2016 Kaohsiung Film Festival
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- DirectorCheng-Chui KuoStarsGwei Lun-MeiYi-ching LuDeep in the barren mountains, a mother and a daughter live an isolated quiet life. The Daughter looks lean and fragile. She seems unreactive toward her surroundings, confining herself in her own wretched world. The Mother is like a guardian angel who always protects her and takes care of everything. Before living in seclusion, The Daughter was a pianist who lost her husband and son. The Mother decided to take her away and hid her in the mountains where no one could ever find them, believing it is the only possible way for her daughter to survive, Nevertheless, they have to face nothing but themselves ever since, as well as to confront the endless forest...
- DirectorJoachim TrierStarsJesse EisenbergGabriel ByrneIsabelle HuppertThe fractious family of a father and his two sons confront their different feelings and memories of their deceased wife and mother, a famed war photographer.
- DirectorDario ArgentoStarsDavid HemmingsDaria NicolodiGabriele LaviaA jazz pianist and a wisecracking journalist are pulled into a complex web of mystery after the former witnesses the brutal murder of a psychic.
- DirectorDario ArgentoStarsJessica HarperStefania CasiniFlavio BucciAn American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.
- DirectorStanley KubrickStarsJack NicholsonShelley DuvallDanny LloydA family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.
- DirectorTodd HaynesStarsJulianne MooreXander BerkeleyDean NorrisAn affluent and unexceptional homemaker in the suburbs develops multiple chemical sensitivity.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsIsabella RosselliniKyle MacLachlanDennis HopperThe discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
- DirectorPeter StricklandStarsToby JonesAntonio MancinoGuido AdorniA sound engineer's work for an Italian horror studio becomes a terrifying case of life imitating art.
- DirectorHong-jin MoStarsShim Eun-kyungYun Je-munKim Sung-ohA little girl who lost her father to a serial killer 15 years ago awaits for his release, while a suspecting detective follows the killer upon release.
- DirectorFire LeeStarsJ. ArieAaron ChowAnita ChuiA down and out guy called Ping (Derek Tsang) gets a job at a convenience store one night. Ping decides to have some fun to strike back against his new unpleasant employer, Fat Boss (Lam Suet) and colleague Mabel (J. Arie) joins in the mischief. During the night a passerby (Phillip Keung) needs the toilet, a young woman in a cheerleader's outfit (Anita Choi) wants some condoms, and Grandpa (Feng Tsui Fan) wants a sandwich and some large scissors. Before long insanity ensues and the Exceed convenience store becomes the scene of a robbery.
- DirectorIshirô HondaStarsTakashi ShimuraAkihiko HirataAkira TakaradaAfter a dinosaur-like beast - awoken from undersea hibernation by atom bomb testing - ravages Tokyo, a scientist must decide if his similarly dangerous weapon should be used to destroy it.
- DirectorDaniel KwanDaniel ScheinertStarsPaul DanoDaniel RadcliffeMary Elizabeth WinsteadA hopeless man stranded on a deserted island befriends a dead body, and together they go on a surreal journey to get home.
- DirectorRidley ScottStarsSigourney WeaverTom SkerrittJohn HurtThe crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform after investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin.
- DirectorJames CameronStarsSigourney WeaverMichael BiehnCarrie HennDecades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring.
- DirectorDanny BoyleTim Van SomerenStarsJonny Lee MillerBenedict CumberbatchAndreea PaduraruChildlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein's bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the Creature determines to track down his creator.
- DirectorStephen KijakStarsYoshikiHiroshi MorieSugizoA documentary film about the legendary Japanese rock band X JAPAN.
- DirectorAndrzej ZulawskiStarsSabine AzémaJean-François BalmerJonathan GenetA young man, hoping to write a novel, visits a French guest-house with a friend, he but finds himself distracted by a strange mystery and the stranger inhabitants of the home.
