A Window on Asian Cinema

• SriLanka,India
• 2019
• 103min

In 1814, Ceylon(now Srilanka), with its beautiful nature in the Indian Ocean, is facing a period of upheaval about to become part of the British Empire. Prasanna VITHANAGE depicts the survival and love of the outcast in the lowest...

• APM 2013

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...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2019
• 78min

A film crew arrives in a small village in the mountains of Iran. A filmmaker who came back to Iran to make an art film for an overseas film festival, a producer who forced his way in through personal connections to work in the fil...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Pakistan
• 2019
• 158min

A devout Muslim who writes, composes, and even records hymns praising the Prophet, Rahat is a respected elderly man who works in real estate and takes care of his bedridden wife. He has a guilty pleasure?he likes to dance like the...

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 ...

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...

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

World Cinema

• NewZealand
• 2019
• 93min

Recalling the classic colorful musicals of Jacques Demy and their affection for the working-class people of France’s regional cities, Daffodils substitutes New Zealand pop songs for Michel LEGRAND’s symphonic raptures but Kiwi dir...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Vietnam
• 2019
• 107min

The Vietnamese remake of the Korean film My Annoying Brother (2016) was directed by young Vietnamese director VU Ngoc Phuong based on the original scenario by YU Young-a who also wrote another blockbuster Miracle in Cell No.7. Unl...

World Cinema

• France
• 2019
• 77min

“Deerskin is my first realism movie. The character and the world surrounding him is very specific. You can walk along the street and meet ‘Georges’ by chance, and anyone can become like Georges. That’s why you’re more nervous and...

• Opening Film at Cannes Film Festival Directors′ Fortnight