A Window on Asian Cinema

• Yerbol ZHUMAGULOV
• Kazakhstan
• 2013
• 93min

A film about question of live in the emerging fabulous material life. A young talented Ongar is an advertising director who enjoys wealth and honor. His life, however, is empty ins...

Gala Presentation

• Zhanna ISSABAYEVA
• Kazakhstan
• 2013
• 80min

This is the third feature film of Zhanna Issabayeva, independent filmmaker and an outsider of the Kazakhstan film world. Abandoned girls’ desperate lives are depicted in a frighten...

New Currents

• Alexey GORLOV
• Kazakhstan
• 2013
• 75min

Director Aleksey Gorlov’s second feature is an experimental film executed in a single take. It makes sharp criticisms of the selfish nature of mankind. The Ruslan mansion is busy p...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Maziar MIRI
• Iran
• 2013
• 96min

Mariam and Reja are mentally handicapped couple, with a son named Soheil, a fourth grader in an elementary school. Through poorly off, they have a happy life, laughing and making n...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Keisuke KINOSHITA
• Japan
• 2013
• 156min

A young teacher named Oishi is appointed to a branch school on a remote island. The village elders are scandalized when they see her riding a bicycle to the school dressed in Weste...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Keiichi HARA
• Japan
• 2013
• 96min

This film, made to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Keisuke Kinoshita’s birth, condensed his view of art and life through the short period when he was away from the film world,...

Wide Angle

• Jooho KIM
• Korea,South
• 2013
• 11min

Hanging around snapping photos of a girl next door, Junho finally gets up the nerve to say hello to her. Though Junho had no film in his camera, it doesn’t stop the pair from a lov...

Special Programs in Focus

• Kalykbek SALYKOV
• 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 surv...

Special Programs in Focus

• Rachid NOUGMANOV
• Kazakhstan
• 2013
• 98min

This postmodern drama’s main thrust is a game of and with cinematic and cultural symbols. The collapse of the Soviet Union is rendered as an apocalypse of sorts - the action takes ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Talib KHAMIDOV
• Tajikistan
• 2013
• 83min

Why the “presence?” Set during Tajikistan’s civil war from 1993 to 1997, the film features no military action, only occasional bursts of automatic rifle fire and men in uniform eme...