Flash Forward

• Israel
• 2023
• 98min

The Vanishing Soldier is the story of a young man who unintentionally deserts during a mission in the Gaza Strip. A naive eighteen-year-old young man with an innocent face sets out to find his lover and parents living in Tel Aviv,...

• Locarno Competition

Special Program in Focus

• Indonesia
• 2023
• 104min

Love can bloom in unexpected places. Mouly Surya’s sophomore film takes place in a whimsical school for children with disabilities. The director creates a world of a fairy tale of young love as imagined by visually impaired teens ...

• Rotterdam NETPAC Award

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2023
• 26min

He loves Sally. Yet, at times, he finds colors absent in Sally in others and shows curiosity, prompting Sally to change her color. A tableau of love, presented as a one-man show on stage. It is a one-person-system film directed by...

Special Program in Focus

• United States/Russia
• 2023
• 102min

In San Jose, California, David Kim looks through old photographs and videos of his daughter Margot and his late wife Pamela, who died from lymphoma nearly two years earlier, after which David and Margot became distant. One night, ...

• Sundance Best of Next Audience Award

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2023
• 116min

In 1999, Young-mi (Lee You-young), cruelly nicknamed “Ms. Apocalypse,” develops a crush on a married man who is imprisoned for embezzlement. Young-mi ends us imprisoned for aiding his crime. When she is released, her crush’s wife ...

• 2021 APM Project

Flash Forward

• Australia
• 2023
• 118min

An Iranian woman living in Australia, Shayda finds refuge in a women’s shelter with her frightened six-year-old daughter, Mona. Having fled her husband, Hossein, and filed for divorce, Shayda struggles to maintain normalcy for Mon...

• Sundance Audience Award

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India/Nepal
• 2023
• 114min

The film opens with a rather shocking scene and quickly transitions to the everyday life of the beloved Guras. A nine-year-old girl living in a mountainous village near Darjeeling, Guras lives with her parents who cultivate cardam...

• Karlovy Vary Proxima Special Jury Prize

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2023
• 140min

A girl shows her trust of a boy by showing him a dead fetus in a jar. Her relationship with the soccer coach she once loved left her haunted by the agony of murder. The boy, who desperately wants to leave after witnessing his moth...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2023
• 67min

In 2046, an AI named Salvation senses the end of the world. A group of artists are the only ones who can stop it. The Resisters, as they call themselves, recognize that their artistic performance is the only thing that can save hu...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2023
• 84min

Following the Sound is the fourth feature from director Sugita Kyoshi, known for Listen to Light (2017) and Haruhara-san’s Recorder (2021). It is a work that focuses on the simple but sophisticated combination of sound and image t...

• Venice Venice Days