World Focus
The year is 1916, the year of Verdun, perhaps the most important year for the French of the entire war. The women of the Pardier farm, under the deft hand of the family's matriarch, must grapple wi...
Director: Xavier Beauvois
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10/26
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© 2017 – les films du Worso – Rita Productions – KNM – Pathé Production – Orange Studio – France 3 Cinéma – Versus production – RTS Radio Télévision Suisse
World Focus
Energetic Oum Yazan is trying desperately to keep her family together whilst a war is raging outside. The family sits together around a large table at midday, everyone trying to make themselves hea...
Director: Philippe Van Leeuw
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10/28
10:35-
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© Altitude100 - Liaison Cinématographique - Minds Meet - Né à Beyrouth Films
World Focus
Ismaël Vuillard makes films. He is in the middle of one about Ivan, an atypical diplomat inspired by his brother. Along with Bloom, his master and father-in-law, Ismaël still mourns the death of Ca...
Director: Arnaud Desplechin
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10/28
12:00-
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11:30-
©2017 Why Not Productions – France 2 Cinéma
World Focus
A New York City romantic comedy, Keep the Change is the unlikely love story of two people who meet in a support group. While David, an upper-class charmer, wants nothing to do with this world, Sara...
Director: Rachel Israel
/Asian Premiere
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10/27
12:00-
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11/02
18:50-
© Night to Shine LLC
World Focus
Isabelle - a single, divorced artist with one child - is looking for love. True love at last.
Director: Claire Denis
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10/29
21:00-
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11/02
16:00-
© Curiosa Films – FD Production – Ad Vitam – Versus production
World Focus
Standing on the edge of adulthood, Andrew yearns to find his purpose as a young African-American in today's America. With his mother longing to find more to her life then parenting, Andrew is force...
Director: Antonio Méndez Esparza
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10/27
18:10-
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10:30-
World Focus
A young man from a village in the Congo hopes to offer his family a better future. His only resources are his own two hands, the surrounding bush, and an iron will. When he sets out on an exhaustin...
Director: Emmanuel Gras
/Japanese Premiere
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10/30
12:00-
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©bathysphere - 2017
World Focus
Summer 1943, Piedmont, Italy. Milton loves Fulvia, who plays with his love: she only likes the depth of his thought and the letters he writes to her. One year later, Milton has joined the Resistanc...
Director: Paolo & Vittorio Taviani
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11/01
12:30-
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11/03
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© Pyramide International
World Focus
In October 2015 a group of fans of the film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966) visited the location of the film’s final sequence in Burgos, Spain. Abandoned for 50 years and covere...
Director: Guillermo de Oliveira
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10/31
21:25-
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11/02
12:20-
©Zapruder Pictures 2017.
World Focus
Aboriginal stockman Sam Kelly works the land of a kind preacher, Fred Smith, living and laboring in a respectful, if diffident, harmony. But when a bitter and often-drunk war veteran named Harry Ma...
Director: Warwick Thornton
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10/29
17:30-
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19:50-
©Bunya Productions
World Focus
One morning, Naftali (Tzahi Grad from Big Bad Wolves), a local media personality, collects a Palestinian laborer named Fahed (Ala Dakka from Beyond the Mountains and Hills and brings him home to pa...
Director: Tzahi Grad
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10/27
21:30-
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World Focus
A hard rain is about to fall on a small town in Southern China. In a desperate attempt to find money to repair his fiancée’s failed plastic surgery, Xiao Zhang, a driver, steals a bag containing on...
Director: Liu Jian
/Japanese Premiere
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10/30
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© 2017 Nezha Bros. Pictures, Le-Joy Animation Studio
World Focus
A married poet in his late 30s, who has lived on Jeju Island since birth, leads an uneventful life, slowly losing inspiration. His wife is desperate to have a baby and pushes the poet to make love ...
Director: Kim Yang-hee
/Japanese Premiere
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10/31
15:30-
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© 2017 CJ CGV Co., Ltd., JIN PICTURES, MIIN PICTURES All Rights Reserved
World Focus
About a hundred kilometers away from Kabul, Salim Shaheen, the most popular and prolifc actor-director-producer in Afghanistan, comes to show some of his 110 films and to shoot the 111th in the pro...
Director: Sonia Kronlund
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10/31
19:30-
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©Gloria Films
World Focus
Durga, a female north Indian migrant, and a young Keralite man named Kabeer are running away in the middle of the night. They are waiting for transportation to the nearest railway station to catch ...
Director: Sanal Kumar Sasidharan
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10/26
16:00-
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11/01
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World Focus
A Chinese village deep in the countryside: home to 10-year-old Zhu Hongbo, whom everyone calls ‘Stonehead’. He is one of many children whose parents have moved to the big cities as migrant workers....
Director: Zhao Xiang
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10/31
12:45-
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©3C Films Co., Ltd.
World Focus
Callous and eccentric CEO Lu Jin checks into a hotel to conduct acquisition research. He is dissatisfied with everything he sees, but a last-minute dish whipped up by sous-chef Gu Shengnan blows hi...
Director: Derek Hui
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11/02
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© 2017 Beijing Phoenix Entertainment Co., Ltd. Shanghai Alibaba Pictures Co., Ltd. J.Q. Pictures Limited Dream Sky Films Co., Ltd. Huaxia Film Distribution Co. Ltd. We Pictures Ltd. Hakim Unique Media Group Co., Ltd. Blink Pictures Lian Ray Pictures. ALL Rights Reserved.
World Focus
Bangis is a poor gravedigger living inside a cemetery mausoleum with his family. As his daughter becomes ill, getting her checked into a hospital becomes a dilemma. He knows he needs to get money a...
Director: Daniel R. Palacio
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10/26
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World Focus
Vikram, a hard-nosed cop. Vedha, a notorious gangster. Vikram is a member of a task force formed to eliminate Vedha and his gang. Each time Vedha is cornered, he narrates a story from his life, eac...
Director: Pushkar & Gayatri
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10/29
20:10-
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World Focus
- Drama
- Romance
- Youth Drama
Made on a shoestring budget, this tale of youths at the bottom rungs of Hong Kong society shows the territory gripped by uncertainty on the cusp of its return to Chinese rule. Then-rookie director ...
Director: Fruit Chan
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©Teamwork Production House Ltd./Nicetop Independent Ltd.
World Focus
A Foley Artist is a biographic documentary of Master Hu Ding-yi, the most experienced Foley artist in Taiwan, with his inventive talent for reproducing sound effects. He has devoted 40 years of his...
Director: Wang Wan-jo
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10/25
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©Wan-Jo Wang
World Focus
Pickle works as a security guard at a Buddha statue factory at night. His favorite pastime is to read porn magazines and watch TV with his best pal Belly Button. One day, out of boredom, they grab ...
Director: Huang Hsin-yao
/Japanese Premiere
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10/27
19:00-
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©2017 Creamfilm, MandarinVision. All rights reserved.
World Focus
Lin Shu-wei, a super-nerd, gets teased and harassed all the time by classmates. One day he gets into trouble and is assigned to community service with three bullies from his class. The four are sup...
Director: Giddens Ko
/Japanese Premiere
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10/26
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©Star Ritz International Entertainment Co., Ltd.
World Focus
During the period of imposition of Martial Law and The White Terror in 1950s, a student named Ko is rounded up by the police for attending a clandestine political study group. In captivity, he unin...
Director: Wan Jen
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© 1995 Wan Jen Films Co., Ltd / © 2015 Taiwan Film Institute. All rights reserved.
