History

World Premiere

Wide Angle

Dear My Genius
  • KOO Yunjoo
  • Korea
  • 2018
  • 81min

The director used to be a science prodigy when young. However, as an English major in the university, she is currently a job seeker after abandoning her dream of becoming a scienti...

  • 2017 AND BIFF 메세나펀드
World Premiere

Wide Angle

The Strangers
  • MYOUNG So-hee
  • Korea
  • 2018
  • 80min

In this film beginning with the line, "I have a nightmare whenever fall comes," the director visits her hometown Chuncheon after four years. Her nightmare, which seemed to end when...

A Window on Asian Cinema

Complicity
  • Kei CHIKAURA
  • Japan,China
  • 2018
  • 116min

Chen Liang leaves his hometown for Japan to improve his life, despite the disapproval of his sickly mother and elderly grandmother. Life for an illegal Chinese immigrant with a fak...

World Premiere

Wide Angle

Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of Comfort Women Issue
  • Miki Dezaki
  • United States,Japan
  • 2018
  • 120min

A Japanese-American director, who’s living in Japan and has been speaking about various issues of Japanese society through YouTube, became interested in the ‘comfort women’ issue. ...

Flash Forward

The Dig
  • Andy TOHILL,Ryan TOHILL
  • UK
  • 2018
  • 97min

After serving fifteen years for murder, Callahan returns home to find Sean, his victim’s grieving father, digging ground in search of the body in an endless bog. When Callahan asks...

World Cinema

Steel Country
  • Simon FELLOWS
  • UK
  • 2018
  • 89min

When a young boy turns up dead in a sleepy western Pennsylvania town, a local truck driver with Asperger′s Syndrome, Donald, takes it upon himself to play detective, embarking on a...

Flash Forward

Sibel
  • Ca?la ZENCIRCI,Guillaume GIOVANETTI
  • France,Germany,Luxembourg,Turkey
  • 2018
  • 95min

The film Sibel shows male-centered values dominating a community and woman’s dependency on gender roles. However, the seemingly extreme values of confrontation between the t...

  • 로카르노영화제 비평가협회상

Flash Forward

Working Woman
  • Michal AVIAD
  • Israel
  • 2018
  • 93min

Orna is an ordinary woman living a happy life with a husband and three children. But her family becomes financially unstable, and she has to look for a steady job. When she finally...

World Cinema

Domingo
  • Fellipe BARBOSA,Clara LINHART
  • Brazil
  • 2018
  • 95min

In 2003, Lula was elected president of Brazil. Laura and her two sons′ families gather to have a New Year′s party at their home in Rio Grande do Sul, the southern part of Brazil. W...

  • 베니스영화제 베니스데이즈
World Premiere

Opening Film & Closing Film

Beautiful Days
  • Jéro YUN
  • Korea,France
  • 2018
  • 104min

Zhen Chen (Jang Dong-yoon) visits Korea when his Korean-Chinese father asks to see his wife once again before he dies. When he finds his mother, she is not what he expected. Worki...

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