- DirectorAndrzej ZulawskiStarsAndrzej SewerynJerzy TrelaGrazyna DylagA team of astronauts land on an inhabitable planet and form a society. Many years later, a single astronaut is sent to the planet and becomes a messiah.
- DirectorAndrzej ZulawskiStarsIsabelle AdjaniSam NeillMargit CarstensenA woman starts exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking her husband for a divorce. Suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more sinister.
- DirectorDaniel BirdStarsAndrzej ZulawskiMarie-Laure ReyreFrederic TutenAbout the making of Andrzej Zulawski's Possession. Featuring director Andrzej Zulawski, producer Marie-Laure Reyre, cameraman Andrzej Jaroszewicz and co-writer Frederic Tuten. Also features artwork by Enki Bilal and music by Ashtray Navigations.
- DirectorAndrzej ZulawskiStarsLeszek TeleszynskiWojciech PszoniakMalgorzata BraunekDuring the Prussian army's invasion of Poland in 1793, a young Polish nobleman, Jakub, is saved from the imprisonment by a stranger who wants in return to obtain a list of his fellow conspirators. Following his mysterious savior across the country, Jakub sees the overall chaos and moral corruption, including his father's death and the betrayal of his friend who stole his fiancee. Being apparently demented by what he has seen, he commits a number of seemingly motiveless and gory killings.
- DirectorAndrzej ZulawskiStarsMalgorzata BraunekLeszek TeleszynskiJan NowickiSet during the occupation of Poland during World War II. Some German soldiers slaughter a woman, her son, and mother-in-law. The husband and his father escape by being in the forest. The husband decides to join the resistance but at the first meeting the Gestapo kills his go-between and chases him. During his escape he gets into the apartment of a pregnant woman in labor and helps her with the childbirth. He works in the typhus center where he is a guinea pig for lice after being immunized to make more vaccine. He goes to the hospital to end the misery of a man mistaken as him and tortured. He seems to see his own body and is finally reconciled with himself.
- DirectorKazuyoshi KumakiriStarsHikari MitsushimaKaoru KobayashiGô AyanoTomoko is sick and tired of her relationship with unpopular talented writer Shingo, who is married and has children. Tomoko then enters into a sexual relationship with younger man Ryota, but Tomoko is still not satisfied.
- DirectorKazuyoshi KumakiriStarsMegumi AsaokaMakiko EmotoKôji EnokidoYuichiro is a college student whose sister went missing 15 years ago. That traumatic event hangs over him as he wanders Japan's S&M clubs. But his younger brother claims to be able to sense their sister with his "antenna."
- DirectorKazuyoshi KumakiriStarsSusumu TerajimaRinko KikuchiBunmei TobayamaThe film tells the story of a Drive-In worker and a young tramp who has been left alone by her boyfriend somewhere in Hokkaido. Things seem to work out at the beginning but as time goes by the newly formed relationship between the tramp and the Drive-In worker starts to show the workers harmful will of possession, which finally leads to the somehow sad but also optimistically interpretable ending.
- DirectorKazuyoshi KumakiriStarsShigeru BokudaSumiko MikamiShunsuke SawadaWhile the leader is in jail, his leftist group is controlled by his girlfriend, but her leadership lacks conviction and perspective. When the leader commits suicide in prison, despair and confusion rule the group and revenge and violence erupts in graphic way.
- DirectorLiang YingStarsNai AnKate WenMing SunTaken from a real life miscarriage of justice in China , this adaptation focuses on a mother ,detained in a mental facility, as her son is sentenced to death for taking vengeance on police officials.
- DirectorLiang YingA young woman visits her father in his flat. She has not seen him for a while. Her plan is to have lunch with him before the Umbrella Movement reaches a critical juncture...
- DirectorLiang YingStarsXigui ChenDeming PengShan Peng
- DirectorChristopher NolanStarsStephen QuayTimothy QuayThis short documentary film reveals the inner workings of the Brothers' studio.
