Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2024
• 17min

A couple on the brink of breaking up decide to spend one last day together to resuscitate their relationship until sunrise at an inn on the East coast. With just 15 minutes left until sunrise, they wait?perhaps for a breakup or th...

Icons

• France/Spain/Portugal
• 2024
• 103min

Misericordia is a philosophical film noir by Alain Guiraudie that stands comparison with the works of Claude Chabrol and Robert Bresson. The movie is a prime example of the eccentric and imaginative world of director Alain Guiraud...

• Cannes Premiere, Toronto Special Presentations

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan/Singapore/France
• 2024
• 130min

A group of undocumented migrant workers secretly reside in the mountains of Taiwan. They’ve handed over their passports to the man they call Boss in exchange for jobs as caregivers, but they haven’t been paid in two months. Among ...

• Cannes Camera d′Or Special Distinction

New Currents

• Hong Kong, China
• 2024
• 112min

Jing’s day begins with a graceful tracking shot that follows her from the early morning as she pumps breast milk, leaves her baby with her mother-in-law, and heads to the bakery where she works. Her baby daughter Qing is difficult...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2024
• 95min

Mother’s household ledgers contain a lifetime of arduous years. While her memory fades as she grows older, the details of her daily life, meticulously recorded in the household ledgers for 48 years since 1969, remain as traces of ...

Jiseok

• Philippines
• 2024
• 90min

Motherland focuses on the survival story of Dao-ayen, a member of the Philippine National Police Special Action Force (SAF) from the Ifugao tribe in northern Luzon. He is called to the southernmost part of the Philippines for a sp...

Flash Forward

• Netherlands/Belgium
• 2024
• 96min

In his first English-language film, Talullah H. Schwab has presented a mystery about a man trapped. This marks a somewhat unexpected shift from her previous work, Confetti Harvest (2014), which was a drama about a cute rural girl....

• Toronto Platform

Wide Angle

• China
• 2024
• 103min

In the slums of Chongqing, China, Ms. Hu tirelessly collects strange garbage from the city center and brings them home. She drags back dinosaur heads, giant eggs, and mushroom models, possibly discarded after an amusement park clo...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran/France/Sweden/Germany
• 2024
• 96min

This Iranian film, invited to the Berlin Film Festival following their previous film, Ballad of a White Cow (2021), has gained much acclaim from festival audiences. While it does touch upon aspects of contemporary Iranian society,...

• Berlin Competition FIPRESCI Prize

Special Program in Focus

• Korea
• 2024
• 77min

My Mister, the 16-episode drama series, is undoubtedly one of actor Lee Sun-kyun’s signature works. Among the many elements that made this drama shine, Lee Sun-kyun was perhaps the most crucial. In My Mister, there are numerous me...