History

A Window on Asian Cinema

Tumbbad
  • Rahi Anil BRAVE,Adesh PRASAD
  • India,Sweden
  • 2018
  • 111min

Vinayak′s tenacity to acquire wealth is another name for greed. While legends and curses create a mysterious atmosphere around Tumbbad, human endeavors to conquer the mystery grow ...

  • 베니스영화제 비평가주간
World Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

The Enigma of Arrival
  • SONG Wen
  • China
  • 2018
  • 114min

Long, the main character, spends his youth wandering with his three best friends from high school. With the emergence of a woman, Dongdong, whom they all fall in love with, their f...

World Premiere

Wide Angle

Funan
  • Denis Do
  • France,Belgium,Luxembourg
  • 2018
  • 84min

Chou lives a peaceful life with her husband and 4-year-old son in Phnom Pehn, Cambodia. Then comes the madness of the Khmer Rouge of 1975, and she must take an escape with her fami...

  • 안시국제애니메이션영화제 장편 대상
International Premiere

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Signal Rock
  • Chito S. ROÑO
  • Philippines
  • 2018
  • 127min

On a beautiful rocky island that looks like a giant abalone, young people sparsely sit and talk on their cell phones. One of them, Intoy, ends a call with his sister living abroad ...

World Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Fly By Night
  • Zahir OMAR
  • Malaysia
  • 2018
  • 102min

In Malaysia, where horror and comedy are the dominant film genres, this is a relatively non-mainstream crime thriller: Zahir Omar’s energetic debut feature depicts the dark crimina...

  • 2018 ACF 후반작업지원펀드
World Premiere

BUSAN Classic

The Fate of Lee Khan
  • King HU
  • Hong Kong,China
  • 2018
  • 100min

This 1973 film was directed by King Hu, who pioneered Hong Kong-based New Martial Arts movies. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Lee Khan, a powerful figure in the Royal Court, visit...

World Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

My Dear Friend​
  • YANG Pingdao
  • China
  • 2018
  • 106min

In southern China, a nervous city woman in a sexy outfit appears in a remote rural village. She comes to her ex-boyfriend’s grandparents’ house to find him. Despite her loud, rude ...

  • 2018 ACF 후반작업지원펀드

A Window on Asian Cinema

Shadow
  • Yimou ZHANG
  • China
  • 2018
  • 116min

Based on Zhu Sujin’s rendition of China’s fabled Three Kingdoms saga, the fight scenes in Zhang Yimou’s latest wuxia historical epic are not as grandiose as those in Hero...

  • 베니스영화제 비경쟁부문

Flash Forward

Museum
  • Alonso RUIZPALACIOS
  • Mexico
  • 2018
  • 126min

Director Alonso Ruizpalacios returns with Museum following his breakout debut, Gueros (2014). Inspired from a real event?the heist that occurred at Mexico City’s Nati...

  • 베를린영화제 각본상

A Window on Asian Cinema

Vision
  • Naomi KAWASE
  • Japan,France
  • 2018
  • 109min

French journalist Jeanne arrives in the mountains of Japan, in search of a rare medicinal herb, Vision, fabled to appear once every 997 years. Jeanne seeks out the taciturn Tomo an...

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