- DirectorStephen QuayTimothy QuayStarsMarlene KaminskyA woman sits alone on a chair at a table in a room on one of the top floors of an asylum. Bright spot lights dot the night, sometimes shining on her window. She sharpens pencils and writes on a page in a copy book. The pencil point often breaks under her fingers' force. She places broken points outside the window on the sill. A satanic figure is somewhere nearby, animated but of straw or clay, not flesh. She finishes her writing, tears the paper from the pad, folds it, places it in an envelope, and slips it through a slot. Is she writing to her husband? "Sweetheart, come."
- DirectorStephen QuayTimothy QuayStarsJoy ConstaninidesWitold SchejbalA porcelain doll and a sleeping woman. How will they interact through her dreams?
- DirectorStephen QuayTimothy QuayStarsFeliks StawinskiInside a box full of curio, a puppet who is recently freed from his strings explores a dusty and forlorn commercial area. The explorer becomes ensnared into miniature tailor shop by baby-faced dolls.
- DirectorStephen QuayTimothy QuayWeiser QuayA doll interacts with lifeless objects like screws, magnets, spoons and a cereal bowl filled with similar metal objects.
- DirectorStephen QuayTimothy QuayA tear falls from the eyes of a veiled face. A white ball whips around a heart-shaped paddle. A mournful voice sings, "Are we still married?" A child's stuffed rabbit watches, sees someone's legs hanging and shoes jiggling, and sees a girl holding a heart-shaped paddle. A hand seen through a door's glass knocks incessantly; the lock jiggles, the child holds the heart-shaped object and leans against the wall, sometimes moving up and down on the toes of her shoes. The rabbit watches, plays with the ball, tries to keep the door shut. The child raises her face; we see a woman's eyes.
- DirectorStephen QuayTimothy QuayWeiser QuayNear an extraordinary chair with many legs, a hand is visible gripping an edge. The hand is weathered, the fingers cracked and scarred. The end of a rifle appears and a shot fires. The bullet is visible whirling through space; it caroms and then goes through a pine cone. A long spoon emerges from a drawer in the chair and stretches toward the hand. The bullet is on the spoon. Later, the hand holds the bullet between two fingers; another shot is fired.
- DirectorStephen QuayTimothy QuayA short black and white animated film with a contemporary musical accompaniment.
- DirectorStephen QuayTimothy QuayStarsWeiser QuayOscillating hands each hold a pen; a man made of wire has a malevolent look and an oscillating eye as he pokes at a bump on his forehead
- DirectorKeith GriffithsStephen QuayTimothy QuayIn Prague, a professorial puppet, with metal pincers for hands and an open book for a hat, takes a boy as a pupil. First, the professor empties fluff and toys from the child's head, leaving him without the top of his head for most of the film. The professor then teaches the lad about illusions and perspectives, the pursuit of an object through exploring a bank of drawers, divining an object, and the migration of forms. The child then brings out a box with a tarantula in it: the professor puts his "hands" into the box and describes what he feels. The boy receives a final lesson about animation and film making; then the professor gives him a brain and his own open-book hat.
- DirectorStephen QuayTimothy QuayWeiser QuayStarsWitold SchejbalUses animation to explore anamorphosis, a method to put hidden images within an artwork, by distorting it using the rules of perspective.
- DirectorKeith GriffithsStephen QuayTimothy QuayLoosely based on the Mesopotamian "Epic of Gilgamesh", here Gilgamesh is portrayed as a grotesque, Picasso-esque being who uses a tricycle to patrol his box-shaped kingdom that hovers above a dark abyss.
- DirectorTsai Ming-liangStarsKang-sheng LeeShiang-chyi ChenYi-ching LuA watch salesman meets a young woman soon leaving for Paris and becomes infatuated, so he begins to change all the clocks in Taipei to Paris time.
