Pyounghwa Market, and Kim Jin-sook, who works at Hanjin...

• 2013 AND BIFF Mecenat Fund

Open Cinema

• United States
• 2014
• 105min

First year college student Andrew would do anything to become a famous musician. His commitment is put to the ultimate test when the unrelenting and eccentric band professor Fletcher all but drives him to madness. Fletcher′s extre...

• Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival

World Cinema

• Turkey,Germany,France
• 2014
• 196min

Winter Sleep centers on an egotistic and merciless middle-aged man. Aydin, a former actor, runs a small hotel in central Anatolia. His relationship with his much younger wife Niha is on the rocks and his antagonistic younger siste...

• Palme d′Or at Cannes Film Festival

New Currents

• Iraq
• 2014
• 98min

Director Shakhwan Idrees’ debut film is a black comedy rooted in the Iran-Iraqi conflict. In a small Kurdish village in northern Iraq, Abdulrahman prepares for his nephew Serwan’s wedding. However, the happy day is soured when the...

Wide Angle

• Syria,France
• 2014
• 92min

Syrian director Ossama Mohamed was exiled to France in 2011 and was in tormented by the news of civil unrest in Syria. An online chat with filmmaker Bedirxan about what he would shoot were he still in Homs formed the genesis of th...

Wide Angle

• Brazil,Italy,France
• 2014
• 109min

The life of the world-renowned documentary photographer Sebastiao Salgado is quiet yet dynamic, just like his own photographs. At the height of his career as an international economic analyst he chose to abandon his career in econ...

• Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard)

World Cinema

• Croatia,France,Serbia,Macedonia
• 2014
• 78min

Ivo and Maja, a married couple, live a calm and monotonous life in the suburbs of Zagreb. One day, their only son, Tomica, is brutally beaten by a gang of his teenagers peers. Instantly realizing the false concept of safety, Ivo a...

• Venice Film Festival (Orizzonti)

Midnight Passion

• United States
• 2014
• 80min

Five twenty-something friends travel deep into the Texas Big Thicket for a summer weekend. Brian, his brother Matt, Matt's girlfriend Dora, their friend Todd, and Todd's girlfriend Liz look forward to getting away at a cabin built...