Open Cinema

• Yutaka MATSUSHIGE
• Japan
• 2024
• 110min

This is a film adaptation of Solitary Gourmet, an internationally popular manga-based series that has been airing on TV Tokyo since 2012 and reached its 10th season in 2023. Matsushige Yutaka, who plays the main character Goro, ha...

World Cinema

• Ramon ZÜRCHER
• Switzerland
• 2024
• 118min

The third feature film by Ramon Zurcher, who is recognized as Switzerland’s representative next-generation director, and the final film in his animal trilogy exploring human togetherness. A middle-aged couple, Karen and Markus, li...

• Locarno International Competition

Midnight Passion

• Coralie FARGEAT
• United Kingdom/United States/France
• 2024
• 140min

Hollywood celebrity Elisabeth Sparkle refuses to be replaced in the twilight of her stardom. She takes fate in her own hands and creates Sue, a better, younger, and more beautiful version of herself. The problem is that Sue doesn’...

• Cannes Best Screenplay Award

Special Program in Focus

• Maureen FAZENDEIRO,Miguel GOMES
• Portugal
• 2024
• 102min

Co-directed by Miguel Gomes and Maureen Fazendeiro, The Tsugua Diaries is a magical film filled with simple, personal, and humorous scenes. ‘Tsugua’ backwards is August, thus The August Diaries. The story takes place over a period...

• Cannes Directors′ Fortnight

Special Program in Focus

• Ching-shen CHUANG
• Taiwan
• 2024
• 110min

It’s 1997. Ai fails to enter the prestigious First Girl’s High School and is forced by her mother to enroll in the school’s night program instead. The day and night students share classrooms and wear the same uniform but different...

Flash Forward

• Mo HARAWE
• Austria/France/Germany/Somalia
• 2024
• 134min

What might a village next to paradise be like? Would it resemble heaven, or is it a place abandoned by God while creating heaven? Unlike many African films that explore conflicts between traditional society, individuals, and famil...

• Cannes Un certain regard

Korean Cinema Today

• Hanju LEE
• Korea
• 2024
• 114min

Moon-young works as a railroad conductor in Seoul. The accidents and their aftereffects that she witnesses as a conductor are hard to endure, and she doesn’t get along with people. One day, she receives a call from a friend and de...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Nader SAEIVAR
• Germany/Austria
• 2024
• 101min

A new film by Iranian director Nader Saeivar, who was invited to the New Currents section in 2022 with No End. While the director portrayed an ironic situation where an innocent citizen had to confess to a crime in No End, this fi...

• Venice Orizzonti Extra Audience Award

World Cinema

• Paola CORTELLESI
• Italy
• 2024
• 119min

This is the feature directorial debut of Paola Cortellesi, who first debuted as a singer at 13 and later became an actress and screenwriter, before taking on directing at the age of 50. The film’s protagonist, Delia?played by the ...

Icons

• Emmanuel MOURET
• France
• 2024
• 118min

There are three friends: Joan, Alice, and Rebecca, each facing love in their own way. Joan feels that her love for her partner Victor has completely ended. Victor tries his best to improve their relationship, but he can’t change h...

• Venice Competition