World Cinema

• Canada
• 2019
• 97min

Katie, a university dance major, makes everyone believe that she’s fighting against cancer. Katie’s falsified diagnosis and counterfeit fundraising have transformed her into a campus celebrity surrounded by the supportive communit...

World Cinema

• Spain,Chile,Germany,France
• 2019
• 100min

"Some time ago, I′ve seen the pictures a man took there. The pictures seemed to be shouting, ‘Look at these beauties and our brave pioneers, who tamed them well.′ I began to ask myself, ′Who and how could do this in this land whe...

• Best Director Award at Venice International Film Festival Orrizzonti

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2019
• 136min

Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? is remembered as an unprecedented attempt in Korean cinema history and an achievement of exceptional aesthetics. When Abbas KIAROSTAMI’s Where Is My Friend’s Home won the third prize at the...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2019
• 94min

Han is an elementary school student who lives in a remote mountain village with his grandmother, after his parents’ divorce. His mother left for a city to search for a job. One day, on his way home from school, Han sees a man usin...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2019
• 100min

Director KIM Kiyoung’s unconventional film format relies heavily on collaboration with DP JUNG Il-sung. Woman on Fire (1971) was the beginning. A housemade Myeongja (YOON Yeojeong) and the master of the house Dongsik (NAMGUNG Won)...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2019
• 82min

After five years, five people share their memories of April 16, 2014: a college student who was then a senior in high school, a cafe owner in Seochon, a middle school teacher in Incheon, a human rights activist, and a fish farmer ...

World Cinema

• Sudan,France,Egypt,Norway,Germany,Qatar
• 2019
• 105min

A small village in Sudan. As soon as Muzamil was born, a prophet says, "This child will die at twenty." The heartbroken father of Muzamil leaves for a foreign country in search of a job, and Muzamil grows depressed under the overp...

• Venice Award for a Debut Film at Venice International Film Festival Venice Days

Icons

• France
• 2019
• 102min

In Haiti in 1972, a man is turned into a zombie and sent as a slave to a sugarcane plantation. Nowadays, a Haitian teenager, a boarder of the Legion of Honor in Paris, is haunted by the memory of this man neither dead nor alive. F...

• Cannes Film Festival Directors′ Fortnight

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia
• 2018
• 112min

May is hardly ever able to come out of her room or out of her world, even when there’s a fire next door. Little things can drive May into memories fraught with violence, and then she hurts herself, overwhelmed by the pressure of u...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2018
• 100min

A famous actor and director visit a mountain village to reveal the authenticity of a video sent by a young girl. The visit confirms the issues of gender, rural conservatism, different languages, and so on. However, the social and ...