A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan,Germany
• 2016
• 90min

Kanjaki, a middle-aged man, goes to a quiet countryside village. He puts his helmet on a shrunken old woman whom he meets by chance in a shop. As soon as he presses the buttons on the helmet one by one, she suddenly remembers forg...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan,France
• 2016
• 118min

Toshio runs a blacksmith’s workshop and lives with his wife Akie and little daughter Hotaru, but he is strangely indifferent to his family. His old friend Yashaka visits him after he is released from prison and Toshio lets him sta...

• Cannes Film Festival (Jury Prize - Un Certain Regard)

Midnight Passion

• Indonesia
• 2016
• 117min

A mysterious young man jolts awake after months in a coma, nursed back to health by young student-doctor Ailin after being discovered left for dead with a gunshot wound to the head. It’s a rebirth of sorts and, realizing that the ...

Open Cinema

• Germany
• 2016
• 119min

In a small village in the Black Forest, Peter and Lisbeth are in love. But things aren’t so simple. Lisbeth’s father is a rich glassworker, while Peter is a poor miner. To become respectably rich, Peter bargains with Michel the Ho...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2016
• 22min

Yeonjeong is a would-be actress, and an audition for a firefighter’s role is suddenly scheduled. To show her passion for performance, she goes to the audition clad as a firefighter, only to be scolded by the AD and the scripter.

Flash Forward

• Iceland,Denmark
• 2016
• 129min

Tor and Kristjan spend a turbulent summer in a remote fishing village. Tor’s best friend Kristjan is always protecting him from his sisters at home and others outside. Both are from dysfunctional families, Tor with a disinterested...

• Venice Film Festival (Venice Days)

World Cinema

• France
• 2016
• 105min

Sonia, 17-year-old, almost committed the unlikable to “guarantee” a spot in heaven to her family. Melanie, 16, lives with her mother, loves to go to school and hang out with her friends, plays the cello and wants to make the world...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Bhutan
• 2016
• 95min

Deep in the dense forest of Bhutan, apart from secular society, a unique ceremony takes place every Year of the Monkey, which comes in every twelfth year in Buddhist monk and director Khyentse Norbu’s unconventional mystery drama....

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2016
• 125min

By Nakano Ryota, Her Love Boils Bathwater is a family drama evoking both laughter and tears but at the same time delivering a strong feminist message. Miyazawa Rie gives an impassioned performance as Futaba, who embraces all love ...

New Currents

• Japan
• 2016
• 95min

Maybe it is possible for a victim to forgive a perpetrator. But would it be possible for both of them to understand each other? Sato Yoshinori’s Her Mother tells the story of a mother who state of mind becomes increasingly complic...