Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2023
• 124min

In 1998, Mi-so (Kim Da-mi) transfers to Jeju Island and meets Ha-eun (Jeon So-nee). Despite their very different personalities, they become intimate, as if each has met a soulmate. But even this seemingly perfect pair cannot avoid...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2023
• 115min

Eun-sim (Na Moon-hee), at the age of eighty, has returned to her hometown after more than sixty years. She is relieved to spend some time with her old friends Geum-soon (Kim Yeong-ok) and Tae-ho (Park Keun-hyong), who, unlike her,...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Sri Lanka
• 2023
• 86min

A virus sweeps across Sri Lanka, triggering a wave of suicides among young people. The government proclaims that only ancient healing rituals can eliminate the virus. As parents desperately wait for their missing children to retur...

• Rotterdam NETPAC Award

New Currents

• Thailand
• 2023
• 93min

Solids by the Seashore marks the directorial debut of Patiparn Boontarig, who served as the assistant director for Manta Ray (2018) and Anatomy of Time (2021). Various artificial structures are being constructed to safeguard the e...

• 2023 ACF Post-Production Fund Recipient

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kazakhstan
• 2023
• 108min

Born without legs, Melis lives with his young son in a small rural village. There is a weapons test site near the village, but Melis and other villagers lead a peaceful life. Zhalgas and his friends eagerly wait for the days when ...

New Currents

• Bangladesh
• 2023
• 80min

Kajol lives in a rural village with his mother Kahinoor and his ailing grandmother, who suffers from dementia. He has a secret?he enjoys putting on his mother’s clothes and lipstick to play. One day, someone abruptly arrives at hi...

New Currents

• India
• 2023
• 98min

Filmmaker Kabir arrives in Varanasi, the spiritual capital of Hinduism with a history dating back to ancient times. Kabir begins to film Durga, who works at a crematorium by the Ganges, and Amma, who awaits death in Varanasi to br...

• 2023 ACF Post-Production Fund Recipient

Special Screening

• Korea
• 2023
• 139min

A poem emerges from pain, much like a bird breaking free from its shell. Only when the world is dismantled can a poem stand whole. Mija (Yun Jung-hee) aspires to write poems. She supports herself and her grandson, a child abandone...

• Cannes Best Screenplay Award

Special Program in Focus

• Indonesia
• 2023
• 112min

Set in Indonesia in the 1960s when the clove tobacco industry was growing, Cigarette Girl tells the story of Dasiyah, who dreams of creating a tobacco aroma with an ‘unforgettable taste.’ The series takes on a thriller format, rev...

Jiseok

• Kyrgyzstan
• 2023
• 80min

A diligent and cheerful young woman, Umut works as a nursing assistant with aspirations to become a certified nurse. She lives with her mother, and they depend on each other. Egemen lives with his elderly father and ekes out a liv...