History

Midnight Passion

What Keeps You Alive
  • Colin MINIHAN
  • Canada
  • 2018
  • 99min

On the eve of their one-year wedding anniversary, Jules and Jackie become embroiled in a merciless fight for their lives when they find themselves pitted against the most unexpecte...

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Turning 18
  • HO Chao-ti
  • Taiwan
  • 2018
  • 87min

The two girls meet in a vocational training program. Growing up in a poor indigenous family, Chen had to take care of her seven brothers and sisters instead of her mother. Although...

  • 2016 AND BNK 부산은행펀드

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ON THE BORDER
  • WEI Shujun
  • China
  • 2018
  • 15min

Hua Mingxing is a Korean-Chinese boy living in a border village, whose father is always disappearing. He goes to a nail shop his father had apparently frequented to find him. When ...

  • 칸영화제 심사위원 특별언급
World Premiere

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Waves Interrupted
  • Dimon John
  • SriLanka
  • 2018
  • 13min

While getting ready to go home after a long day of work, the main character drops her hearing aid in the sink. Once wet, it stops working, and everything in the otherwise normal ni...

World Premiere

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Habitat
  • HONG Eui-jeong
  • Korea
  • 2018
  • 17min

After sudden unification, the Korean peninsula is struggling with economic chaos. An old laborer, Chan-ki, receives a new high-tech telephone from his son in China and goes to seek...

World Premiere

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Chasing Paper
  • Shoki Lin
  • Singapore
  • 2018
  • 16min

A high school student is at her most sensitive because of her grades. Her mother suddenly loses her job, and finds work as a janitor at her high school. Things become increasingly ...

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The Crying of Tanbur
  • Anisa Sabiri
  • Tajikistan
  • 2018
  • 25min

1992. Many in Tajikistan have been killed, injured, or disappeared due to the Soviet civil war. Umed’s father is among the missing, after leaving to report on the war. One day a le...

International Premiere

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Tokyo 21st October
  • Hiroshi OKUYAMA
  • Japan
  • 2018
  • 12min

Fifty-two-year-old Sakiko visits her son living in Tokyo. As she has dinner with him in a sushi restaurant with a strange server, she speaks ill of her mother-in-law and gets angry...

World Premiere

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Road to Her
  • CHO Jeehoon
  • Korea
  • 2018
  • 29min

Chong-whan goes to visit his hometown to commemorate the anniversary of his mother’s death. On the way, he happens to come across and accompanies Suji who goes to the same school w...

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Down There
  • YANG Zhengfan
  • China,France
  • 2018
  • 11min

A woman’s desperate scream is heard on a summer night. Residents of the apartment building wonder at the sound, but ignore it. What happens down there becomes something that never ...

  • 베니스영화제 오리종티
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