Wide Angle

• Portugal
• 2019
• 65min

A cinematic journey through the world of Pedro COSTA, the Portuguese master filmmaker, unfolds in Sacavem. Julio ALVES intuitively rearranges the stills and soundtracks from COSTA’s films made over 20 years, from Down to Earth to ...

World Cinema

• Hungary
• 2019
• 88min

Hungary after World War II. A 42-year-old man and a 16-year-old girl meet in a city struggling with the ravages and destitution of war. The man lost his wife and two children on the Holocaust and the girl lost her parents and is l...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2019
• 131min

Director BONG Joon ho himself called the film Memories of Murder "a rural thriller." It could have meant to deal with events that took place in a rural area, not in the city, which is a general background of a thriller. Many thing...

World Cinema

• Uruguay,Argentina,Spain
• 2019
• 80min

Growing up in a small seaside village, teenager Rosina has an awkward body, taciturn character, mean sister and no friends. While the village is buzzing with rumors of shark appearance, and her parents are trying to salvage their ...

• Best Director Award at Sundance Film Festival

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2019
• 20min

An old and sick man lives a dismal life where he cannot even manage his own bowels without a social worker′s visit. Missing his wife who left passed away, he gives up his hope for life… (PARK Sungho)

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Bangladesh,Germany
• 2019
• 86min

The director Mostofa Sarwar FAROOKI, has been exploring social justice and fairness through his films including Television, the closing film at Busan International Film Festival in 2012. His seventh feature is filmed in one shot w...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2019
• 120min

Quite a few films are made about Sewol ferry disaster. However, it is not easy to meet stories about the lives of those who survived, not the deaths of those who died. Birthday deals with ‘today’ of the people, whose time have sto...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2019
• 114min

Seopyeonje is the story about an old pansori singer and his stepchildren wandering around the South Jeolla Province to live by pansori singing or both the bad luck and artistic excitement of their lives. The film made cry countles...

World Cinema

• Poland,France
• 2019
• 116min

Daniel, a 20-year-old young man who finished his prison term, gets a job at a woodworking center in a rural village with the help of a priest, but instead of going to work at the woodworking place, he pretends to be a new priest i...

• Venice International Film Festival Venice Days

Flash Forward

• NewZealand
• 2019
• 101min

“Why do you wear that mask?” asks a sexually aggressive woman who meets a tattooed-faced biker, known as ‘Damage’. The central protagonist of this gritty and yet emotionally rich New Zealand film replies: “So you can see who I am”...