Wide Angle

• Rein MAYCHAELSON
• Indonesia
• 2023
• 15min

Frustrated by their parents’ impending divorce, two sisters escape their oppressive home environment and spend time alone to reminisce about their childhood. The choice between mom...

Wide Angle

• Nasrin MOHAMMADPOUR
• Iran
• 2023
• 14min

At twenty-one weeks pregnant, a woman decides to have an abortion? which is both legally and religiously forbidden?despite her husband’s objections. She travels to different parts ...

Wide Angle

• Xinyan CHEN,Jingchen ZHANG
• China
• 2023
• 21min

Liang Fei, a middle-aged man, rides a roller coaster for the first time in his life just before the city is locked down due to the pandemic. When he hears about a leopard that esca...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Dominic SANGMA
• India/China/Qatar/Switzerland/Netherlands
• 2023
• 127min

While catching cicadas in the middle of the night with other villagers, Mangkungchi suddenly vanishes. Believing the rumors that he has been kidnapped by organ traffickers, Kasan’s...

• 로카르노영화제 현재의감독경쟁

Wide Angle

• Jinwook SONG
• Korea
• 2023
• 22min

Na-eun and Yeon-su live together in a small room. For two hours a day, Yeon-su becomes invisible. The man who keeps on vanishing, the woman left behind. Throughout this enigmatic a...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Naoko OGIGAMI
• Japan
• 2023
• 120min

“Japan’s ranking in the Global Gender Gap index is 116th out of 146 countries. We remain a male-dominated society. Many households still uphold the old traditions where the men go ...

Wide Angle

• Niranjan Raj BHETWAL
• Nepal
• 2023
• 15min

As Sridhar prepares for his coming-of-age celebration, his grandfather tells him a shocking story about his family. As he pushes for the truth, his mother is caught in a dilemma be...

Wide Angle

• Sara DOLATABADI
• France/Switzerland/Iran
• 2023
• 83min

Director Sara Dolatabadi captured the time she spent with her parents in the family garden on the outskirts of Tehran. On the surface, the film appears to be a family drama, but th...

Wide Angle

• Hao-wei CHEN
• Taiwan
• 2023
• 29min

The life of seventeen-year-old Xuan is anything but ordinary: She lives and works with her mother and sister in a recycling center surrounded by things others have thrown away. One...

New Currents

• Chee Sum CHIA
• Malaysia/Singapore/France
• 2023
• 90min

A mother and a daughter secretly meet once every few weeks on a secluded staircase in an old apartment building. The mother, an undocumented Vietnamese in Malaysia, believes that h...