History

International Premiere Ten Years Taiwan

A Window on Asian Cinema

Ten Years Taiwan
  • Taiwan,Hong Kong,China
  • 2018
  • 108min

What will our lives be like 10 years from now? Five up and coming Taiwanese directors each offer their own take answering this question. In 2028, Taiwan is suffering from nuclear waste (“The Can of Anido”), migrant workers (“942”)...

World Premiere Ten Years Japan

A Window on Asian Cinema

Ten Years Japan
  • Japan,Hong Kong,China
  • 2018
  • 98min

Ten Years Japan succeeds the famous Ten Years produced in 2015 in Hong Kong as part of the Ten Years International Project to premiere in Busan. Executive produced by one of the most renowned directors working today, Kore-eda Hiro...

Ten Years Thailand

A Window on Asian Cinema

Ten Years Thailand
  • Thailand,Hong Kong,China
  • 2018
  • 93min

In 2014 in Thailand, a military coup occurred and the military regime took over. Four distinctive 21st century Thai perspectives explore how militarism penetrates and relates to everyday life. The seemingly peaceful social order ...

A Twelve-Year Night

World Cinema

A Twelve-Year Night
  • Spain,Argentina,Uruguay,France
  • 2018
  • 122min

In Uruguay under the military dictatorship, in September 1973 the Tupamaros guerrilla group that fights against the military government breaks down and all the key members are imprisoned. One day they are secretly transferred to a...

Turning 18

Wide Angle

Turning 18
  • Taiwan
  • 2018
  • 87min

The two girls meet in a vocational training program. Growing up in a poor indigenous family, Chen had to take care of her seven brothers and sisters instead of her mother. Although she misses her mother while being separated from ...

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3 FACES

A Window on Asian Cinema

3 FACES
  • Iran
  • 2018
  • 100min

A famous actor and director visit a mountain village to reveal the authenticity of a video sent by a young girl. The visit confirms the issues of gender, rural conservatism, different languages, and so on. However, the social and ...

Third World Hero

Special Programs in Focus

Third World Hero
  • Philippines
  • 2018
  • 94min

As a film marrying satire and documentary, more than a century after his death, two filmmakers struggle to make sense of the mystery that surrounds the events of the last day in the life of the Filipino hero Jose Rizal. Their atte...

The 1970s

Special Programs in Focus

The 1970s
  • Philippines
  • 2018
  • 134min

Despite their distinct differences, the Bartolomes are struggling to keep their family intact during the dark times of Philippine Martial Law. Amanda is the mother of five children who is also trying to find her identity and purpo...

Capernaum

A Window on Asian Cinema

Capernaum
  • Lebanon,United States
  • 2018
  • 125min

12-year-old Zain is in a juvenile prison for stabbing someone with a knife, but he wants to sue his parents. With neither an official registered identification card nor birth certificate, he doesn’t even know his birthdate. When t...

World Premiere Similitude

Wide Angle

Similitude
  • India
  • 2018
  • 8min

Amyra is in a car accident, and her life is turned upside down when her heart is filled with crazy thoughts. This psychological horror film brings extreme fear to the audience with only the tension of atmosphere and sound, without...

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