World Cinema
Birds of PassageThe native Wayuu family of Gujira, a desert region in northern Colombia, has adhered to its traditional lifestyle while placing themselves in tension with outsiders due to their geographical location. In the 1970s, marijuana trade...
Wide Angle
KIM-GUNThis film begins with a photo of an armed civilian in Gwangju in May 1980. Mr. Ji Man-won, a conservative commentator, claimed the North Korean military intervened in the May 18 Gwangju Democratic Movement. According to Mr. Ji, th...
Wide Angle
NOOREHNooreh is an eight-year-old girl living in a village on the India-Pakistan border. She discovers that gunfights stop when she wakes up. When the crossfire becomes so bad that school closes, Nooreh decides to stay up all night. Wil...
Korean Cinema Today
Kokdu: A Story of Guardian AngelsKorean traditional musical Kokdu was put on stage by the director Kim Tae-yong and the music director Bang Junsuk in 2017. Kokdu is someone who consoles and leads the dead to the underworld. The story is about four Kokdus who prot...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
The Man with Three CoffinsThe Man with Three Coffins (1987) is Lee Jang-ho’s masterpiece work of his subsequent period, based on Lee Je-ha’s novel with the same title. The main character travels with his wife’s ashes who died 3 years earlier. He meets a si...
World Cinema
I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as BarbariansIn this satire about the Holocaust in Romania, an actress tells the camera that she will play the role of performance director Mariana Marine, and the movie follows her routine. Preparing for a performance by day and enjoying her ...
Open Cinema
Dying to SurviveBased on true events that took place in China. Cheng Yong is a poor, divorced man of no consequence who owns an Indian herbal oil shop. His life is turned upside down when a man appears and grants him exclusive sales rights to “Gr...
Korean Cinema Today
BoriBo-ri, an 11-year-old girl in a seaside village, is the only family member who can hear. As an elementary school student, Bo-ri becomes more and more accustomed to talking with her friends while finding it hard to communicate with...
Flash Forward
Float Like a ButterflyFrom the producers of Once and Sing Street, Float Like a Butterfly is a powerful and timely story of a girl′s fight for freedom and belonging. In a gender-reversal of the classic film Billy Elliot, 15-year-old Frances has to fight...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Round FigureSudhir had a brilliant career as an actor, though mostly in supporting roles or as the villain. Still, he boasted of having famous lines and fancy action scenes on his resume. Now, he is old and raggedy without much to live for. T...