Special Programs in Focus

• Germany,Georgia
• 2014
• 58min

Without particular cinematic devices or intervention, this documentary grabbed considerable attention by gazing at an old building to look into the frozen era. Once called “Bakhmaro,” this former hotel building features the styles...

Wide Angle

• Sweden,Taiwan
• 2014
• 65min

Bamse and the City of Thieves is the first feature adaptation based on the Swedish cartoon series, Bamse ? The World′s Strongest Bear, which has enjoyed huge popularity for nearly half a century. Rune Andreasson, often called "the...

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

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2014
• 20min

A family plans to move as the landlord raises their rent. The wife, who has been annoyed by her husband’s immature attitude, goes mad when something unexpected happens. (NAM Dong-chul)

World Cinema

• Cuba
• 2014
• 108min

Chala is a troublemaker. Carmela, his nearly retired teacher, is the only person who knows that Chala is a mature and strong boy serving as the breadwinner for her alcoholic mother. One day, Chala is involved in an illegal dog fig...

Special Programs in Focus

• Turkey
• 2014
• 89min

An artist and communist in his 70s, a lawyer who cherishes snails, a tired medical doctor, and a lonely businesswoman are old friends and regulars at the Black & White bar run by Faruk. When they hear that the bar will soon be shu...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China,Hong Kong,China
• 2014
• 109min

The crime thriller that won the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival Golden Bear and Silver Bear for Best Actor(for Liao Fan), Black Coal, Thin Ice begins in the winter of 1999 in a coalmining village located on the depressing ...

• Berlin Film Festival - Golden Bear for Best Film

World Cinema

• Italy
• 2014
• 109min

The youngest of an organized crime family, Luigi is a hotheaded international drug dealer whose second brother, Rocco, looks like a middle class businessman from Milan. One day, a mistake made by the son of the eldest brother, now...

• Venice Film Festival (In Competition)

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2014
• 107min

Kwon-ho and his wife Duk-Kyung hold different ideologies but work together in the independence movement against Japan. After barely surviving a battle, they are eparated, each taking one of their twin sons, Dae-il and Han-il. Year...

World Cinema

• United States
• 2014
• 166min

Filmed over 12 years with the same cast, Richard Linklater's Boyhood is a groundbreaking story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a child named Mason who literally grows up on screen before our eyes. Starring Ethan Hawke an...

• Silver Bear (Best Director) at Berlin Film Festival