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World Premiere 21 Weeks Later

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21 Weeks Later
  • 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 of the city to secretly bury the baby she miscarri...

World Premiere Christmas in Summer

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Christmas in Summer
  • Korea
  • 2023
  • 30min

Soon to be married, Eun-su heads to Gangneung to see her long-lost father. The old seaside town has changed dramatically from the one in her childhood memories. Exhausted from the sweltering heat of August, Eun-su gets into a taxi...

Talking with Rivers

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Talking with Rivers
  • Iran/United Kingdom
  • 2023
  • 50min

A compelling rumination on the history of Iran and Afghanistan, Talking with Rivers is Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s contemplative reflection on and a compilation of the works of the Makhmalbaf family. Over the image of Makhmalbaf, sitting ...

The Mother of All Lies

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The Mother of All Lies
  • Morocco/Egypt/Saudi Arabia/Qatar
  • 2023
  • 96min

El Moudir’s exploration of identity through her mother in The Postcard (2020) continues through the grandmother in her latest film, which delves into the Moroccan contemporary history through a family and the grandmother. At its c...

  • Cannes the Golden Eye Documentary Prize
World Premiere The Daughters of That Day

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The Daughters of That Day
  • Korea
  • 2023
  • 94min

After a face-to-face conversation, Yang Kyungin, who wrote a book on the Jeju Uprising, and Regine-pacis, a Rwandan student studying abroad in Korea, set off together on a journey. Despite the differences in their age, nationality...

World Premiere Flickering Lights

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Flickering Lights
  • India
  • 2023
  • 90min

In the remote village of Tora near the India-Myanmar border, there are no roads, no water supply, no schools or hospitals. Despite over seventy years of independence in India, the village has been marginalized and forgotten becaus...

International Premiere Reclaim My Summer

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Reclaim My Summer
  • 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 day, at the suggestion of a boy she likes, she tr...

World Premiere Yellow Door: ′90s Lo-fi Film Club

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Yellow Door: ′90s Lo-fi Film Club
  • Korea
  • 2023
  • 84min

Only the few members of Yellow Door have seen fellow member Bong Joon-ho’s directorial debut film Looking for Paradise, which was never released. This stop-motion animation about a gorilla leaving a dark and dirty basement to esca...

World Premiere Everybody’s Gotta Love Sometimes

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Everybody’s Gotta Love Sometimes
  • France/Myanmar/Indonesia
  • 2023
  • 15min

Two months after fleeing Myanmar and arriving in Paris, Phyo, whose status is uncertain, dreams of romance with another man. He dances freely with a sensual dancer in front of the Pont Neuf bridge, but trauma and desire become a t...

World Premiere She Wants True Love

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She Wants True Love
  • Korea
  • 2023
  • 30min

Deok-hee often ruins relationships by being excessively direct. Today, once again, P pushes her away. Amid the erratic life of a distinctly eccentric character, reality and cinematic imagination come together delicately. With enga...

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