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Korean Cinema Today

The Man Standing Next
  • WOO Min-ho
  • Korea
  • 2020
  • 113min

On October 26, 1979, Kim Gyu-pyeong (Lee Byung-hun), the head of KCIA, assassinated President Park (Lee Sung-min). The Man Standing Next reconstructs what happened 40 days b...

World Cinema

Falling
  • Viggo MORTENSEN
  • Canada,UK,Denmark
  • 2020
  • 113min

The directorial debut of The Lord of the Rings actor Viggo Mortensen. When his homophobic and racist father can no longer live alone, the son (Viggo Mortensen) brings him to...

  • 칸 2020
International Premiere

Flash Forward

The Art of Dying Far Away
  • Júlio ALVES
  • Portugal
  • 2020
  • 91min

It is a story about an old couple and a turtle. The couple, about to divorce, share things they had together. Finally, one turtle they raised is left and they each claim the turtle...

World Premiere

Open Cinema

DAEMUGA
  • LEE HANJONG
  • Korea
  • 2020
  • 109min

DAEMUGA consists of four parts. Part 1: an incident in which a professional shaman named Shin Nam unexpectedly becomes involved. Part 2: another shaman, named Gangnam, appea...

World Premiere

Korean Cinema Today

BEASTS CLAWING AT STRAWS
  • KIM Yong-hun
  • Korea
  • 2020
  • 108min

The characters in BEASTS CLAWING AT STRAWS live in their own heaven and hell with a bag of money. ‘The money bag’ is not the property of pleasure or happiness after they sna...

  • 로테르담영화제 심사위원 특별상

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Undine
  • Christian PETZOLD
  • Germany,France
  • 2020
  • 90min

The movie starts with an unusual close-up of a woman’s (Paula Beer) determined face speaking to her boyfriend ‘If you leave me, I must kill you. You know that.’ Undine, an u...

  • 베를린영화제 여우주연상(은곰상)

World Cinema

Shorta
  • Anders ØLHOLM,Frederik Louis HVIID
  • Denmark
  • 2020
  • 108min

Two white police officers are patrolling a neighborhood where the Arabs live. Amid heightened tensions in the area, after a suspect is placed in critical condition due to excessive...

  • 베니스영화제 비평가주간

Wide Angle

The Painter and the Thief
  • Benjamin REE
  • Norway
  • 2020
  • 107min

Barbora is a young painter who is gaining attention in Norway. One day, she is shocked to find her paintings stolen. The real story begins as the thief gets caught by the police an...

  • 선댄스영화제 월드다큐멘터리 심사위원특별상
International Premiere

Wide Angle

Children of the Night
  • Behrouz NOURANIPOUR
  • Iran
  • 2020
  • 87min

A young boy tells the story of his failed suicide bombing attack as if it was a heroic episode. “If the bomb had exploded, no one would have survived.” “Did you hope so?” “Yes, I w...

International Premiere

Wide Angle

Mishima: The Last Debate
  • Keisuke TOYOSHIMA
  • Japan
  • 2020
  • 108min

On May 13, 1969, 1,000 students from Tokyo University await Yukio Mishima. The air in the auditorium is taut with tension. The invitation inciting students belonging to radical mov...

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