World Cinema

• UK,France,Ireland,Romania
• 2014
• 115min

1952. Bill Rohan is 18, dreaming his life away at the family’s riverside home, waiting to be called up for two years’ conscription in the Army. He swims each morning and yearns for a pretty girl who cycles past on the towpath acro...

• Cannes Film Festival (Directors′ Fortnight)

World Cinema

• Australia
• 2014
• 90min

You can’t trust a woman who is willing to sleep with a man who makes his living by putting his fingers into people’s mouths. You can’t trust a man who deals drugs and runs a beachside bar. You can’t trust a crooked cop in a small ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,Japan
• 2014
• 99min

Based on Kang Full’s webtoon of the same title, this film unravels the mystery behind a series of suicides at a high school in Seoul. Park Ja-gi, a teacher at this school whose mother is a shaman, keeps rejecting mysticism, but he...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2014
• 109min

A documentary exploring the international rise of the Taiwanese New Wave represented by the likes of Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang and its impact on world cinema. The film weaves interviews with cinema professionals who took the...

• Venice Film Festival (Venice Classic)

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan,Indonesia,Thailand,United States
• 2014
• 97min

Chihiro is always thinking about death, worrying all those around him. He struggles as his desire to live wanes overtime. Chihiro and his wife, Yuri, decide to go on a trip to see his sister Kumi’s home in Bali, and Yuri hopes thi...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2014
• 81min

After starting his career with short films, photography, and documentaries, this is Saman Salur’s fifth feature film. In a secluded Iranian mountain village, Hassan lives with Ghader in a burnt-out and deserted train compartment. ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kyrgyzstan,Germany
• 2014
• 75min

In Kyrgyzstan of the former Soviet Union during the 1960s a taxi is parked in front of a public phone booth. It is late at night with only a few people seeking to use the phone booth. The taxi stubbornly waits to fill up with four...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2014
• 92min

The film begins on the streets of Teheran shot from a taxi. Then follows a series of clips from stories pivoting on various people, including a cab driver, a woman on the street, a mother, a laborer and people from a women’s shelt...

• 2014 Venice Film Festival (In Competition)

World Cinema

• Belgium
• 2014
• 95min

After taking a leave of absence for depression, Sandra finds it hard to return to work. Her superiors seduce her co-workers into accepting Sandra’s imminent dismissal by giving them bonuses. Over the weekend, she goes door-to-door...

• Cannes Film Festival (In Competition)

Flash Forward

• France
• 2014
• 108min

Pierre Tardieu, a day laborer, lives with his sick father. Reminiscing about his childhood with his mother on the beach, he can’t free himself from her. Murdering someone becomes the only way of realizing his existence. One day, h...