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• Philippines
• 2019
• 283min

Manila in 2034. A catastrophic volcanic eruption occurred on Celebes three years prior, and Southeast Asia has fallen into permanent darkness. Nirvano Navarro who claims that he has received divine power from God is an infantilist...

• Cannes Film Festival Directors′ Fortnight

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2019
• 108min

Gayoung visits Seongbum, an art instructor, to consult on her love affair. She said she fell in love with a married man. Seongbum then criticizes her, saying “Are you consulting about a married man to another married man?" We soon...

Opening Film & Closing Film

• Kazakhstan,Japan
• 2019
• 84min

One morning, a man goes to a town market to sell his horses with the other villagers. After exchanging affectionate glances with his wife and leaving his children, the man goes to the market and is killed by horse thieves. The wif...

• APM 2017

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2019
• 112min

The Housemaid is one of the strangest and most beautiful films of the vertical mise en scenes compressed into steps in Korean film history. A maid (LEE Eunsim) seduces Dongsik(KIM Jingyu), the master of the house, and gets pregnan...

Gala Presentation

• UK,Hungary,Australia
• 2019
• 140min

Hal, wayward prince and reluctant heir to the English throne, has turned his back on royal life and is living among the people. But when his tyrannical father dies, Hal is crowned King Henry V and is forced to embrace the life he ...

• Venice International Film Festival

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2019
• 157min

"In 1980, to wipe out the old evils and establish a new order, I wanted to talk about what was yesterday’s truth and fake without pretense through a detective who persistently protects humans. It’s a dark story and even the screen...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Laos,Spain,Singapore
• 2019
• 116min

The time and space cannot be specified in a sleepy rural village in Laos. A boy’s family make a poor living by farming and bartering the crops. As his mother becomes sick with tuberculosis, his father abandons the family. Since th...

• Venice International Film Festival Venice Days

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2019
• 103min

The March of the Fools is a full-length picture showing the youth of the time. Based on CHOI Inho′s novel of the same name, published in a series on Daily Sports, it depicts the frustration and anxiety of young people in the 1970s...

World Cinema

• Italy
• 2019
• 123min

Mario MARTONE transposes in a contemporary Naples a famous play by Eduardo De Filippo featuring a little mafia chef. This one deals mainly with the local affairs, settling with his band the problems between the inhabitants of his ...

• Venice International Film Festival In Competition

Wide Angle

• Norway
• 2019
• 75min

In a Norwegian city, some middle-aged men get together every week to drink beer and sing songs. They make a choir and practice singing hard. If any of the members die, they promise to sing together at the funeral. One day, the leg...