History

Special Programs in Focus

Morals
  • Marilou DIAZ-ABAYA
  • Philippines
  • 2018
  • 141min

Morals follows the fractious lives of four desperate women in what has not only become one of the watershed films, but perhaps one of the first thoroughly feminist statement...

Special Programs in Focus

Third World Hero
  • Mike DE LEON
  • Philippines
  • 2018
  • 94min

As a film marrying satire and documentary, more than a century after his death, two filmmakers struggle to make sense of the mystery that surrounds the events of the last day in th...

Special Programs in Focus

The 1970s
  • Chito S. ROÑO
  • Philippines
  • 2018
  • 134min

Despite their distinct differences, the Bartolomes are struggling to keep their family intact during the dark times of Philippine Martial Law. Amanda is the mother of five children...

Special Programs in Focus

The Dream of Eleutaria
  • Remton Siega ZUASOLA
  • Philippines
  • 2018
  • 90min

Set against the backdrop of the enigmatic Baliw-Baliw festival, Terya, a young woman from a poor Philippine fishing village, is about to board a ship to marry an old German man she...

A Window on Asian Cinema

The Day I Lost My Shadow
  • Soudade KAADAN
  • Syria,Lebanon,France,Qatar
  • 2018
  • 91min

The Day I Lost My Shadow is the first feature film by Syrian documentary director Soudade KAADAN, and the winner of the Lion of the Future at Venice in 2018. In Damascus in ...

  • 2013 ACF 인큐베이팅펀드, The Future of Lion 최우수데뷔작
World Premiere

Wide Angle

Littleboy 12725
  • KIM Jigon
  • Korea
  • 2018
  • 102min

On the 6th of August 1945, the world’s first nuclear bomb “Little boy” is dropped on Hiroshima. The film title is about Kim Hyeong-ryul who has become a “little boy” because of the...

World Premiere

Korean Cinema Today

The Snob
  • SHIN Aga,LEE Sang-cheol
  • Korea
  • 2018
  • 108min

Seon Woojung is an artist who plagiarizes other people′s works and lives on them with a plausible expression ‘borrowing’. One day, she is offered a special exhibition by a company,...

World Premiere

Wide Angle

The Children Gone to Poland
  • CHOO Sangmee
  • Korea
  • 2018
  • 78min

The director happens to find out the fact that thousands of North Korean war orphans were sent to the Eastern European during the Korean War, and teachers at a small rural school w...

World Premiere

Korean Cinema Today

night light
  • KIM Mooyoung
  • Korea
  • 2018
  • 108min

One cold winter, Hee-tae is diagnosed as terminally ill. He receives a letter from his ex-wife who divorced him and left 10 years ago. She wants their son, Min-sang′s name to be re...

World Premiere

Korean Cinema Today

Pray
  • KANG Donghun
  • Korea
  • 2018
  • 108min

Taewook (Park Hyukkwon), a pastor with serious economic difficulties, works as a chauffeur every night, but it’s still hard to make rent. Then his wife Jeong-in (Ryu Hyunkyung) tel...

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