Wide Angle

• Malaysia
• 2013
• 76min

The film begins with the dim lights of an old theater closed long ago. An inspiration to Tsai Mingliang’s Goodbye, Dragon Inn, this theater is possibly where the director’s world of film began. Symbolic of the Taiwanese new wave, ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2013
• 130min

The film depicts a long process of a family’s conflicts and separation. Ahmad, who has been separated from his wife for four years, returns to Paris from Iran to divorce her. Meanwhile, Marie is in a relationship with Samir. Samir...

• Cannes Film Festival- Award for Best Actress

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2013
• 126min

After ten years of bizarre activity, members of a Yakuza group and amateur film maniacs decide to shoot a film together. The allowed time is ten days. The Yakuza members are waiting to boast of their real actions to the action fil...

World Cinema

• France
• 2013
• 76min

A poor stage actor puts greater priority on his career than on his daughter from his ex-lover. He, however, falls in love again with an actress. If he helps his new love’s acting career without selfish interest, can he be successf...

• Venice Film Festival (In Competition)

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kazakhstan
• 2013
• 67min

Three orphaned siblings, who are about to be kicked out on to the street, take a bus to the outer suburbs and arrive on an empty plain. There, a small portion of land belongs to them. If they do not build a house there, the govern...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 108min

Former policeman Song Kiyeol, now an old, sick tramp, is detained at a rehabilitation camp for the homeless, where he encounters Jjakko, a one-time communist partisan. Jjakko was also an object of pursuit during Kiyeol’s entire po...

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2013
• 80min

It Was You Charlie is a dark comedy-drama that tells the story of a lonely graveyard shift doorman named Abner, a once-accomplished sculptor and former college art teacher, but now sadly, a mere shadow of his former self. He is he...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2013
• 80min

The surroundings in this film is not merely a background, but a key axis of the images. A young couple from Tehran moves to a temporary residence in a hope to make a better loving relationship. The wife lost all her family members...

Wide Angle

• Kurd
• 2013
• 74min

This film experimentally recreates the history of the Kurdish genocide in Iraq. In 1988, the Iraqi government killed 182,000 Kurds and buried them with ‘Operation Anfal’, an ethnic cleansing operation. Faraj managed to survive and...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China,Japan
• 2013
• 129min

A Touch of Sin shows a different style for Jia Zhangke, who has created a cinematic world that is simultaneously Chinese and universal, and that captures the subtle relationship between spaces and people. Although this new feature...

• Cannes Film Festival- Award for Best Screenplay