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World Premiere

New Currents

Ashwatthama
  • Pushpendra SINGH
  • India,Korea
  • 2017
  • 120min

Ishvaku is enjoying his vacation at home and is immersed in Ashwatthama, the warrior from the Indian myth “Mahabharata” told by his mother every night. Lord Krishna curses Ashwatth...

  • 2017 ACF 후반작업지원펀드
World Premiere

Flash Forward

Upside Down
  • Hugo MARTINS
  • Portugal
  • 2017
  • 71min

As thousands in Lisbon march against austerity measures, jobless and lonely Susana joins the protest but can’t escape from her solitude. Meanwhile, listless Jorge lives with his mo...

World Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Goodbye Kathmandu
  • Nabin SUBBA
  • Nepal
  • 2017
  • 133min

This movie tells the story of three young men living in Katmandu, Nepal, during the civil war in winter 2004. While Maoist rebels are at war with government forces, the livelihoods...

A Window on Asian Cinema

A Letter to the President​
  • Roya SADAT
  • Afghanistan
  • 2017
  • 83min

Sentenced to death for murdering her husband, Soraya writes a long letter to her country’s president requesting a special pardon. This letter, which is as long as a novel, is repea...

International Premiere

Flash Forward

Head. Two Ears
  • Vitaly SUSLIN
  • Russia
  • 2017
  • 78min

In a snow-covered village lives the shepherd Ivan. Every morning he cleans up the manure and feeds the cows. One winter morning, a stranger arrives in the village in an expensive c...

World Premiere

New Currents

Somewhere Beyond the Mist
  • King Wai CHEUNG
  • Hong Kong,China
  • 2017
  • 86min

Angela is a cop in charge of the murder of a married couple. Her father, who suffers dementia, has always been a pain in her neck. Sensitive from pregnancy, Angela discovers strang...

A Window on Asian Cinema

Beyond the Clouds
  • Majid MAJIDI
  • India
  • 2017
  • 120min

Iranian director Majid Majidi, famous for Children of Heaven, is indulged in India. After finishing a movie set in Mumbai, India, he announced plans to make his second movie...

World Cinema

Good Manners
  • Marco DUTRA,Juliana ROJAS
  • Brazil,France
  • 2017
  • 135min

Coming from the slums of Sao Paulo, Clara begins to work as a nanny and housekeeper for the wealthy, unwed mother Ana. Ana is a first skeptical of Clara as a nanny, but becomes mor...

World Cinema

The Confession
  • Zaza URUSHADZE
  • Georgia,Estonia
  • 2017
  • 89min

Priest Giorgi, a former film director, is sent to serve the small parish in the mountain village. To bring villagers closer to church he starts showing films there. After the scree...

Flash Forward

Men Don’t Cry
  • Alen DRLJEVI?
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina,Slovenia,Croatia,Germany
  • 2017
  • 100min

The armed conflicts of the 1990s not only visibly destroyed the land of the former Yugoslavia, but also left the deepest wounds in the memory of each of its belligerent nations. Th...

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