Midnight Passion

• Japan
• 2019
• 108min

Set over one night in Tokyo, we follow Leo, a young boxer down on his luck as he meets his first love Monica, a call girl and an addict but still an innocent. Little does Leo know, Monica is unwittingly caught up in a drug-smuggli...

• Cannes Film Festival Directors′ Fortnight

Flash Forward

• Italy,Belgium,France
• 2019
• 107min

As his first feature film, the cartoonist Igort adepts his comic book on a Neapolitan hitman revenging the death of his son. Rather than filming a realistic version of his comic strip, he chose to style it, returning to the colors...

• Venice International Film Festival Venice Days

Flash Forward

• Canada
• 2019
• 109min

Laurie, an ambitious young woman trying to make a name for herself as a writer. Clara, a social media superstar with a large following. Her fabulous instagram life makes her a poster girl for top named brands and merchandise. Eliz...

World Cinema

• Romania,Serbia
• 2019
• 89min

Ivana, who works as an actress in Romania, goes back home to Serbia on the border with Romania when she has health problems. Her intention was to convalesce under the care of her family at home, but things happen around Ivana. The...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2019
• 154min

At her 70th birthday celebration, the matriarch of the Yu family suffers a stroke. Fortunately, she recovers but is diagnosed with dementia. Her four sons, who are busy with problems their own lives and families, now face another ...

• Cannes Film Festival Critics′ Week

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2019
• 103min

On the Tibetan grasslands, Darje and Drolkar lead a serene and ordinary life with their three sons and Darje’s father. The death of Darje’s father throws the whole family into sorrow, but soon Darje and Drolkar are caught unawares...

• Venice International Film Festival Orrizzonti

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2019
• 90min

Screen X films (a three-sided, three-dimensional, full-screen film including both walls of the theater) are not common, and screen X animations are rarer. In that sense, Princess Aya is the world’s first animation film to be enjoy...

Wide Angle

• Nepal
• 2019
• 19min

In a rural village in Nepal where civil war is looming, one boy′s family is about to take refuge in India, while the boy is confused about leaving his hometown. (PARK Sungho)

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2019
• 112min

The Housemaid is one of the strangest and most beautiful films of the vertical mise en scenes compressed into steps in Korean film history. A maid (LEE Eunsim) seduces Dongsik(KIM Jingyu), the master of the house, and gets pregnan...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Afghanistan
• 2019
• 86min

Hava, Maryam, Ayesha shows the lives of three women living in Kabul, Afghanistan. Pregnant and nearly due to give birth, Hava lives with her husband’s parents and has to take care of all house chores. She takes care of sick her mo...

• Venice International Film Festival Orrizzonti