Midnight Passion

• United States
• 2023
• 91min

The Rio Grande river cuts through 1200 miles of harsh and unforgiving desert, dividing Texas from Mexico. U.S. Border agent Angel Waters comes across what would normally be a routine illegal crossing, but it quickly devolves into ...

Open Cinema

• France
• 2023
• 114min

Luc Besson revives the distinctive style of his early masterpieces Nikita (1990) and Leon (1994) with his latest dark thriller, Dogman. The movie manages to be both a taut thriller and a poignant human drama about an antihero prac...

• Venice Competition

Jiseok

• Thailand/Cambodia
• 2023
• 99min

Living in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand, Sorn occupies the lowest rungs of every social hierarchy ? belonging to the Shan ethnic group, having an undocumented immigrant status, and working as a massage therapist in a gay parlor. D...

• 2017 APM Project

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2023
• 115min

Detective Won-ho (Cho Jin-woong) risks everything to apprehend the leader of a vast drug cartel, known as ‘Mr. Lee,’ and in so doing, becomes entangled in a complex relationship with two of the organization’s prominent figures, Br...

Wide Angle

• Korea/Japan
• 2023
• 137min

Park Soo-nam, a second-generation Zainichi director, discovered that she was losing her sight just as she set out to digitally restore her 16 mm films with the assistance of her daughter, director Park Maeui. The footage, shot ove...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia
• 2023
• 114min

Ali Topan is a modern-day Romeo and Juliet fairy tale. Ali is a young boy living in the Blok M community running music events. His life is mostly in the streets. Although he is considered a delinquent, his kindness toward others m...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2023
• 102min

Gynecologist Gui-nam and his wife, Wu-hee, find themselves unable to have a child. They have a good life now, but they need to have a child to inherit the property of Wu-hee’s father. Mi-ja and Dal-soo are a poor unmarried couple ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2023
• 106min

An independent daughter moves into her mother’s house due to financial problems, and brings with her same-sex lover, Rain. Mom is left bewildered. Meanwhile, the mom, who works as a caregiver, strives to provide the best care for ...

• 2019 APM Project, 2023 ACF Post-Production Fund Recipient

Icons

• France
• 2023
• 103min

In her latest film, released after a decade-long hiatus, Breillat has remade the Danish film Queen of Hearts (2019). Anne has a sexual relationship with her stepson. Unlike her mother’s more sexually liberal generation, she consid...

• Cannes Competition

On Screen

• Korea
• 2023
• 120min

Se-hoon (Yoon Hyun-soo) is a model student with good grades, but an unfortunate incident on the bus one day earns him the humiliating nickname of ‘Erector.’ The choir director, Won-dae (Choi Woo-sung), asks him to be his running m...