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World Premiere

Wide Angle

KIM-GUN
  • KANG Sang-woo
  • Korea
  • 2018
  • 90min

This film begins with a photo of an armed civilian in Gwangju in May 1980. Mr. Ji Man-won, a conservative commentator, claimed the North Korean military intervened in the May 18 Gw...

World Premiere

New Currents

AURORA
  • Bekzat PIRMATOV
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • 2018
  • 101min

A unique and dazzling black comedy from Kyrgyzstan. The Central Asian arthouse and independent cinema has been influenced by the Soviet cinema and history. Lately, there are a numb...

World Cinema

I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
  • Radu JUDE
  • Romania,Czech Republic,France,Bulgaria,Germany
  • 2018
  • 138min

In this satire about the Holocaust in Romania, an actress tells the camera that she will play the role of performance director Mariana Marine, and the movie follows her routine. Pr...

World Cinema

Mihkel
  • Ari Alexander ERGIS MAGNÚSSON
  • Iceland,Estonia,Norway
  • 2018
  • 100min

Mihkel boards a ferry from his small town in Estonia to Saint Petersburg in Russia, on his way to Iceland, where he wants to make a new life for himself and his fiancee, Vera. His ...

World Premiere

New Currents

Second Life
  • PARK Young-ju
  • Korea
  • 2018
  • 70min

Because she gets no love from her indifferent parents, high school student Sunhee craves popularity at school. When assigned to sit behind Jungmee, she lies to become friends with ...

World Premiere

Wide Angle

Our Happy Birth Day
  • Angel SU,Mimi CHEN
  • Taiwan
  • 2018
  • 82min

Women who experienced pregnancy and childbirth can recall how cold the delivery table was. Why should the process of giving a birth of one life be so cold and lonely? Our Happy ...

World Cinema

Loveling
  • Gustavo PIZZI
  • Brazil,Uruguay
  • 2018
  • 97min

Irene is about to finally receive her high school diploma. But she has too much on her plate to fully enjoy her accomplishment: raising four children, working on the streets for in...

World Premiere

Wide Angle

Gravity of the Tea
  • JUNG Sung-il
  • Korea
  • 2018
  • 130min

Jung Sung-il has divided his film about Im Kwon-taek into two parts. This distinction is not simply a convenient decision (due to the long running time). The stories in the first p...

World Premiere

Wide Angle

Cloud, Encore
  • JUNG Sung-il
  • Korea
  • 2018
  • 166min

Cloud, Encore is a kind of "making-of film" about the filming of Im Kwon-taek’s 102nd film Revivre. Of course, as Gravity of the Tea was not a biographical fil...

A Window on Asian Cinema

Memories of My Body
  • Garin NUGROHO
  • Indonesia
  • 2018
  • 106min

Wahyu Juno, who was abandoned in a village in Central Java, joins a Lengger dance troupe of traditional Indonesian male cross-dressers performing as female dancers. Growing up betw...

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