Wide Angle
SproutThe family preparing for their grandfather’s ancestral offering, forget to buy bean sprouts. Like Abbas Kiarostami’s Where Is My Friend’s House, a girl gets lost on her way to mark...
Wide Angle
I Am a BulletAn animation depicting the fate of a bullet. While waiting for his moment of blastoff, the new recruit bullet Tang falls in love with his successor, Pyeonghwa. Just before he has a...
A Window on Asian Cinema
What They Don′t Talk about When They Talk about LoveWhat They Don’t Talk about When They Talk about Love is the second full feature film by Mouly Surya, who visited BIFF in 2008 with her debut film, Fiksi. This new film is a story a...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Closed CurtainKamboziya Partovi and Jafar Panahi’s second project since Panahi’s governmental ban from all film related activities. The film begins in a villa by a quiet beach. A writer arrives ...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Harmony LessonsThough it has the form of a coming of age film, the realities within Harmony Lessons are quite cruel. This first feature film by Emir Baigazin, a 2007 BIFF AFA fellow, is more of a...
A Window on Asian Cinema
TogetherA film about an opportunity for forgiveness and reconciliation brought about by chance. Stories of love and hate between a daughter and a father, and two couples come together as o...
Wide Angle
In the SummerAfter a girl witnesses a boy act on his affection for his friend, he agrees to do her bidding in order to keep his secret. But when the friend discovers the truth, the consequences...
Wide Angle
Villa TristeAfter moving out of a basement apartment, Kyunghee returns later to find an item she left behind. Unable to locate it, the landlord’s son finally hands her a package. (NAM Dong-chu...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Keening WomanThis is the second feature by Rita Hui, a female indie-film director of Hong Kong, who as a video artist, has been earnestly exploring the human mind. In this film, the mysterious ...
World Cinema
Child′s PoseSeeing a way to reassert control over her adult son’s life when he faces manslaughter charges, an affluent Romanian woman sets out on a campaign of emotional and social manipulatio...