Special Program in Focus

• United States/Korea
• 2023
• 105min

Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea to Canada. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions ...

• Berlin Competition

Wide Angle

• France/Tunisia/Germany/Saudi Arabia
• 2023
• 107min

Olfa, who lives in Tunisia, has four daughters. One day, her two elder daughters vanish?the teens have left for Libya to join the Islamic State. Based on actual events that took place in Tunisia in 2015, Four Daughters is a docume...

• Cannes Competition, Documentary Prize

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• Finland/Germany
• 2023
• 81min

Returning from retirement, Aki Kaurismaki continues his proletarian trilogy Shadows in Paradise (1986), Ariel (1988), and The Match Factory Girl (1989) in his latest film, Fallen Leaves. A lonely woman isolated from the world exce...

• Cannes Jury Prize

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• Poland/Czech Republic/France/Belgium
• 2023
• 152min

In late 2021 as Belarus sends refugees from the Middle East to neighboring Poland, soldiers from both countries clash and refugees find themselves caught in the middle of a lushly forested border zone. Agnieszka Holland’s latest f...

• Venice Special Jury Prize

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• France
• 2023
• 135min

In nineteenth-century France, gourmet Dodin (Benoit Magimel) and cook Eugenie (Juliette Binoche) have nurtured trust and love over twenty years. The film opens with an over thirty-minute-long meticulous depiction of the kitchen, a...

• Cannes Best Director Award

World Cinema

• Tunisia/Belgium/France/Italy/Saudi Arabia/Qatar
• 2023
• 98min

It’s evident that the Dardenne brothers, who have a special interest in children, had sufficient reason to participate in producing this movie. In his previous two films, Hedi (2016) and Dear Son (2018), director Mohamed Ben Attia...

• Venice Orizzonti

Flash Forward

• Mexico/Spain
• 2023
• 117min

Fernando and Salvador embark on an expedition across northern Mexico to find the culprit behind the traffic accident that claimed their father’s life. Their uninvited stepsister Paula decides to join them, and the long-awaited coo...

• Venice Orizzonti

Flash Forward

• United Kingdom/Greece
• 2023
• 91min

Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday, drinking, clubbing and hooking up, in what should be the best summer of their lives. How to Have Sex is a brutally honest and realistic drama about young generations of...

• Cannes Un certain regard Award

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2023
• 89min

An old man and a young woman in shabby clothes enter an abandoned motel in a deserted town. It is only after a while that we realize that they are a father and his developmentally disabled daughter, and that the two of them live t...

Opening Film & Closing Film

• Korea
• 2023
• 106min

Gye-na (Ko A-sung) hates Korea. As she contemplates her life in her late twenties, she sees only weariness and helplessness in the monotony of her existence. Although her devoted partner, Ji-myung (Kim Woo-kyum), treats her well, ...

• 2016 APM Project