Midnight Passion

• Denmark
• 2013
• 100min

Following a shootout that left his two partners respectively dead and paralyzed, chief detective Carl Mørck is assigned to the newly established Department Q, a department for old, terminated cases. The department consists only of...

Special Programs in Focus

• Ireland
• 2013
• 90min

The semi-autobiographical In America tells the story of a family of Irish immigrants trying to succeed in New York. Written by Jim Sheridan with his daughters Kirsten and Naomi, and shot in the aftermath of 9/11, the film is a hea...

Flash Forward

• Chile,Germany,Italy,Spain
• 2013
• 95min

Teenaged Bianca’s world is upended after the tragic death of her parents. Agreeing to aid her younger brother Tomas in a ridiculous heist involving blind, aging B-movie star and hermit Maciste, Bianca unexpectedly finds the normal...

• Film Festival Rotterdam - KNF Award

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2013
• 85min

This low-budget independent film conveying Director Sabu’s new perspective on zombies, is a philosophical contemplation on ‘human qualities’. A zombie named Sara is delivered to the Teramoto family. Working as a maid, Sara soon be...

World Cinema

• Australia
• 2013
• 118min

Though it keeps faith with his previous award-winning films Beneath Clouds, Toomerlah, Ivan Sen’s latest film Mystery Road nevertheless represents a quantum leap in his filmmaking. Embracing a range of references as diverse as Bon...

• Sydney Film Festival (Opening Film)

Flash Forward

• Ireland,UK
• 2013
• 86min

This journey to the past takes us to a summer of tragedy. A middle-aged artist returns to an Irish beach town following his wife’s death. The visit reminds him of the romantic yet disturbing past when he became sexually aware and ...

Opening Film & Closing Film

• Bhutan
• 2013
• 96min

This third feature by director and Bhutan priest Khyentse Norbu is based on Sunil Gangopadhyay’s short story Rakta Aar Kanna. Norbu wrote the screenplay and brought together an international crew to finish the project. The film re...

World Cinema

• Poland
• 2013
• 127min

In Gda?sk in 1981, an influential Italian reporter pays a visit to Lech Wał?sa, the Polish Solidarity movement leader, for an interview . Through the interview the film relates the struggles and life of the contemporary Polish pol...

• Venice Film Festival (Out of Competition)

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Tajikistan
• 2013
• 90min

Is a city like a ruthless jungle where happy middle class man can get killed without any good reasons? Or is it more like a merciful nest where a patient with terminal condition can get transplantation to be given a new life? Romi...

Special Programs in Focus

• Kazakhstan
• 2013
• 80min

During an operation, a surgeon, Aydar, recognizes his patient as a childhood friend by a tattoo on the man’s hand. It inspires memories of Alma-Aty of 1960s - a time of how he survived with his sister after Stalin’s regime, when h...