- DirectorYi-an LouStarsJack KaoChia-hsin LuYi-ching LuA man refuses to sell his land to developers, despite needing the money for a medical procedure.
- DirectorWen-tang ChengStarsTarcy SuYi-ching LuLeon DaiJust coming out of the jail, depressed and close-hearted, Ah Yu met two men with different characters from each other. One is a businessman, charming and mature; the other is a young supervisor in a factory with a promising future. But these two loves are short-lived, fading away like bubbles on the beach. With a wounded soul, she went back to the cottage owned by Sister An, a friend from jail. An treats her like a sister, embracing her tortured soul. When they are unhappy, they dance on the pier. Their dancing steps swing like small boats in the harbor, driving away all the depression. Someday, a puppet show was performed on the pier. They saw a fisherman, Lao-Yao, playing a puppet. Through Lao-Yao who suffers from autism, Ah Yu found herself tangled in a feeling as deep as the ocean.
- DirectorKang-sheng LeeStarsYi-ching LuChieh ChangMiao TienA grandmother is looking for her grandson, a teenager for his grandfather.
- DirectorCheng-Chui KuoStarsTien-Chu LeeMichelle LinYi-ching LuA french TV crew breaks into a Taiwanese family in Taipei for a real TV program during a weekend. After a short thought and seducing by the possible winnings, Lin's family accepts to be followed by the cameraman Pierre for two days. Little by little, Pierre's camera has become a new way of communication in this family. Everyone delivers their way of life and thinking, and maybe a little secret.
- DirectorYin-chuan TsaiStarsFann WongLee-zen LeeFei Sieh9-year-old Lan and his dad always enjoyed time together in Dad's boat art shop. One day Lan came home and suddenly found Dad dies. Lan is shocked. Dad disappears forever. Sister never cries and refuses to speak to Mom. And Mom insists to prepare a seat for Dad every dinner as if Dad were alive. What is worse, Lan's classmates often laugh at him. Lan starts fighting and running away from school. As life gets harsher, he receives a package. It is a strange-shaped clock which has stopped. Dad sent it before he dies. Lan visits many stores trying to fix the clock but in vain. He hope he will have answer for everything when he eventually solved the mystery of the clock...
- DirectorMidi ZIn the war-torn Kachin State in Myanmar, waves of poor workers flock to dig for jade, dreaming of getting rich overnight. The director, Midi Z, is the protagonist's youngest brother. Midi tries to find out why his brother became a drug addict and abandoned his family. The film depicts how people struggle for survival in the darkest corners in Myanmar.
- DirectorRina B. TsouStarsWhakin C. ManiegoYu Hsuan ChenMei-Man JinDocked at the port of Kaohsiung, Filipino seaman Arnie buys a ring with the help of his mates, to propose to his girlfriend back home. The supposedly happiest moment of his life soon takes a downward spiral when he finds out she is pregnant - but he is not the father of the child.
- DirectorMiwa NishikawaStarsMasahiro MotokiPistol TakeharaEri FukatsuA recently widowed writer whose wife died in a bus crash comes to terms with his grief, or lack of it, in caring for the children of a working man who also lost his wife in the same accident.
- DirectorKleber Mendonça FilhoStarsSonia BragaMaeve JinkingsIrandhir SantosClara, 65, lives her life to the fullest with her family and friends. A construction company wants her Recife oceanfront condo, as they've already bought all the other in the 3 story building. Clara's staying.
- DirectorPaolo VirzìStarsValeria Bruni TedeschiMicaela RamazzottiValentina CarneluttiTwo quite different women escape a mental institution to see Tuscany in a stolen car and get to know each other.
- DirectorMahmoud SabbaghStarsHisham FageehFatima AlBanawiSami HifnyA middle-class man meets a girl from a rich family, and the two begin dating in a society where such unions are frowned upon.
