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The WFF’s official opening selection is a self-funded 80-minute documentary filmed over a period of four years. Director Krissada Tipchaimeta's touching look at the meaning of love follows Grandpa Somboon, an elderly man living in Ayutthaya caring for his wife from an arranged marriage, who suffers from acute kidney failure. Also showing at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.

 

Taiwan-based Burmese director Midi Z’s third feature film depicts the struggle faced by young ethnic Chinese living in Northern Myanmar, who are forced to escape economic hardship through drug-dealing. Taiwan’s entry to the Best Foreign Language category at the Oscars.

 

Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, nominated for the Palme d’Or, and one of the heavyweight entries at the Oscars this year. The film follows a single mother raising her troubled son, who one day receives help from a mysterious neighbour. In French.

 

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GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE 3D (FRANCE), directed by Jean-Luc Godard

Sharing the Jury Prize with Mommy, Godard’s experimental 3D film received a round of applause mid-screening at Cannes this year. It tells the story of a stray dog’s encounter with a married woman and single man as they form a volatile relationship.

 

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Winner of the Best Screenplay Award at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. A family drama illustrating a complicated relationship between a father and son who are both professors at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

 

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The wealthy son of a dystopian city’s ruler attempts to break down class divisions in a society divided between workers and industrialists. Fritz Lang’s sci-fi masterpiece is considered one of cinema’s landmark moments.

 

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The winner of the Grand Prix Miami International Film Festival is a charming coming-of-age story about a divorced father and his two estranged children. Vacationing in Uruguay, they become stuck due to seemingly never-ending rain.

 

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Based on the lead actress’s autobiography, the film follows Aviya and her mother in the summer of 1951, during the harsh early years of the Israeli state.

The festival closes with a Japanese animation based on The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, a piece of Japanese folklore about a princess who was discovered in a piece of bamboo the size of a finger.