History

World Premiere

Korean Cinema Today

CICADA
  • LEE Chungryoul
  • Korea
  • 2020
  • 122min

CICADA is the feature film debut for director Lee Chungryoul who directed the documentary Old Partner (2009). The story revolves around a master of the traditional fu...

World Premiere

Korean Cinema Today

Short Vacation
  • KWON Min-pyo,SEO Hansol
  • Korea
  • 2020
  • 79min

Four first-grade middle school students in the same class are members of a photography club. Before leaving for summer break, the teacher hands out an old-fashioned analog camera t...

World Premiere

Wide Angle

Self-portrait 2020
  • LEE Dongwoo
  • Korea
  • 2020
  • 168min

Director Lee Dongwoo of No Money, No Future (2016), created his second film with the main character of a homeless man he met at Tapgol Park in Jongno. One morning, this home...

World Premiere

Wide Angle

Fear(less) and Dear
  • Anson Hoi Shan MAK
  • Hong Kong,China
  • 2020
  • 106min

A woman is giving a performance titled “Egging, with 1,000 eggs” in a plaza. This performance of breaking eggs on her own body doesn’t seem to attract people’s attention for long. ...

World Premiere

World Cinema

My Favorite War
  • Ilze BURKOVSKA JACOBSEN
  • Norway,Latvia
  • 2020
  • 82min

An animation about the contemporary history of Latvia told through the director’s personal memories. A girl, growing up in the Soviet Union, tries to become the best student by obe...

  • 안시영화제 콘트레샴상
International Premiere

Flash Forward

Emptiness
  • Paul VENEGAS
  • Ecuador,Uruguay
  • 2020
  • 93min

Lei and Wong arrive at a port city in Ecuador in the same boat. She plans to continue her journey to New York to fulfill her “China Dream” whereas he wants to settle down and bring...

World Premiere

Korean Cinema Today

Days of Green
  • SHIN Dong-il
  • Korea
  • 2020
  • 90min

A young man (Kim Jinyeop) is eking out a living driving a taxi while being chased by moneylenders. A young woman (Lee Seol) just ran out of her father’s funeral. Days of Green

World Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

WHERE IS PINKI
  • Prithvi KONANUR
  • India
  • 2020
  • 108min

When Bindu returns home on her way to work to retrieve something she’d forgotten, her eight-month-old daughter Pinki and the nanny Sannamma are missing, and her house is full of sm...

International Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Drowning in Holy Water
  • Navid MAHMOUDI
  • Afghanistan,Iran
  • 2020
  • 85min

A young Afghan couple is trying to leave Afghanistan and to exile to Europe from Afghanistan in a hope to find a better life. To execute this plan, they first illegally arrive in I...

World Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Killer Spider
  • Ebrahim IRAJZAD
  • Iran
  • 2020
  • 97min

Saeed, the most common man in his 40s, has a devout devotion. One day, when his wife is mistaken for a prostitute by a taxi driver, and is sexually harassed, he is caught in anger ...

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