A Window on Asian Cinema

• HIROKI Ryuichi
• Japan
• 2017
• 130min

A general store teeming with various beautiful stories could be a miraculous place where past and present can talk to each other. As Namiya says, it is to identify the net. The net...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kamila ANDINI
• Indonesia,Netherlands,Australia,Qatar
• 2017
• 83min

Brother and sister Tantra and Tantri are fraternal twins. Lately Tantra has been bedridden in hospital and his brain becomes weak, almost losing consciousness. Now, there is little...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Siddartha JATLA
• India
• 2017
• 107min

Shukla, a young man from a ruined Brahmin family, gets married according to his mother’s wishes. Shukla brags about Brahmin pride, but the reality is that he is a rickshaw driver l...

Open Cinema

• Sho TSUKIKAWA
• Japan
• 2017
• 115min

The title seems horrifying, but it actually is a romance depicting the love and relationships of high school students. The screen brims with a very Japanese mood of cherry blossoms...

Open Cinema

• Akiyuki SHIMBO
• Japan
• 2017
• 90min

While cleaning up a pool with his friend Yusuke, middle school student Norimichi meets a popular girl, Nazuna. Following her suggestion, Norimichi and Yusuke have a swimming contes...

Wide Angle

• YUASA Masaaki
• Japan
• 2017
• 93min

Senpai is in love with Otome secretly. He seeks her at Ponto-cho at night, at the used book market at Shimogamo Shrine, at the university fair, meaning everywhere. But she never re...

• 포커스: 유아사 마사아키

Wide Angle

• YUASA Masaaki
• Japan
• 2017
• 112min

Kai, a young middle schooler, lives in Hinashi Town, a lonely fishing village, with his father and his grandfather, a sun-umbrella maker. He used to live in Tokyo, but after his pa...

• 포커스: 유아사 마사아키

Opening Film & Closing Film

• SHIN Suwon
• Korea
• 2017
• 117min

There’s a woman who resembles a plant. She takes pains to hide her disabled leg and silently focuses on her work. But the world will not leave her alone. Hurt and abandoned, she ta...

Gala Presentation

• JEONG Jae-eun
• Korea,Japan
• 2017
• 110min

Director Jeong Jae-eun, known for her award-winning debut feature Take Care Of My Cat, shoots her first film in Japan with actress Nakayama Miho (Love Letter). Those ...

Flash Forward

• Omoni OBOLI
• Nigeria
• 2017
• 112min

Unabashed ladies’ man Chuks?also called Terminator?revels in female attention, and is convinced that once he’s had a woman, she’s his forever. It’s Okafor’s Law. He explains this t...