Special Programs in Focus

• Georgia,France
• 2014
• 99min

At a volatile time with political upheavals, one brother keeps sinking into an illicit lifestyle, while another finds his talent for the piano. To Datuna, a young talented pianist, playing piano is his only amusement and pastime. ...

Flash Forward

• France
• 2014
• 92min

On his way to Europe across the Sahara Desert, Cameroonian Leonard meets Hope, a girl from Nigeria who has been raped. Just before entering Europe, there are several “ghettos” formed by different African nations. When they enter a...

• Cannes Film Festival (Critics′ Week)

World Cinema

• Hungary
• 2014
• 121min

White God is a film silently criticizing dog abuse, through the friendship between a 13-year-old girl and her dog, Hagen. But more than a simple critique, the film shines with wit and imagination in this story about the counter-at...

• Prix Un Certain Regard at Cannes Film Festival

Gala Presentation

• Korea
• 2014
• 93min

Vice President Oh is highly respected at his cosmetics company and is a faithful family man. One day, he finds out that his wife has been diagnosed with cancer and later spends every night on the hospital’s extra bed to keep her c...

Gala Presentation

• China,Hong Kong,China
• 2014
• 178min

A historical drama about Xiao Hong, China’s most influential author of the 1930s, comes to the screen by Hong Kong’s master director Ann Hui. The film begins with a soliloquy by Xiao Hong and continues with reflections by fellow w...

• Venice Film Festival (Out of Competition)

World Cinema

• Belgium
• 2014
• 97min

Leo Woeste, a serious crime squad investigator in Brussels, lives with his girlfriend and her five-yearold son, and successfully balances work and family. Upon hearing that his girlfriend is pregnant, he becomes overwhelmed with a...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan,Hong Kong,China
• 2014
• 94min

A feminist film about a middle-aged woman alienated from her family and society, who comes to self-realization as a woman, but must struggle with an unchanging reality. Ling works as a seamstress in a factory. Her husband works in...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2014
• 69min

As a documentary director and a citizen who used power created at the nuclear plant, Kana Tomoko feels it her responsibility to report the leak situation in tsunami-battered Fukushima. After returning to Tokyo she finds out that s...

World Cinema

• Turkey,Germany
• 2014
• 87min

In a small town in Anatolia, Turkey, Medine faces a problem. According to custom, her son must be circumcised and afterwards, they must invite guests to have roasted lamb. But her husband is unemployed. Meanwhile, Mert’s sister is...

• Berlin Film Festival (Panorama)

Wide Angle

• Italy
• 2014
• 20min

An employee goes to a meeting with a Chinese investor, one who likes riddles when his company gets into financial trouble. Now he begins an unexpected journey to meet the investor. (NAM Dong-chul)