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World Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Our Departures
  • Yasuhiro YOSHIDA
  • Japan
  • 2018
  • 120min

Setsuo has been living alone for the past decade, working as a train driver in Kagoshima. One day a young woman and a little boy appear before him to inform that his son has died o...

World Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

The Scoundrels
  • Tzu-Hsuan HUNG
  • Taiwan
  • 2018
  • 105min

With a single mistake, Rui, a former star basketball player, loses his job and has nothing to do. Collecting parking fees on the street, he’s snooping around a dark world. He knows...

World Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

LAKBAYAN (Journey)
  • Brillante MENDOZA,Lav DIAZ,Kidlat TAHIMIK
  • Philippines
  • 2018
  • 118min

Lakbayan received attention from the beginning of its production, probably because the names of the three directors, best representing Philippine cinema, came together and w...

World Premiere

BUSAN Classic

Koryo Saram
  • SON Lavrenti
  • Kazakhstan
  • 2018
  • 27min

Kazakhstan-born second generation Koryoin Son Lavrenti is the interviewer of the film featuring variety of people fluent in Koryo. Experiences under the Soviet regime were oppressi...

World Premiere

BUSAN Classic

The Land of Vaduls
  • Lavrenti SON
  • Kazakhstan
  • 2018
  • 28min

A documentary about the ecosystems and the ethnic minorities of North of Siberia. During the Soviet era, stories of the Eurasian minorities were almost unknown. Telling the untold ...

World Premiere

BUSAN Classic

The Year of the Dragon
  • CHOI Kook-in
  • Kazakhstan
  • 2018
  • 84min

Director Choi Kook-in, a North Korean defector born in Seongjin, North Hamgyong Province, studied film at the Moscow State Film School. After criticizing Kim Il-sung’s August Incid...

World Premiere

New Currents

Gold Carrier
  • Touraj ASLANI
  • Iran
  • 2018
  • 87min

Reza is a gold runner who delivers gold pieces after work to retailers. Delivering the gold as usual one day, a group of gangs hit him and steal the gold pieces. The owner of the r...

A Window on Asian Cinema

Fortitude
  • Rashid MALIKOV
  • Uzbekistan
  • 2018
  • 78min

1989. Saidulla, a retired Soviet military officer, lives alone in a small house. His son and grandson live in the same town, but they never visit. He is often afflicted by visions ...

World Cinema

Everybody Knows
  • Asghar FARHADI
  • France,Spain,Italy
  • 2018
  • 135min

The new film by Asghar Farhadi, featuring Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem and set in Spain, opened the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. Laura, a Spanish woman living in Buenos Aires, vis...

  • 칸영화제 개막작
World Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Rona, Azim′s Mother
  • Jamshid MAHMOUDI
  • Afghanistan,Iran
  • 2018
  • 89min

Azim, working as a janitor in Tehran City Hall, is an Afghan refugee. While helping his mother and his brother′s family plan to smuggle themselves into Germany, he feels betrayed b...

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