A Window on Asian Cinema

• Mahmoud AL MASSAD
• Germany,Jordan,Netherlands,Qatar
• 2016
• 83min

Ahmed, a construction worker, lends his cousin money that he had received from a customer as a deposit. Unable to get it back, he has no money to return to his customer, nor does h...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• YAMASHITA Nobuhiro
• Japan
• 2016
• 112min

Odagiri Joe and Aoi Yu star in this film as lonely adults with unspeakable stories of on another. The director Yamashita Nobuhiro, who has often focused on the lives of Japanese yo...

Wide Angle

• Ulrich SEIDL
• Austria,Denmark
• 2016
• 92min

Hunters from Germany and Austria track down wild animals like the bushbuck, impala, zebra, and gnu on the open plains of Africa. Firing their rifles, the hunters shout with excitem...

• 베니스영화제 비경쟁부문

New Currents

• WANG Xuebo
• China
• 2016
• 93min

Wang Xuebo’s debut feature film focuses on the mutual understanding between a man and a cow. In a mountain village in Ningxia, China, where the Hui people live, old man Majishan’s ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Mohammad Ali TALEBI
• Iran
• 2016
• 75min

Kianush is a street musician who plays violin on the streets of Tehran. His life is tough as he lives with his cousin and supports his family living in his hometown, but he enjoys ...

New Currents

• CHU Hsien-Che
• Taiwan
• 2016
• 95min

The debut feature film by Chu Hsien-Che, who made several documentaries, White Ant is a psychological drama that tells a story about sexual fetishism. Bai Yide is a young ma...

Wide Angle

• Tin Win NAING
• Germany,Myanmar
• 2016
• 73min

In Exile is an autobiographical documentary by Myanmar’s Naing Tin Win. Having made a video clip of protests against the authoritarian regime in 2006, Naing was forced to es...

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New Currents

• Navid MAHMOUDI
• Iran,Afghanistan
• 2016
• 78min

Having moved from Afghanistan to Iran with his family at the age of six, Parting is Navid Mahmoudi’s debut feature film, which explores the ongoing tragedy of illegal immigr...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Nurlan ABDYKADYROV
• Kyrgyzstan
• 2016
• 92min

Traveling with the Bomb is a road movie that addresses the controversial practice of bride kidnapping, which still happens in Kyrgyzstan. Having attended university in Almat...

New Currents

• Sanjeewa PUSHPAKUMARA
• France,SriLanka,Netherlands,Qatar
• 2016
• 84min

Set in a small northern Sri Lankan village in 1989, Burning Birds is a film critical of society. Director Sanjieewa Pushpakumara considers this society in which social viole...