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International Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

CITIZEN JAKE
  • Mike DE LEON
  • Philippines
  • 2018
  • 137min

This is the first film by director Mike De Leon, who has been working since the 1970s and has released numerous controversial works, in 18 years. As Francis Joseph A. Cruz mentione...

Asian Premiere

BUSAN Classic

Black Peter
  • Milos FORMAN
  • Czech Republic
  • 1964
  • 90min

The first feature film completed in Czechoslovakia by director Milos Forman, the digitally restored film chronicles somewhat introverted and timid Czech boy Peter′s meaningless dai...

World Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Bhonsle
  • Devashish MAKHIJA
  • India
  • 2018
  • 134min

Bhonsle comes from a noble class and stubbornly refuses to engage with other people. He’s a longtime veteran policeman, but lacks sympathy for others. One day, he gets new neighbor...

World Premiere

New Currents

House of My Fathers
  • Suba SIVAKUMARAN
  • SriLanka
  • 2018
  • 95min

The Sri Lankan civil war triggered by the massacre of Tamils has engraved a devastating memory of bloody conflict between the Sri Lankan military and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil...

Asian Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

A Family Tour
  • YING Liang
  • Taiwan,Hong Kong,China,Singapore,Malaysia
  • 2018
  • 107min

Because of films criticizing the Chinese government, director Yang can’t make films in China anymore and has been living in Hong Kong for five years like as a political refugee. Wi...

Asian Premiere

Midnight Passion

Arctic
  • Joe PENNA
  • Iceland
  • 2018
  • 97min

The film follows a man stranded in the Arctic, who is finally about to receive his long awaited rescue. But the helicopter that finally finds him crashes to the ground, the pilot i...

  • 칸영화제 미드나잇 스크리닝
Korea Premiere

World Cinema

Cold War
  • Pawel PAWLIKOWSKI
  • Poland,UK,France
  • 2018
  • 90min

Victor researches and collects folk music. He meets Zula at an audition at the National Academy of Arts. Her energy and boldness make him feel something special, and soon they are ...

  • 칸영화제 감독상
Asian Premiere

Wide Angle

Dead Souls
  • Bing WANG
  • France,Switzerland
  • 2018
  • 507min

Mao Zedong’s era was called the “Great Leap Forward” but in China’s modern history, the era ended with a “great famine.” In 1957, the country’s Baihua movement faced criticism. Reg...

  • 칸영화제 특별상영
World Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

They Sing up on the Hill
  • Bat-Amgalan LKHAGVAJAV,Ian ALLARDYCE
  • Mongolia,UK
  • 2018
  • 85min

They Sing up on the Hill is a film that expands the perception of what Mongol means in the world. Instead of ambitiously revealing the whole of Mongolia, or the entirety of ...

World Premiere

Wide Angle

ARMY
  • Kelvin Kyungkun PARK
  • Korea
  • 2018
  • 89min

Korea is the only divided country in the world. Almost all men with South Korean nationality are required to serve in the military according to the military service law in Korea. T...

  • 2014 AND 영산펀드
Busan Office 3rd Floor, BIFF HILL, Busan Cinema Center, 120, Suyeonggangbyeon-daero, Haeundae-gu, Busan 48058, Korea
Seoul Office #1601, GARDEN TOWER, 84, Yulgok-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul 03131, Korea
Busan Office 3rd Floor, BIFF HILL, Busan Cinema Center, 120, Suyeonggangbyeon-daero, Haeundae-gu, Busan 48058, Korea
Seoul Office #1601, GARDEN TOWER, 84, Yulgok-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul 03131, Korea