Gala Presentation

• France
• 2015
• 113min

Antoine, an easygoing and successful film composer, has the look of a classic film star. When he takes a job to compose the theme music for a Bollywood film based on Romeo and Juliet, he has the opportunity to visit India, where, ...

Gala Presentation

• Japan
• 2015
• 128min

A father who walked out on his wife and three daughters fifteen years ago dies. At the funeral, his daughters meet their half-sister, who like them was also left behind. Happy to have found another sibling, the sisters ask her to ...

• Cannes Film Festival (In Competition)

Gala Presentation

• Italy
• 2015
• 125min

Legendary rock star Marianne (Tilda Swinton) is on vacation with her film director husband Paul in the Mediterranean. She communicates with him only using her body language and facial expression in order to save her voice. Mariann...

• Venice International Film Festival (In Competition)

Gala Presentation

• China,Japan,France
• 2015
• 126min

The Chinese title of Jia Zhangke’s wonderful film, Shan He Gu Ren, is a saying that’s hard to translate. In essence, it compares unchanging, age-old landscapes with the instabilities of human lives. The film is in three chapters, ...

• Cannes Film Festival (In Competition)

Gala Presentation

• Taiwan,China,Hong Kong,China,France
• 2015
• 104min

Hou Hsiao-Hsien has talked about making a martial-arts film for at least a decade, but we all knew that he wouldn’t come up with anything in the King Hu or Lau Kar-Leung traditions. That doesn’t prevent his new film ? eight years ...

• Cannes Film Festival (In Competition - Award for Best Director)

Gala Presentation

• China,Korea,Japan,Thailand
• 2015
• 96min

For the Gala Presentation this year, we are proud to present for the first time Color of Asia - Masters, a joint project among BIFF, Youku (China’s largest streaming site) and Heyi Pictures Inc.. Participating in this project are ...