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A Window on Asian Cinema

Ash is Purest White: Director′s Cut
  • Zhangke JIA
  • China,France
  • 2018
  • 136min

This is the latest film by Jia Zhangke, the director most representative of Chinese art cinema. In 2001, in Datong, Shanxi, China, local beauty Qiao Qiao and Bin, a young tough, ar...

  • 칸영화제 경쟁부문

Wide Angle

Bruce Lee and the Outlaw
  • Joost VANDEBRUG
  • UK,Netherlands,Czech Republic
  • 2018
  • 82min

A street kid, Niku, lives under the protection of the king of Bucharest’s underground world, who calls himself Bruce Lee. He propagates a strange philosophy by applying silver pain...

World Premiere

Korean Cinema Today

NAILED
  • HA Yoon-jae
  • Korea
  • 2018
  • 100min

Soonyeong and Jaegu are a couple running a garage on the country′s border. Their business is poor due to trucks traveling to and from nearby resort construction sites; cars from ot...

A Window on Asian Cinema

Ten Years Thailand
  • Aditya ASSARAT,Wisit SASANATIENG,Chulayarnnon SIRIPHOL,Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL
  • Thailand,Hong Kong,China
  • 2018
  • 93min

In 2014 in Thailand, a military coup occurred and the military regime took over. Four distinctive 21st century Thai perspectives explore how militarism penetrates and relates to e...

  • 칸영화제 특별상영

Special Programs in Focus

A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino
  • Lamberto V. AVELLANA
  • Philippines
  • 2018
  • 110min

Under 1940s American colonial rule, the Philippines’ complex upper class, embodied by a painter and his daughters, tries to hold on to its elite past in the face of war, and attemp...

Special Programs in Focus

As We Were
  • Eddie ROMERO
  • Philippines
  • 2018
  • 136min

In Colonial Philippines, after his mother’s death, naive Kulas begins his much-awaited trip to Manila. On his way to the city, he mindlessly takes on the mission of retrieving a fr...

Special Programs in Focus

Three Godless Years
  • Mario O′HARA
  • Philippines
  • 2018
  • 127min

A Filipino-Japanese soldier falls in love with a Filipina during World War II. The war shatters the idyllic life of Rosario, a schoolteacher. Captain Masugi, a Philippine-born Japa...

Special Programs in Focus

The Blacksmith
  • Ronald Allan POE Jr.
  • Philippines
  • 2018
  • 118min

Flavio’s village and land are under Lizardo’s reign. Flavio is forced to brand innocent children every night with Lizardo’s mark by the head of his men in Pilo. One day, Flavio’s p...

Special Programs in Focus

Cain and Abel
  • Lino BROCKA
  • Philippines
  • 2018
  • 111min

Dona Pina is a despotic mother who favors her younger son Elis over Lorenz, consequently stoking sibling rivalry between the brothers. Dona Pina lets Elis study in Manila while she...

Special Programs in Focus

Miracle
  • Ishmael BERNAL
  • Philippines
  • 2018
  • 125min

Coinciding with a total eclipse when people believe that the world is ending, inconsequential lass Elsa witnesses an apparition of the Virgin Mary on top of the hill where, as an i...

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