A Window on Asian Cinema
Our DeparturesSetsuo 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...
A Window on Asian Cinema
The ScoundrelsWith 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...
A Window on Asian Cinema
LAKBAYAN (Journey)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...
BUSAN Classic
Koryo SaramKazakhstan-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...
BUSAN Classic
The Land of VadulsA 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 ...
BUSAN Classic
The Year of the DragonDirector 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...
New Currents
Gold CarrierReza 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
Fortitude1989. 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 KnowsThe 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...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Rona, Azim′s MotherAzim, 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...