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World Premiere

Wide Angle

A Dance for Ren Hang
  • Yuan Bin Lei
  • Singapore,MacauChina
  • 2018
  • 9min

Three dancers reenact the best photographs by brilliant Chinese photographer Ren Hang, who was well known for his shocking photographs bordering on taboo. Ren Hang killed himself i...

World Premiere

New Currents

SAVAGE
  • Si Wei CUI
  • China
  • 2018
  • 111min

Mt. Baekdu, heavy with snow in the middle of winter. It is said that many ethnic Koreans still live near the snow-covered mountain. A policeman waiting for his transfer and a group...

World Cinema

Border
  • Ali ABBASI
  • Sweden
  • 2018
  • 109min

Border guard Tina is extraordinarily good at spotting smugglers. One day, a suspicious-looking man steps off the ferry. Unable to identify what he’s hiding, she becomes obsessed wi...

  • 칸영화제 주목할만한시선 대상

Wide Angle

The State Against Mandela And The Others
  • Nicolas CHAMPEAUX,Gilles PORTE
  • France,SouthAfrica
  • 2018
  • 102min

The film begins with a historical trial in 1963. Nelson Mandela and his colleagues were sentenced to life imprisonment in a nine-month trial made famous by Mandela’s self-defense s...

  • 칸영화제 특별상영

Korean Cinema Retrospective

Heavenly Homecoming to Stars
  • LEE Jang-ho
  • Korea
  • 2018
  • 110min

Lee Jang-ho’s debut film, Heavenly Homecoming to Stars (1974) is based on serialized novel of Choi In-ho’s that was first published in newspaper installments. The film opene...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

Good Windy Days
  • LEE Jang-ho
  • Korea
  • 2018
  • 113min

Good Windy Days(1980) is the movie that defines Lee Jang-ho as a critical social realism writer. Ahn Sung-ki returns to the big screen as an adult actor for the first time i...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

Children of Darkness Part 1, Young-ae the Songstress
  • LEE Jang-ho
  • Korea
  • 2018
  • 100min

Children of Darkness (1981) is based on Lee Cheol-yong’s novel of the same title. The story of the film corresponds to Lee Jang-ho’s other film, Heavenly Homecoming to St...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

Declaration of Idiot
  • LEE Jang-ho
  • Korea
  • 2018
  • 92min

Declaration of Idiot (1983), by typical realist film director Lee Jang-ho, adopts the use of innovative movie techniques that influence next generation filmmakers. He record...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

Widow Dance
  • LEE Jang-ho
  • Korea
  • 2018
  • 108min

Widow Dance (1983) is a movie based on Lee Cheol-yong’s novel. It is the same as Lee Jang-ho’s other movie, Children of Darkness, in regards to be based on Lee’s nove...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

Eoh Wu-dong
  • Jang-ho LEE
  • Korea
  • 2018
  • 110min

Eoh Wu-dong (1985) is a representative erotic movie of Lee Jang-ho, with the movie Between the Knees (1984). During the Joseon Dynasty reign of King Seongjong, Eoh Wu...

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