Open Cinema

• United States
• 2017
• 123min

From master storyteller, Guillermo del Toro, comes The Shape of Water?an other-worldly fairy tale set against the backdrop of Cold War-era America circa 1962. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lone...

World Cinema

• Sweden,Germany,France,Denmark
• 2017
• 142min

The sudden fall of a middle-aged man with a hitherto successful life might not seem that unusual, but it’s worth noting here that this film takes on the darker side of Sweden with humor and satire, through the protagonist’s downwa...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Vietnam
• 2017
• 100min

What if the movie The Devil Wears Prada were set in Vietnam? The vibrant fashion world of Saigon meets the Ao Dai, the traditional Vietnamese dress, in a movie that criss-crosses the 48 years from 1969 to 2017. Arrogant Nhu Y, the...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2017
• 23min

Set in Kyoto, starting with a mediocre college student, this TV animation series tells the secret confession about how which club you choose freshman year changes everything.

• Focus: YUASA MASAAKI

Flash Forward

• Israel,Austria
• 2017
• 94min

Yoel is a historian who is in a lawsuit against an influential Austrian family in the village of Rahnsdorf since the family is planning a real-estate development on a Jewish massacre site. Yoel assumes the real purpose of the plan...

Gala Presentation

• Japan
• 2017
• 124min

The film opens at the scene of a homicide with the murderer setting fire to a corpse. He confesses his crime shortly after, making a lawyer named Shigemori begrudgingly take the case. As Misumi already has a prior conviction for h...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2017
• 108min

Mika is working as a nurse by day and as a hostess by night. Feeling isolated by an uncertain anxiety, she has an obsession with death. Shinji, a construction worker, has simultaneous feelings of dread that something terrible will...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2017
• 24min

Overweight Ga-hui is infatuated with a boy in her school. Su-bin offers Ga-hui some strange diet pills, telling her it is “a drug to make you a human.” The moment she swallows the pills, weird things happen in front of her eyes.

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2017
• 107min

As an old lady looks into the distance where high-voltage power pylons are visible, green leaves sprout from a dead tree nearby, and she looks at her son’s back. Senior citizen Kim Mal-hae, who has protested the construction of py...

Wide Angle

• United States
• 2017
• 87min

Set inside a single room in Folsom Prison, The Work follows three men from outside as they participate in a four-day group therapy retreat with level-four convicts. Over the four days, each man in the room takes his turn at delvin...