World Cinema

• France
• 2013
• 97min

At a summertime lake, a special space for men, Franck allows himself to be swept away by the lethal but magnetic Michel while sharing a friendship with Henri. One night, a man is murdered and Franck, the only witness, ultimately h...

• Cannes Film Festival - Prize of Un Certain Regard Best Director

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 105min

This rediscovery is one of Park Chul-soo’s early films, based on a novel by Lee Oi-soo. Two poor college students struggle to survive in an abandoned house. The man is absorbed with painting the image of 99 dogs on a canvas, while...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan,France
• 2013
• 138min

In line with his previous work Walker, Tsai Ming Liang proves to be evolving with his filmmaking style that he uses images to develop a story in his latest film Stray Dogs. He did his own production design in this film in pursuit ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2013
• 114min

A comedy film about two young Japanese women of Satori(nirvana) generation. A freelancer writer Tamami ran into another woman Juno in the house of her boyfriend whom she dated for months. They soon realized that their mutual boyfr...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2013
• 114min

Tomoko is an expert in natural fabric dyeing and has been involved in an affair for eight years with Shinko, a married writer. Shinko lives a double life spending half of the week with his family and the other half with Tomoko. On...

Special Programs in Focus

• Kazakhstan
• 2013
• 132min

It is the 1930s, and Soviet rule arrives in Kazakhstan, and with it, collectivization?the nationalization of private property. The herds slaughtered and dispatched to Moscow reducing Kazakhstan’s population by 50 percent in less t...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2013
• 73min

This omnibus film was directed by four upcoming Taiwanese directors with each partner director from South Korea, France, Chile and Iran. Not knowing each other previously, these young directors get together in Taipei to collaborat...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2013
• 109min

There is a traditional butcher shop, where a family does it all, from the slaughter to sales. It is the Kitade Butcher Shop in Osaka, which is famous for providing great meat for over 100 years. As their slaughterhouse is demolish...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2013
• 78min

In My Back Page (2011) and The Drudgery Train (2012), Yamashita Nobuhiro expanded his views on his specialty genre, the youth film or coming of age drama. At the same time, he expressed his hope of returning to small and simple fi...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2013
• 15min

A young single mother raising a baby girl receives a financial offer for her to become a temporary wife of an unknown man. Even though it’s no different than prostitution, she accepts the offer for her daughter. While the film dea...