New Currents

• Japan
• 2024
• 126min

Can a person be born anew? Kaneko’s Commissary is a work that examines what it means to be human from various aspects and strives to find hope for people. Kaneko, imprisoned for violence, was a man who would get angry even at his ...

New Currents

• China
• 2024
• 99min

On the night of a major earthquake, train driver Li attends his elementary school class reunion to see friends he hasn’t seen in years. There, he reconnects with Song Qian, who remembers the story A Water Monster that Li wrote as ...

• 2024 ACF Post-Production Fund Recipient

New Currents

• Iran
• 2024
• 87min

Sometimes what is so precious to a person can be an object of transaction and fraud for others. It would be nice if people could control their greed, but the world doesn’t offer such kindness. Especially if someone lacks power and...

New Currents

• Indonesia/Philippines/Taiwan/Qatar
• 2024
• 99min

May has lost everything. Now, she lives a self-sustaining life in a shabby house floating on the sea. Long ago, she lived on land with her family as a Dayak native, but due to mining development, she lost her land and was rescued ...

• 2021 APM Project

New Currents

• Korea
• 2024
• 108min

Thirteen-year-old Su-yeon is left alone after her grandmother passes away. Su-yeon’s friends and neighbors, whom she hoped would take her in, gradually turn their backs on her. Faced with being placed in a childcare facility if sh...

New Currents

• Kazakhstan
• 2024
• 120min

Set in Southern Kazakhstan after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1993, Abel tells the story of a shepherd who faces new hardships when his collective farm is disbanded. When the farm where Abel spent his entire life herding sh...

• 2020 APM Project

New Currents

• Korea
• 2024
• 114min

One night, a young sailor disappears. The old captain reports that the sailor fell into the sea, causing an uproar in the village. The sailor’s mother waits by the dock every day for her son to return. It soon comes to light that ...

New Currents

• Myanmar/Korea/Singapore/France/Norway/Qatar
• 2024
• 74min

MA ? Cry of Silence is a story about Mi-Thet, an 18-year-old woman. She becomes the head of the household in Myanmar, a country that has gone through a humanitarian crisis following a coup d’etat, experiencing the collapse of her ...

New Currents

• Japan
• 2024
• 100min

Du Jie, who had been in the spotlight as a cinematographer for blockbuster commercial films in China such as No Man’s Land (2013), SAVAGE (2018), and Moon Man (2022), emigrated to Japan three years ago where he completed his direc...

New Currents

• Hong Kong, China
• 2024
• 112min

Jing’s day begins with a graceful tracking shot that follows her from the early morning as she pumps breast milk, leaves her baby with her mother-in-law, and heads to the bakery where she works. Her baby daughter Qing is difficult...