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Korean Cinema Today

The Spy Gone North
  • YOON Jong-bin
  • Korea
  • 2018
  • 137min

The Spy Gone North is based on a true story about a South Korean spy codenamed Black Venus. In 1993, the National Security Agency (NSA) obtains North Korea’s nuclear develop...

  • 칸영화제 미드나잇 스크리닝

Korean Cinema Today

Our Body
  • HAN Ka-ram
  • Korea
  • 2018
  • 96min

Preparing for the civil service exam for 8 years, Ja-young is getting exhausted by her continued attempts to pass it. After fighting with her mother who has been supporting her, sh...

Midnight Passion

Halloween
  • David Gordon GREEN
  • United States
  • 2018
  • 108min

On Halloween night in 1978, escaped psychopath Michael Myers visited the people of Haddonfield, Illinois, and went on a killing spree, brutally murdering five people. Only one of M...

World Cinema

First Man
  • Damien CHAZELLE
  • United States
  • 2018
  • 135min

The riveting story of NASA’s mission to land the first man on the moon, focusing on legendary astronaut Neil Armstrong in the years 1961 to 1969, leading up to the Apollo 11 missio...

  • 베니스영화제 개막작

Wide Angle

The Fight
  • Marco BELLOCCHIO
  • Italy
  • 2018
  • 14min

It is a sunny day on the river Trebbia. In the distance a patrol of German soldiers is approaching: they are Nazis, guns blazing. It seems like they are chasing somebody. Tonino is...

A Window on Asian Cinema

Asako I&II
  • Ryusuke HAMAGUCHI
  • Japan
  • 2018
  • 119min

Asako’s life feels empty and banal after her first love Baku suddenly disappeared 2 years ago. She’s attracted to Ryohei who looks like Baku but has a totally different personality...

  • 칸영화제 경쟁부문
World Premiere

Flash Forward

Urgent
  • Mohcine BESRI
  • Switzerland,Morocco
  • 2018
  • 85min

A man stands perilously against the wind on a bridge rail. He jumps and ends up in hospital with a fractured bone. Driss and his wife Zahra visit the hospital with their sick son A...

International Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

The Song of the Tree
  • Aibek DAIYRBEKOV
  • Kyrgyzstan,Russia
  • 2018
  • 93min

The Song of the Tree is Kyrgyzstan’s very first musical film. It is based on a legendary but true event that took place in the 18th century in the Tien Shan Mountains. In T...

World Premiere

Korean Cinema Today

Memories of a Dead End
  • CHOI Hyunyoung
  • Korea,Japan
  • 2018
  • 90min

Yumi (Choi Sooyoung) is going on a trip to Nagoya, Japan. She plans to surprise her boyfriend, who promised to marry her, working there. But it is another woman waiting for her in ...

World Premiere

New Currents

The Red Phallus
  • Tashi GYELTSHEN
  • Bhutan,Germany,Nepal
  • 2018
  • 85min

Sangai, a teenage girl living with her father in a village of inland Bhutan, is not happy with her father, who makes wooden phalluses, believed to have mysterious power, and playin...

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