Special Programs in Focus

• Alexey ROMANOV
• Russia
• 2017
• 20min

The man was travelling in winter and got lost. Almost frozen to death, he finds an abandoned yurt. When he wakes up, he sees a girl named Mappa, who had looked after him until he r...

Special Programs in Focus

• Gennady BAGYNANOV
• Russia
• 2017
• 26min

Two men, who are exact opposites of each other, are competing for a woman. One of them is a hunter, a man of old patriarchal traditions, believing deeply in the spirits of waters, ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Vyacheslav SEMYONOV
• Russia
• 2017
• 20min

An apologue about a lonely old fisherman, who has spent his entire life by a large lake. He believes that the world is inhabited by spirits of nature, and he has been living in har...

Special Programs in Focus

• Prokopy NOGOVITSYN
• Russia
• 2017
• 13min

A wooden horse made by your grandfather is better than the one bought in a shop, but a real horse is always better. A dying tree can come to life with green buds. Everything is pos...

Special Programs in Focus

• Mikhail LUKACHEVSKY,Prokopy NOGOVITSYN
• Russia
• 2017
• 13min

Late fall. An old man and his grandson go to the lake with fish traps. The boy is carelessly fishing. Cold breath of winter overshadows the grandfather’s happiness, as a premonitio...

Opening Film & Closing Film

• Sylvia CHANG
• China,Taiwan
• 2017
• 120min

A dying old lady reminisces about her happier moments. Her daughter, Hui Ying, decides to move her father’s grave from his hometown to beside her mother’s grave. However, his first...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Anucha BOONYAWATANA
• Thailand
• 2017
• 94min

Director Anucha Boonyawatana’s lovers’ story unfolds with a perspective of karma and reincarnation. Shane is beautiful in body, but loved ones leave him one by one. Pich loves him,...

Gala Presentation

• KORE-EDA Hirokazu
• Japan
• 2017
• 124min

The film opens at the scene of a homicide with the murderer setting fire to a corpse. He confesses his crime shortly after, making a lawyer named Shigemori begrudgingly take the ca...

• 베니스영화제 경쟁부문

World Cinema

• SUWA Nobuhiro
• Japan,France
• 2017
• 103min

The film starts with the actor, Jean, talking with others on the shooting location, and it continues to show him with a long take for around four minutes. In the following long tak...

• 베니스영화제 오리종티

A Window on Asian Cinema

• LI Xiaofeng
• China
• 2017
• 114min

In a movie theater, a man is murdered. The victim’s step-son, Xu Feng, is placed on the list of suspects, but leaves town after being acquitted. A decade after, Detective Chen enco...