New Currents

• Japan
• 2023
• 137min

What happened in September 1923? This movie explores the tragedy that followed the Great Kanto Earthquake. In the aftermath of the Great Kanto Earthquake, rumors spread that Koreans had poisoned the wells, leading to the massacre ...

• 2022 APM Project

New Currents

• Korea
• 2023
• 138min

First-year high school student Da-young is required to write about her summer vacation as an assignment. She chooses to write about her relationship and conflicts with her boyfriend, Byung-hoon, who is in the same grade. When she ...

New Currents

• Bangladesh/Canada
• 2023
• 92min

Moju, a middle-aged man living in a Bangladeshi fishing village, trains rigorously for boli, a traditional form of wrestling in Bangladesh. He challenges Dofor, the village’s boli champion. The villagers mock him and call him craz...

New Currents

• Korea
• 2023
• 101min

Youngjin, a public service worker, seems a bit quirky. The social welfare worker, Jinhyun, who is responsible for Youngjin, appears sarcastic at first glance but actually has a warm heart. When Jinhyun finds out that Youngjin has ...

New Currents

• China
• 2023
• 93min

Soon-to-be married Mak Yuen-ting leaves for Hong Kong in search of her father, who left twenty years before. Her father, Mak Ka-fai, had come to Guangzhou for work, met Yuen-ting’s mother, married, and lived with her for ten years...

New Currents

• Thailand
• 2023
• 93min

Solids by the Seashore marks the directorial debut of Patiparn Boontarig, who served as the assistant director for Manta Ray (2018) and Anatomy of Time (2021). Various artificial structures are being constructed to safeguard the e...

• 2023 ACF Post-Production Fund Recipient

New Currents

• Bangladesh
• 2023
• 80min

Kajol lives in a rural village with his mother Kahinoor and his ailing grandmother, who suffers from dementia. He has a secret?he enjoys putting on his mother’s clothes and lipstick to play. One day, someone abruptly arrives at hi...

New Currents

• India
• 2023
• 98min

Filmmaker Kabir arrives in Varanasi, the spiritual capital of Hinduism with a history dating back to ancient times. Kabir begins to film Durga, who works at a crematorium by the Ganges, and Amma, who awaits death in Varanasi to br...

• 2023 ACF Post-Production Fund Recipient

New Currents

• Japan
• 2023
• 127min

Sanae goes to prison after she fails in an attempt to murder her boyfriend. Six years later, she meets and marries Kenta, a forestry worker. Their marriage takes a new turn when the wife of Sanae’s ex-boyfriend shows up at the doo...

New Currents

• 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 her daughter’s best future lies in living with a Ma...