A Window on Asian Cinema

• Nepal
• 2019
• 100min

In an overwhelmingly charming Alpine region in northern Nepal, Khando runs into a Khampa soldier while working in the mountains, falling in love and giving birth to a son. Her life, however, enters a tough path of turbulence like ...

Gala Presentation

• United States,Korea
• 2019
• 86min

Based on a personal essay by Chang-rae LEE published in The New Yorker, Coming Home Again is an intimate family drama about a mother, a son, and the burden of family expectations. Chang-rae, a first-generation Korean American, has...

Wide Angle

• Thailand
• 2019
• 84min

Shaped like a round, golden spaceship, Dhammakaya is the largest and richest Buddhist temple in Thailand. With millions of followers, it has become an icon of Thai Buddhism and the mecca of all Buddhists in the world, yet it also ...

Wide Angle

• France,Argentina,Uruguay
• 2019
• 86min

In Argentina, a woman dies every week due to clandestine abortion. In 2018, a bill supporting free, safe and legal abortion is introduced to the National Congress, sparking an intense debate in Argentinian society. Que Sea Ley is ...

• Cannes Film Festival Special Screening

Wide Angle

• Syria,Denmark
• 2019
• 103min

Feras FAYYAD, who won the jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival for a documentary called Last Men in Aleppo, once again captured the horrors of Syria. The focus this time is on Dr. Amani, a female doctor who risks her life and ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2019
• 27min

Covering her injured nose, Hanna goes looking for Hyun-soo, her boyfriend. Hyun-soo disappeared, and while dealing with Hyun-soo’s tutee Jaewoo and Jae-woo’s mom who are rude all the time, and the unwelcome guest, Min-ok, Hyun-soo...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• UK,Thailand
• 2019
• 93min

Krabi Island is one of the most attractive tourist destinations in Southern Thailand, where the prehistoric time, closer past and the present collide. Krabi, 2562 captures this beautiful island in classy Super 16mm film co-directe...

Flash Forward

• Turkey,Germany
• 2019
• 117min

Hakan and Nihal live in Istanbul and have been married for many years. As time passes, Nihal begins to yearn for a child but fails to become pregnant. The various fertility treatments she receives are ineffective. The tides of cha...

World Cinema

• France
• 2019
• 119min

In 1770, Marianne, a painter, is asked to take a portrait Elois, a bride-to-be who has just come from a convent. Unwilling to accept the fate of marriage, Elois refuses to pose for a portrait, and Marianne, who has to complete the...

• Best Screenplay Award at Cannes Film Festival

Special Programs in Focus 2

• Malaysia
• 2019
• 115min

Set against the backdrop of multiethnic, multicultural Malaysia, Yasmin AHMAD’s swan song Talentime is a film that perfectly captures her artistic world, presenting a utopia of relationships that connect various characters despite...