- DirectorBat for LashesGael García BernalAnurag KashyapStarsRadhika ApteKathryn BeckJustina BustosA global anthology film featuring innovative love stories from the some of the world's most visionary directors.
- DirectorBarbara EderStarsErwin SteinhauerManon KahleRaphael von BargenThank you for Bombing accompanies three correspondents to their working place in conflict areas and gives an insight into their daily routine aside from cameras and satellite phones - somewhere between bombing alarm, laundry and Bach flower therapy.
- DirectorSólveig AnspachJean-Luc GagetStarsSamir GuesmiFlorence Loiret CailleDidda JónsdóttirSamir falls in love with Agathe, a swimming-instructor. To seduce her he pretends he doesn't know how to swim so she can teach him.
- DirectorIcíar BollaínStarsAnna CastilloJavier GutiérrezPep AmbròsA girl, her uncle and a friend start an emotional travel to recover a family tree.
- DirectorIsao YukisadaStarsKeita AraiJingi IrieKahoPopular actor Rengo Shiraki (Yuto Nakajima) dies suddenly. Due to his sudden death, unpopular actor Daiki Kawata (Masaki Suda) attracts the spotlight due to his close friendship with Rengo. Did Rengo Shiraki commit suicide or was he murdered?
- DirectorChloé LericheStarsRykko BellemareKwena Bellemare-BoivinJacques NewashishBefore the Streets is a drama film directed by Chloé Leriche. Set among the Atikamekw people, the film stars Rykko Bellemare as Shawnouk, a man undertaking the process of restorative justice after accidentally killing someone.
- DirectorRenée BeaulieuStarsNormand D'AmourPierre-Yves CardinalLouise PortalIs having control of our life a right? Are living and dying freedoms, duties or responsibilities? How should we love? How should we live? How should we die? These questions are woven into the story of Adrien, who suffers from kidney failure. He runs a garage in Trois-Pistoles, a small town on the St-Lawrence in Québec, where people seem ordinary, but aren't: each love story, each life, each destiny is unique.
- DirectorRyan McKennaRyan McKennaStarsMarie BrassardFrancis La HayeYoussef CamaraSabali is a dramatic film with touches of surrealist comedy and science fiction.
- DirectorAnne ÉmondStarsMaxim GaudetteKarelle TremblayValerie CadieuxAfter the death of his father, an artisan does his best to raise and nurture his dynamic daughter.
- DirectorAndré TurpinStarsSophie NélisseMylène MackayLise RoyComplex time shifting drama revolving about a violent senseless murder and young witness.
- DirectorAnaïs Barbeau-LavaletteAndré TurpinStarsMaxime D.-PomerleauMarika LhoumeauMani SoleymanlouA nurse working in a center for the disabled is confronted to his principles when he's asked to accomplish a particular task.
- DirectorAnaïs Barbeau-LavaletteAndré TurpinStarsGeneviève AlarieMarine JohnsonSophie lives with her mother in a small apartment in a popular area. Tonight she plays the violin in the school concert.
- DirectorAnaïs Barbeau-LavaletteAndré TurpinStarsMarie-France MarcotteGuy-Daniel TremblayA man and a woman love each other, like for the last time. Until the next.
- DirectorJean-François AsselinStarsÉmile Proulx-CloutierEugénie BeaudrySylvie De Morais-NogueiraMathieu seeks all ways to attract attention to himself. It is a matter of survival: you think of me so I am.
- DirectorAra BallStarsKennedy BrodeurMonia ChokriValérie FortinTells the hard hitting story of a woman coping with a history of being sexually abused, and the violence and tenderness which helps her leave it behind.
- DirectorJonathan Beaulieu CyrRenaud Lessard Ste-MarieStarsGabrielle ForcierSimon Landry-DesyFrancois, a young scrap-metal dealer meets up with Camille, a friend he hasn't seen for a while. Their unlikely encounter, set in a wintery Wild West landscape, will shake their convictions.
