A Window on Asian Cinema

• United States,Philippines
• 2019
• 95min

The third feature film by Isabel SANDOVAL continues to deliver social messages provocatively. The audience can observe her growth as a director and lead actress. A Filipino immigrant woman is working as a caregiver to a Russian-Je...

• Venice International Film Festival Venice Days

World Cinema

• Austria,UK,Germany
• 2019
• 105min

Alice (Emily BEECHAM) is a bioengineer who develops new species in her laboratory. She smuggles out her new plant to her home, decides to grow it with her son, Joe, and names it Little Joe. But no one expected the impact of the Li...

• Best Actress Award at Cannes Film Festival

Open Cinema

• China
• 2019
• 147min

In 2019, two astronauts soon to leave the earth hold a press conference. A question about how he feels about the upcoming space flight takes Ma Fei back 30 years to his childhood. In 1990, a crowd of journalists is waiting for the...

Flash Forward

• Mexico
• 2019
• 94min

Max and Leo moved from Mexico to USA with their mother Lucia. She says that they will live a better life now, but the kids are locked up in a shabby studio in the daytime and fast asleep before she returns home exhausted at night....

World Cinema

• Israel,Germany
• 2019
• 112min

Rashi has been a police officer for 16 years, a guardian of others and the law, always in control. Despite his constant exposure to violence, he dearly hopes to have a child with his wife Avigail. Then Rashi’s world is shaken. He ...

• Berlin International Film Festival Panorama

World Cinema

• Israel,Germany
• 2019
• 108min

Avigail is the perfect mother, wife to Rashi, and nurse. She sacrifices herself for everyone, but deep inside she feels alienated and directs her anger against herself. Yael is a wounded daughter, abandoned by her parents, she wan...

World Cinema

• Israel,Germany
• 2019
• 120min

34-year-old Alice’s recent success in the literary world is upset by disturbing feelings of anxiety. Invasive images of sexual abuse haunt her and panic attacks intensify, leaving her stripped of all confidence and desire for huma...

• Venice International Film Festival Orrizzonti

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2019
• 96min

Chan-sil, who quit her job as a film producer, moves to the top of the hill on the outskirts. The old lady, the owner of the rented house, is somewhat strange. What′s even stranger is the ghost that appears often in this haunted h...

New Currents

• Korea
• 2019
• 90min

It′s a bizarre and perverse debut that we′ve seen in a long time. It starts out tacky at first and then becomes bewildered in the middle and brutal at the end. DO Maeng-su, a weak and timid citizen is a debtor who owes a lot. He g...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Bhutan
• 2019
• 110min

Pawo Choyning DORJI invites us to the most remote place in Bhutan, the happiest country in the world. Lunara, a very small village with only 56 people at 4,800 meters above sea level, has the most remote school on earth. The city ...