21 NUITS AVEC PATTIE
21 Nights with Pattie, directed by Arnaud Larrieu and Jean-Marie Larrieu.
In high summer, Caroline, a Parisian wife and mother, arrives in a small village in southern France. There, she has to organize the funeral of her mother, a flighty lawyer whom she hardly knew. She...
Director: Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu
World Focus/Asian Premiere
©Los Films de Orfeo
L'Accademia delle Muse
On returning from class, a professor is questioned by his wife, who distrusts his pedagogic project: an "Academy of the Muses" inspired by classical references, which is supposed to contribute to r...
Director: José Luis Guerin
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
Sangue Del Mio Sangue
Federico, a young priest, is summoned by the 17th-Century Inquisition to a convent prison in Bobbio. His mission is to coerce Sister Benedetta to confess that she has seduced and driven to death he...
Director: Marco Bellocchio
World Focus/Asian Premiere
Cialo
Poland, nowadays. The intertwined stories of a criminal prosecutor, who sees dead bodies in his everyday life which in his lonely world become mere objects; his anorexic daughter who sees her body ...
Director: Małgorzata Szumowska
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
© Alfama Films
Witold has just failed his law exams, and Fuchs has recently quit his job at a Parisian fashion label. Both are going to spend a few days in the countryside, and choose to stay at a so-called famil...
Director: Andrzej Zulawski
World Focus/Asian Premiere
© Kinorama, Gustav film, SEE Film Pro
ZVIZDAN
Three different love stories, set in three consecutive decades, in two neighbouring Balkan villages burdened with a long history of inter-ethnic hatred: this is a film about the dangers—and the end...
Director: Dalibor Matanić
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City is one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse communities in the USA and the world. Some of the issues the film raises—assimilation, integration, immig...
Director: Frederick Wiseman
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
La tierra y la sombra
Alfonso is an old farmer who has returned home to tend to his son, who is gravely ill. He rediscovers his old house, where the woman who was once his wife still lives, with his daughter-in-law and ...
Director: César Augusto Acevedo
World Focus/Asian Premiere
©2015 Graniet Film, Czar TV, VARA - All rights reserved.
SCHNEIDER VS BAX
Schneider, a hit man, gets a call from Mertens on the morning of his birthday. He has a last-minute assignment for Schneider who refuses it, because it is his birthday and he has promised Lucy, his...
Director: Alex van Warmerdam
World Focus/Asian Premiere
© Tangerine Film, LLC
It's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn't been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the sex worker and her best friend...
Director: Sean Baker
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
The Terrible Privacy of Mr. Sim
La vie très privée de Monsieur Sim
François Sim seems to have hit rock bottom. Estranged from his father, newly divorced, unable to communicate with his only daughter, he realizes that, while he may have seventy-four friends on Face...
Director: Michel Leclerc
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
©Matchfactory
Victoria, a young woman from Madrid, meets four young Berlin guys outside a club. Sonne and his gang have got themselves into hot water and Victoria ends up as their driver. But what starts as a bi...
Director: Sebastian Schipper
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
© 2015 All Rights Reserved by CKF Pictures Huayi Brothers Media Corporation Artisan Pictures
少年班
On September 3, 1998, the first day of school. 22 talented prodigies arrive at a prestigious school by bus. They are a group of students called the Youth Class, who will receive top-notch education...
Director: Xiao Yang
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
Abluka
Istanbul is in the grip of political violence. Hamza, a high-ranking police officer, offers Kadir a conditional release from prison, in exchange for working in the new intelligence unit of garbage ...
Director: Emin Alper
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
©YKB HOS Tjokroaminoto
Guru Bangsa Tjokroaminoto
The Hijra is an anti-radicalism statement. This is particularly important considering Indonesia consists of 190 million Muslim citizens. The film shows that Islam developed rapidly in Indone...
Director: Garin Nugroho
World Focus/International Premiere
©2015 pd; psbt
AR Rahman has single-handedly catapulted Indian film music to the world stage. Time Magazine has placed him in its list of World's Most Influential People. His prolific body of work, over 120 film ...
Director: Umesh Aggarwal
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
O Kadhal Kanmani
O Kadhal Kanmani is an unconventional tale of romance mapped out in Mumbai, and weaves its lyrical tale through the fabric of the city’s drastically bipolar persona... Set against the backdr...
Director: Mani Ratnam
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
© JEONWONSA Film Co.
지금은맞고그때는틀리다
Film director Chun-su arrives in Suwon a day early by mistake, and kills time at an old palace. There he meets an artist named Yoon Hee-jung. Together, they look at Hee-jung’s paintings, have dinne...
Director: Hong Sang-soo
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
Gtsngbo／河
Little girl Yangchan Lhamo’s shepherd father Guru has a motorbike accident. The villagers think it must be bad karma coming back to him from having neglected his own father, a well-respected monk. ...
Director: Sonthar Gyal
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
©Emperor Film Production Company Limited
破風
The success of Radiant, one of the world’s top cycling teams, is undermined when competition heats up within, between the three principal riders, each aspiring to be number one. As the code of team...
Director: Dante Lam
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
©Renaissance Films Limited
風中家族
In the year 1949, as the long-fought Civil War in China comes to a close, three young Nationalist soldiers come across an orphaned boy as they flee from the encroaching Communists. The three men an...
Director: Wang Tung
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
百日告別
On the same day, in the same accident, Yuwei loses his pregnant wife and Ming loses her fiancé, leaving their world with nothing but emptiness. Buddhist rituals give 100 days to mourn for the dead,...
Director: Tom Shu-yu Lin
World Focus/Japanese Premiere
Old Well [Digitally Restored Version]
老井
The film revolves around the story of several generations of farmers digging wells, reflecting the struggle of the contemporary rural to conquer nature and overcome themselves, as well as different...
Director: Wu Tianming
World Focus
