A Window on Asian Cinema

• Shujun WEI
• China
• 2023
• 101min

In a small rural village in China in the 1990s, an olderly woman who raises geese is murdered. The prime suspect is arrested?a homeless man called the “madman,” whom the old woman ...

• 칸영화제 주목할만한시선

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Li-Da HSU
• Taiwan
• 2023
• 140min

A girl shows her trust of a boy by showing him a dead fetus in a jar. Her relationship with the soccer coach she once loved left her haunted by the agony of murder. The boy, who de...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Phuttiphong AROONPHENG
• France/Thailand
• 2023
• 106min

Born to an American father and a Thai mother, Jimmy has chosen a simply life over the glamourous existence of a pop star. He visits the hotel where he spent his childhood, intendin...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kyoshi SUGITA
• Japan
• 2023
• 84min

Following the Sound is the fourth feature from director Sugita Kyoshi, known for Listen to Light (2017) and Haruhara-san’s Recorder (2021). It is a work that f...

• 베니스영화제 베니스데이즈

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Lkhagvadulam PUREV-OCHIR
• France/Mongolia/Portugal/Netherlands/Germany/Qatar
• 2023
• 103min

Seventeen-year-old Ze attends a modern school in Ulaanbaatar, while also leading a traditional life as a shaman and communing with ancestral spirits. Unlike his older sister, who i...

• 베니스영화제 오리종티 남자배우상

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Shunji IWAI
• Japan
• 2023
• 178min

In the Great East Japan Earthquake, a young girl named Luca loses her family and is left with a disability that prevents her from speaking properly. She can, however, make her voic...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Nabin SUBBA
• Nepal
• 2023
• 106min

In a village nestled at the foot of the Himalayas in eastern Nepal, a skilled craftsman named Maila leads a humble but happy life with his wife, Maili, and seven-year-old son, Bind...

• 토론토영화제 센터피스

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Ali AHMADZADEH
• Iran/Germany
• 2023
• 99min

Critical Zone is the sensational film that won the Golden Leopard at Locarno despite the Iranian government banning its director from leaving the country and attempting to c...

• 로카르노영화제 황금표범상

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Saurav RAI
• India/Nepal
• 2023
• 114min

The film opens with a rather shocking scene and quickly transitions to the everyday life of the beloved Guras. A nine-year-old girl living in a mountainous village near Darjeeling,...

• 카를로비바리영화제 프록시마 심사위원특별상