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A Window on Asian Cinema

Pop Aye
  • Kirsten TAN
  • Singapore,Thailand
  • 2017
  • 104min

Thana built Garden Square, Bangkok’s landmark of the 1990s. The building’s young owner plans to demolish it and replace it with a modern one. Facing a crisis, Thana feels tired of ...

World Premiere

Korean Cinema Today

Counting the Stars at Night
  • CHOI Yongseok
  • Korea
  • 2017
  • 122min

While living alone and working as a guide in Vietnam, Seok meets a Vietnamese woman and her son Min, and marries her. Later, Seok returns to his hometown in Busan, and begins to wo...

A Window on Asian Cinema

Close-knit
  • OGIGAMI Naoko
  • Japan
  • 2017
  • 127min

Tomo is a young girl living with her irresponsible mother. When her mother suddenly leaves one day Tomo goes to stay with her uncle Makio. At uncle’s house, Tomo happens to meet a ...

  • 베를린영화제 파노라마 관객상
World Premiere

Wide Angle

Freeway
  • HWANG Seulgi
  • Korea
  • 2017
  • 19min

Cabdriver Yeo-jin plans to leave Korea and start a new life with her daughter in China. On departure day, she heads for the airport with her friend Ju-hui when a sudden incident ma...

World Premiere

Wide Angle

Beloved
  • LIM Seungmi
  • Korea
  • 2017
  • 28min

In addition to the burden of caring for her mother whose mental condition is deteriorating, Hyo-jeong feels oppressed by the sheer weight of life itself. She finally decides to sen...

World Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

The Carousel Never Stops Turning
  • Ismail BASBETH
  • Indonesia
  • 2017
  • 84min

This movie was not written by somebody, but it deals with history witnessed by things. However, the level of history here is neither the record of a unique moment, such as a great ...

World Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Munabia
  • Taalaibek KULMENDEEV
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • 2017
  • 71min

Based on the novel of the same name, the movie deals with an adulterous couple. In a small village in Kyrgyzstan, a married man, Januzak, and a girl named Munabia fall in love fate...

World Premiere

Korean Cinema Today

A Tiger in Winter
  • LEE Kwangkuk
  • Korea
  • 2017
  • 107min

On a winter day when a tiger escapes from the zoo, Gyeong-yu is kicked out of his girlfriend’s house for some unknown reason. Having nowhere to go, Gyeong-yu wanders around and wor...

World Cinema

Euphoria
  • Lisa LANGSETH
  • Sweden,Germany
  • 2017
  • 98min

Euphoria, Lisa Langseth’s first English-language film following Pure and Hotell (produced in Swedish), tells the story of two sisters reunited after a long separation...

Flash Forward

God’s Own Country
  • Francis LEE
  • UK
  • 2017
  • 104min

Johnny Saxby works long hours on his family’s remote farm in the north of England. He numbs the daily frustration of his lonely existence with nightly binge-drinking at the local p...

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