History

World Cinema

The Last Night of Amore
  • Andrea DI STEFANO
  • Italy
  • 2023
  • 125min

Italian film noir is entering a renaissance, and Andrea Di Stefano establishes himself as a master of the movement with The Last Night of Amore. On the eve of his honorable ...

  • 베를린영화제 스페셜갈라

Gala Presentation

Monster
  • Hirokazu KORE-EDA
  • Japan
  • 2023
  • 126min

Fifth-grader, Minato, tells his mother that he has been abused by his homeroom teacher, his mother becomes enraged and goes to complain. Instead of investigating the matter thoroug...

  • 칸영화제 각본상

World Cinema

Housekeeping for Beginners
  • Goran STOLEVSKI
  • Republic of North Macedonia/Poland/Croatia/Serbia/Kosovo
  • 2023
  • 107min

In a small apartment in Skopje, a group of free-minded individuals find themselves sharing a household. When Dita’s partner Suada learns she has a terminal illness, Dita suddenly b...

  • 베니스영화제 오리종티

A Window on Asian Cinema

City of Wind
  • Lkhagvadulam PUREV-OCHIR
  • France/Mongolia/Portugal/Netherlands/Germany/Qatar
  • 2023
  • 103min

Seventeen-year-old Ze attends a modern school in Ulaanbaatar, while also leading a traditional life as a shaman and communing with ancestral spirits. Unlike his older sister, who i...

  • 베니스영화제 오리종티 남자배우상
World Premiere

Wide Angle

Dear Jinri
  • Yoonsuk JUNG
  • Korea
  • 2023
  • 101min

Choi Jinri is the real name of the South Korean celebrity known by her stage name Sulli. Using her real name in the title, Dear Jinri is the product of efforts to get to kno...

World Premiere

Korean Cinema Today

Honeysweet
  • Han LEE
  • Korea
  • 2023
  • 119min

Relationships and love don’t necessarily need dramatic obstacles. It’s more than enough to have hearts that grow closer and closer to each other. Honeysweet depicts a story ...

World Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

KYRIE
  • Shunji IWAI
  • Japan
  • 2023
  • 178min

In the Great East Japan Earthquake, a young girl named Luca loses her family and is left with a disability that prevents her from speaking properly. She can, however, make her voic...

International Premiere

Jiseok

The Moon
  • Yuya ISHII
  • Japan
  • 2023
  • 144min

Yoko is a novelist who has gained fame for her work covering the Great East Japan Earthquake, but now she is unable to write a novel. Her husband is an aspiring director who create...

A Window on Asian Cinema

A Road to A Village
  • Nabin SUBBA
  • Nepal
  • 2023
  • 106min

In a village nestled at the foot of the Himalayas in eastern Nepal, a skilled craftsman named Maila leads a humble but happy life with his wife, Maili, and seven-year-old son, Bind...

  • 토론토영화제 센터피스

Special Program in Focus

Past Lives
  • Celine SONG
  • United States/Korea
  • 2023
  • 105min

Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea to Canada. Two decades later, they are reunited in New Y...

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