Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2023
• 25min

In sweltering heat, a boy comes home from school and looks for water. Only his bedridden grandfather is home; his mother isn’t, and there is no water. After drinking up his grandfather’s water, the boy heads out to fill the water ...

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• Korea
• 2023
• 61min

Seoungmo (Shin Seokho), Namhee (Kim Seungyun), and Sangguk (Ha Seongguk) went to the same college. They try to make a film while staying at a guesthouse on a windy island, but they are clueless what their film will be about. Altho...

• Berlin Encounters

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• Germany/France/Serbia
• 2023
• 108min

Continuing her streak of success, since winning Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival with I Was at Home, But... (2019), Angela Schanelec has once again received recognition, winning Best Screenplay for her lates...

• Berlin Silver Bear for Best Screenplay

Special Program in Focus

• United States
• 2023
• 115min

A film about a Korean-American family in search of hope, Minari premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize. It continued its success receiving numerous awards from around...

• Oscars Best Supporting Actress

Special Program in Focus

• Indonesia
• 2023
• 18min

Sura, an orphaned boy, lives a lonely life in a fishing village, earning a penny for his labor. Wandering the beach in the vague expectation that his father may return, he discovers that a broken sex doll has been washed up and tr...

• Busan International Film Festival Sonje Award

A Window on Asian Cinema

• France/Mongolia/Portugal/Netherlands/Germany/Qatar
• 2023
• 103min

Seventeen-year-old Ze attends a modern school in Ulaanbaatar, while also leading a traditional life as a shaman and communing with ancestral spirits. Unlike his older sister, who is grappling with the gap between urban life and tr...

• Venice Orizzonti Best Actor Award

Special Program in Focus

• Indonesia
• 2023
• 15min

Basri and Salma have been married for five years. Together, they run a small amusement ride for children. Their peaceful daily routines begin to reveal small cracks in their facade of happiness, which, in turn, reveals the true re...

• Cannes Short Films Competition

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2023
• 115min

Once upon a time, three men were shipwrecked and stranded on a deserted island while traveling in a turtle boat to fight a war against the Japanese. The older, more storied one is Mong-hwi, the younger, stronger, and more upright ...

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• United States
• 2023
• 133min

Nobody likes teacher Paul Hunham. Everyone?his students, his colleagues, and even the headmaster?finds his pomposity and rigidity exasperating. With no family and nowhere to go over the 1970 Christmas holiday, Paul remains at scho...

• Toronto Special Presentations

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2023
• 93min

Ok-joo (Jun Jong-seo) faces the sudden death of her one true friend, Min-hee (Park Yu-rim). A former bodyguard with unrivaled skills, Ok-joo embarks on a mission to find the villain, Choi Pro (Kim Ji-hun), who led Min-hee, once a ...