Panorama
Steve McQueen’s BLITZ follows the epic journey of George (Elliott Heffernan), a nine-year-old boy in World War II London whose mother Rita (Saoirse Ronan) sends him to safety in the…
Closing Night Film, Spotlight on Japan
During the late Edo period, legendary author Bakin spent an epic 28 years writing his masterpiece Nanso Hatomi Hakkenden one of Japan’s greatest works. HAKKENDEN ambitiously follows the master Bakin…
Panorama
Rio de Janeiro, early 1970s. Brazil faces the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. We are introduced to the Paivas: a father, Rubens, a mother, Eunice, and their five children.…
Pacific Showcase
Michael Jonathan’s debut feature is an action-filled account of the 1864 battle of Ōrākau where a small group of disparate Māori, vastly outnumbered by British soldiers, went to war to…
Panorama, Special Screening
An original adaptation of James Clavell’s novel, FX’s "Shōgun" is set in Japan in the year 1600 at the dawn of a century-defining civil war. Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting…
Film For Thought, Spotlight on Japan
In the 17th century, early in the Edo Period of Japanese history, trade with the indigenous Ainu is the main source of income for the Matsumae clan, which controls the…
Spotlight on India
Based on a true story, SUPERBOYS OF MALEGAON chronicles the life and work of self-made auteur Nasir Shaikh, whose no-budget, community-sourced productions turned his pals into cineastes and his hometown…
Panorama
This haunting period piece centers around the life of a wartime factory seamstress in Copenhagen who becomes pregnant by her boss in hopes of escaping her dire situation. But things…
Spotlight on Japan
Once upon a time, over a thousand years ago during the Heian period, there was a special bureau of magicians whose school trained students to become masters who would then…