Open Cinema

• Japan
• 2021
• 122min

A popular webnovel that was adapted into a TV drama and a film, What She Likes... was also published in Korea under the title What She Likes Are Homosexuals, Not Me. High school student Jun is a closeted gay who is secretly datin...

Gala Presentation

• Japan
• 2021
• 122min

Hamaguchi Ryusuke once mentioned Eric Rohmer as his inspiration for Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy. He said thematically he wanted to focus on coincidences that Eric Rohmer often featured in his films, and he finds short films appea...

• Grand Jury Prize at Berlin International Film Festival

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Cambodia/France/China/Qatar
• 2021
• 91min

The White Building was once an icon of the successful urbanization and modernization of Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. As it decays, its residents are leaving one by one. The tension of the conflicts among them are rising, a...

• Orrizzonti Award for Best Actor at Venice International Film Festival, 2016 APM Project

Wide Angle

• Bhutan
• 2021
• 23min

Dema, a demure seventeen-year-old girl, works at a butcher shop in the capital city of Thimphu in Bhutan. Nothing seems to happen in this quiet city, where time seems to have stood still. Dema experiences the world through the occ...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2021
• 30min

A young couple has lived together for five years, and they share daily lives even without passion or financial stability. One day, they learn that she’s pregnant, and start to consider how to plan their future. (PARK Sungho)

Icons

• China
• 2021
• 113min

Walking out of the Peking University Hospital, a middle-aged man (Li Dong) borrows a cigarette from a stranger and says, "The diagnosis came out. It’s cancer. Stage four." Upon meeting his older brother Li Chun, Li Dong suggests a...

• 2018 APM Project

Wide Angle

• Nepal
• 2021
• 23min

A young mother visits a shaman in the hope that he will help her deaf daughter to be able to hear and speak. As advised, she tries to convince her husband and her sister to find a temple in the city together, but eventually it bec...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia/Singapore
• 2021
• 96min

Yuni, a high school girl, is obsessed with the color purple. Her family, who lives in the countryside, is not affluent, and thus realizes how important it is for her to get a scholarship to continue what she wants - to study in a ...

• Platform Prize at Toronto International Film Festival

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kazakhstan
• 2020
• 81min

The main character in Farkhat Sharipov’s previous film The Secret of a Leader enters a world enslaved in capitalism; however, the lead characters of 18 Kilohertz enter the world of drug addiction. In the chaos and darkness of the ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Palestine,Jordan,Qatar,Italy,Sweden
• 2020
• 97min

Every night, Mustafa stands on the balcony and greets his wife and children in another house 200 meters away, turning the lights on and off. Although they are physically close to each other, the barriers installed across Palestine...

• Venice International Film Festival Venice Days