- DirectorPatrice LalibertéStarsTéo Vachon SincennesSandrine BissonStéphane F. JacquesOne night, Mathieu, 17, goes under an overpass to do a graffiti.
- DirectorTheodore UshevA surrealist journey through colors and shapes inspired by Federico García Lorca's poem "Romance". Visual poetry in the rhythm of fantastic dreams and passionate nights.
- DirectorSabuStarsMasatoshi NagaseOrakioHiroki Suzukithe film is about a man who owns a helmet which makes you reexperience your happiest moment of your live. the major in the town he lives wants to use him for his good but the man with the helmet has got other plans....
- DirectorClay LifordStarsTishuan ScottLucas NeffCourtney BandekoFreshman Neil's Vanguard stories are all he cares about...until he meets the older Julia, who pushes him to put his own fan fic online. When the website's moderator takes a special interest in Neil's work, it opens up a whole new universe.
- DirectorMasato HijikataStarsHaruka AyaseMao DaichiCharlotte Kate FoxWho among us does not spend a portion of the time daydreaming or fantasizing? The difference is that for most when it comes to romantic fantasies the subject of our thoughts is unaware of it - or at least is not a telepath. See what happens when the rich heir to a corporate throne happens to be telepathic and responds to the vivid fantasies and sentiments of an office lady working for the company.
- DirectorPedro RiveroAlberto VázquezStarsAndrea AlzuriEba OjangurenJosu CuberoThree children decide to leave their homes looking for a better life.
- DirectorPatricia RozemaStarsElliot PageEvan Rachel WoodMax MinghellaAfter a massive power outage, two sisters learn to survive on their own in their isolated woodland home.
- DirectorJean-François PouliotFrançois BrissonStarsAngela GaluppoMariloup WolfeLucinda DavisWhen winter break arrives, a boy and his friends are joined by the new girl in town for a prolonged snowball fight.
- DirectorThale PersenStarsStella StenmanBjarte TjøstheimTone Beate MostraumAn evil lord, eager to rule the Valley of Knights, steals a magic suit of armor and is determined to hunt down the young queen for the missing part, the snow-making glove. But two courageous kids from our world are coming to her rescue.
- DirectorRémi ChayéStarsChrista ThéretFéodor AtkineThomas SagolsIn 1882, a young Russian aristocrat goes on an epic adventure to find out what happened to her grandfather and save her family's reputation.
- DirectorPascale Hecquet
- DirectorJoost LieuwmaDaan VelsinkStarsAnne NeuteboomDaan VelsinkIn the car on her day off Marja has a sudden rush of panic: did she turn off the gas? And did she leave the water running? And lock the window? In her mind her imaginary mistakes grow to absurd proportions.
- DirectorDina VelikovskayaStarsPapy KapamaMaksim LitovchenkoErick ManvidilaThis story is about a mother who has given so much that it looks like she has nothing left... but the life opens up the new opportunities
- DirectorAline QuertainSylwia SzkiladzStarsLily Demuynck DeydierCharly MagonzaHe's hardly any bigger than a cockchafer. In fact, he's way too small for a fox. No wonder he'd love to be a little larger. And he already knows how to fulfill his wish. Here comes the girl with the watering can and the incredible magical seeds again. Whatever she waters, it grows, thrives and sprouts. Alas, she likes the tiny fellow just the way he is. She can pick him up and put him in her pocket. But the teeny-weeny fox isn't ready to give up yet.
- DirectorÖrs BárczyShort about an adorable, cocoa-drinking deer who is eager to tidy and shoveling in front of his house every day. However, there is a suspicious earthquake all night which causes the mess day by day and make unbearable our fella's life.
- DirectorLeevi LemmettyStarsAntti PääkkönenChristopher WilsonAn animated comedy about a group of penguins who get too greedy for their own good.
