A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2023
• 91min

In Harbin, China, in the early 2010s, fifteen-year-old Xian goes to live with her estranged father when her mother, a doctor, takes a job in Africa for a year. Her initial anticipation that this would be the worst summer of her li...

• Cannes Directors′ Fortnight

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2023
• 132min

Even if it’s clear where we’re headed, we’re going all the way together without a single glance away. Filled equally with suspense and laughter, Ransomed is the latest film from Director Kim Seong-hun, who has proven his ability t...

Wide Angle

• United States
• 2023
• 116min

Beyond Utopia follows the last known defectors to attempt to flee North Korea, where an oppressive dictatorship works overtime to convince the citizens that they are living in paradise. At the film’s core are a mother desperate to...

• Sundance Audience Award

On Screen

• Korea
• 2023
• 130min

Kim Jiyong (Nam Joohyuk) is a diligent and brilliant student at the police academy. However, during weekends, he assumes the role of a vigilante to apprehend wrongdoers who evade the reach of the law. His moves, which were given t...

World Cinema

• Argentina/Luxembourg/Brazil/Chile
• 2023
• 189min

Moran, a bank teller, yearns to escape his monotonous life, and resolves to rob a safe. Involuntarily, his coworker Roman becomes entangled in this criminal act. In a tranquil rural village, where Roman ventures to retrieve a conc...

• Cannes Un certain regard

World Cinema

• France/Belgium
• 2023
• 108min

Vincent’s life is a nightmare. At work, on the street, in his apartment, and everywhere else, he is beaten for no reason. Unable to go to work or see anyone, Vincent flees to his childhood village in the countryside. Soon after, a...

• Cannes Critics′ Week, Fantasia Film Festival Cheval Noir

New Currents

• China
• 2023
• 93min

Soon-to-be married Mak Yuen-ting leaves for Hong Kong in search of her father, who left twenty years before. Her father, Mak Ka-fai, had come to Guangzhou for work, met Yuen-ting’s mother, married, and lived with her for ten years...

Icons

• Germany
• 2023
• 94min

Wim Wenders, director of Pina (2012), made this 3D documentary to explore the work of one of Germany’s greatest artists, Anselm Kiefer. Through archival footage and dramatic re-enactments, the audience slowly gains insights into A...

• Cannes Special Screenings

Wide Angle

• Indonesia
• 2023
• 15min

Frustrated by their parents’ impending divorce, two sisters escape their oppressive home environment and spend time alone to reminisce about their childhood. The choice between mom staying in the city and dad returning to their ho...

Special Program in Focus

• Indonesia
• 2023
• 99min

After many years of living in the city, a transgender woman has to go back to her remote hometown to attend her father’s funeral. She finds the village has changed greatly, and that the villagers have become extremely religious. S...