New Currents

• Iran
• 2018
• 87min

Reza is a gold runner who delivers gold pieces after work to retailers. Delivering the gold as usual one day, a group of gangs hit him and steal the gold pieces. The owner of the retail business demands paying back, but Reza has n...

New Currents

• 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 Eelam. During the civil war, two villages?one Tam...

New Currents

• Korea
• 2018
• 139min

House of Hummingbird is about 14-year-old Eunhee. In 1994, when Seongsu Bridge collapsed, Eunhee lives with her parents and older siblings in Daechidong. Her family doesn’t seem to be particularly caring, and Eunhee and her best f...

• 2018 ACF Post-Production Fund

New Currents

• Bhutan,Germany,Nepal
• 2018
• 85min

Sangai, a teenage girl living with her father in a village of inland Bhutan, is not happy with her father, who makes wooden phalluses, believed to have mysterious power, and playing a festival clown with a red mask at a local fest...

New Currents

• China
• 2018
• 93min

In a city in southern China, there has been no rain during the summer. A girl taking a summer vacation is struggling with essay homework, but she has no idea about what to write. Her mother’s ordinary routine is to nag at her idle...

New Currents

• Korea
• 2018
• 70min

Because she gets no love from her indifferent parents, high school student Sunhee craves popularity at school. When assigned to sit behind Jungmee, she lies to become friends with her. She must keep up the lie to keep up appearanc...

New Currents

• Japan
• 2018
• 113min

Middle-aged widower Tetsuro finds an unconscious young man on a river bank. When the man wakes up he says his name is ‘Shinichi’, but nothing more. It is apparent that Shinichi tried to commit suicide, so Tetsuro provides him shel...

• APM 2017

New Currents

• China
• 2018
• 111min

Mt. Baekdu, heavy with snow in the middle of winter. It is said that many ethnic Koreans still live near the snow-covered mountain. A policeman waiting for his transfer and a group of criminals trying to escape from the area after...

New Currents

• Kyrgyzstan
• 2018
• 101min

A unique and dazzling black comedy from Kyrgyzstan. The Central Asian arthouse and independent cinema has been influenced by the Soviet cinema and history. Lately, there are a number of interesting and outstanding films coming up ...

New Currents

• Korea
• 2018
• 104min

After losing her son, Jungjoo loses all hope in life, drinking and smoking her life away. She tries to overcome the pain by attending church and praying diligently to no avail. Then one day, she meets Mingoo, a convicted criminal,...