- DirectorMarjolaine Perreten
- DirectorVictor HaegelinStarsVictor HaegelinGaëlle LecornuCaptain 3D, a 20 centimeter super-hero, will be placed in a human-sized setting. He has super 3D glasses that allow him to give dimension and life to all the flat visuals around him (drawings, postcards, posters). When he looks at an horror movie poster from the 50s, he gives life to a giant octopus about to devour a pretty damsel. Driven only by his courage, he decides to save her, at the risk of his life. To do so, he must face a disproportionately big world compared to his small size, and then confront the very, very ferocious monster in the final fight. Is he going to make it ? Will he save the damzel ? Are they going to know a happy ending? Captain 3D is an unusual super-hero, brave and with big heart. Using his muscles more than his brain, he is motivated by a beautiful girl.
- DirectorJakub KourilUndersea adventure in snowy city. A short cartoon film as a homage to Jacques Cousteau.
- DirectorVerena FelsStarsNina GöldnerFalko PaeperRegina WelkerAt the edge of society, a cow tips the balance of destiny with quite some impact.
- DirectorAndreas JohnsenStarsJosh EvansRoberto FloreBen ReadeIn an effort to determine their sustainability as a food source, two chefs travel throughout the world tasting insects.
- DirectorMark HelenowskiKevin PangStarsCurtis DuffyCurtis Duffy, one of the country's most renowned chefs, is building his dream restaurant despite the nightmarish state of his personal life. The recipient of two coveted Michelin stars, Duffy has a laser focus on his cooking career that cost him his marriage and two young daughters. His ambition is to make his Chicago restaurant, Grace, the best in the country. FOR GRACE follows the building of the restaurant from concrete box to its opening night. It also revisits Duffy's turbulent childhood: how a teacher recognized talent in a troubled teenager; how an unimaginable family tragedy made Duffy seek refuge in the kitchen; and how cooking took from him as much as it gave.
- DirectorNaotarô EndôThrough the lives of professionals working at Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo, the film portrays how Tsukiji has been the center of fish culinary culture and helped Japanese food culture to flourish as we know it today.
- DirectorErik ShiraiThe Birth of Saké is a documentary that reveals the history of passionate sake makers, and what it takes to create a traditional sake at the Yoshida Brewery, a family distillery with more then 140 years of history, in northern Japan.
- DirectorShin'ya TsukamotoStarsNariaki SenbaNobu KanaokaKei FujiwaraHikari is a boy who is bullied and teased by the other boys at school because he has the odd distinction of having an electricity pole growing out of his back. However, one of his classmates, a girl named Momo, comes to his rescue. Hikari thanks her by sharing his secret possession with her: a time machine. He then activates the time machine which transports him 25 years into a dark, dystopian, world of the future. There he encounters members of the Shinsengumi Vampire Gang in the process of hunting a woman named Dr. Sariba who is revealed to be Momo's future self. She explains to Hikari that she had been long expecting his arrival from the past and that he has a crucial role to play here -- he and he alone must save the world.
- DirectorMacoto TezukaIn UNK, the son of legendary manga and anime artist Osamu Tezuka created one of the loveliest odes to both special effects cinema and the handmade 8mm aesthetic. As a young woman navigates the city, strange things begin to happen-leading her into a journey that is part science fiction and part fantasy, full of references to magical moments in cinema's past.
- DirectorMacoto TezukaTwo schoolgirls in a classroom are afraid of ghosts.
- DirectorSion SonoStarsAkira FujiwaraMichiko HidaHiromi KawanishiA story of the restrictions of family life, the desire to break free, restlessness, helplessness and the fear of becoming an adult.
- DirectorMi-sen WuStarsChia-Hui ChangPinky JuanSandrine PinnaA film probes the edges of lovers' waking nightmare - the nature of betrayal. Wan is a medical school dropout nearing his 30s who starts a relationship with an interesting and puzzling high school girl, Meow-Meo - who claims to be a lesbian.