Special Program in Focus

• Indonesia
• 2023
• 102min

Lala, a young diving athlete, meets with Yudhis, a handsome transfer student. Although the film’s set-up sounds like a typical teenage romance, Posesif quickly shifts gears as Lala begins to feel that Yudhis is too obsessed with h...

Special Program in Focus

• Indonesia
• 2023
• 98min

Indonesia in 2032. Gaspar, a somewhat punky amateur detective, investigates a government-involved mass slaughter case. During the process, he stumbles upon clues about his friend who disappeared without a trace during childhood an...

• 2022 APM Project

Special Program in Focus

• Indonesia
• 2023
• 24min

Vania lives in a large Chinese medicine store. She wants to be helpful to adults but is too young. On a quiet night, she finds an injured thief running away from mobs. She invites the fugitive into the store and begins to treat he...

Special Program in Focus

• United States
• 2023
• 115min

A film about a Korean-American family in search of hope, Minari premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize. It continued its success receiving numerous awards from around...

• Oscars Best Supporting Actress

Special Program in Focus

• Indonesia
• 2023
• 18min

Sura, an orphaned boy, lives a lonely life in a fishing village, earning a penny for his labor. Wandering the beach in the vague expectation that his father may return, he discovers that a broken sex doll has been washed up and tr...

• Busan International Film Festival Sonje Award

Special Program in Focus

• Indonesia
• 2023
• 15min

Basri and Salma have been married for five years. Together, they run a small amusement ride for children. Their peaceful daily routines begin to reveal small cracks in their facade of happiness, which, in turn, reveals the true re...

• Cannes Short Films Competition

Special Program in Focus

• Korea
• 2023
• 148min

Based on Murakami Haruki’s short story, “Barn Burning,” Burning is about the enigmatic relationship between three people. Jongsu meets childhood friend Haemi, who seems to be lively but somewhat hollow, and falls for her. But Haem...

• Cannes FIPRESCI Award

Special Program in Focus

• Indonesia
• 2023
• 99min

After many years of living in the city, a transgender woman has to go back to her remote hometown to attend her father’s funeral. She finds the village has changed greatly, and that the villagers have become extremely religious. S...

Special Program in Focus

• Indonesia
• 2023
• 104min

Love can bloom in unexpected places. Mouly Surya’s sophomore film takes place in a whimsical school for children with disabilities. The director creates a world of a fairy tale of young love as imagined by visually impaired teens ...

• Rotterdam NETPAC Award

Special Program in Focus

• United States/Russia
• 2023
• 102min

In San Jose, California, David Kim looks through old photographs and videos of his daughter Margot and his late wife Pamela, who died from lymphoma nearly two years earlier, after which David and Margot became distant. One night, ...

• Sundance Best of Next Audience Award