History

Wide Angle

Last Order
  • Joji Villanueva Alonso
  • Philippines,Singapore
  • 2018
  • 17min

Nitoy is in a conundrum today. As a waiter in a small restaurant, he can’t bring out customer orders because there aren’t enough ingredients. The restaurant will close the next day...

  • 평화국제영화축전
World Premiere

Gala Presentation

First Night Nerves
  • Stanley KWAN
  • Hong Kong,China,China
  • 2018
  • 100min

Two actresses who were once rivals reunite as the two main characters in the play Two Sisters. One, who was a star in the theatrical world, is returning to the stage after h...

World Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

The Rib
  • ZHANG Wei
  • China
  • 2018
  • 85min

Director Zhang Wei returns with another focus on China’s social issues in an exploration of life as a transgender person living in a changing Chinese society. Huanyu, who decides t...

A Window on Asian Cinema

Alpha, The Right to Kill
  • Brillante MENDOZA
  • Philippines
  • 2018
  • 94min

Filipino director Brillante Mendoza is making his name known worldwide and bringing about a new golden age of film in the Philippines. His new crime thriller, as if a reflection of...

International Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

The Eternity Between Seconds
  • Alec FIGURACION
  • Philippines,Korea
  • 2018
  • 83min

A Filipino-Korean co-production set in Incheon airport, about a psychological journey: from meeting, to conversation, sympathy, advice, enlightenment, and change. Successful writer...

A Window on Asian Cinema

Magic Lantern
  • Amir NADERI
  • United States
  • 2018
  • 91min

Director Amir Naderi has been passionately experimenting with cinema for a long time, contributing to the artform. Often surprising us with the bold visions of his previous films, ...

World Premiere

New Currents

His Lost Name
  • HIROSE Nanako
  • Japan
  • 2018
  • 113min

Middle-aged widower Tetsuro finds an unconscious young man on a river bank. When the man wakes up he says his name is ‘Shinichi’, but nothing more. It is apparent that Shinichi tri...

  • APM 2017

World Cinema

The Sisters Brothers
  • Jacques AUDIARD
  • France,Spain,Romania,Belgium
  • 2018
  • 121min

Brothers Charlie and Eli Sisters set off for the west, San Francisco with Det. John Morris, the three partnering to catch a wanted man, Hermann Warm. Unlike the rash, violent, trou...

  • 베니스영화제 감독상

Open Cinema

Kursk
  • Thomas VINTERBERG
  • Luxembourg,Belgium
  • 2018
  • 117min

Russian naval lieutenant Mikhail Kalekov and his colleagues board submarine Kursk for routine training. However, it sinks in an explosive accident leaving them on the brink of deat...

World Cinema

Roma
  • Alfonso CUARON
  • Mexico
  • 2018
  • 135min

Seventeen years after Y Tu Mama Tambien (2002), Alfonso CUARON returns to Mexico. From the moment the project Roma was unveiled, the world has paid attention to his n...

  • 베니스영화제 황금사자상
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