A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2018
• 77min

The film explores time and facial expression. The camera does capture the landscape, but is microscopic in its capture of human expressions, even detailing emotions. Tsai Ming-Liang uses 13 faces to create his own genre that is ne...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2018
• 95min

The film beautifully portrays miraculous moments in Bulbul’s oppressed life, a teenage girl living in India’s Assam region. The film depicts the power of pioneering a harsh life, close friendships and miraculous moments that look ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2018
• 130min

Jung Sung-il has divided his film about Im Kwon-taek into two parts. This distinction is not simply a convenient decision (due to the long running time). The stories in the first part Gravity of the Tea, continue sequentially into...

World Cinema

• France
• 2018
• 108min

Alain, who runs a publishing company, refuses to publish Leonardo’s new novel because it deals repeatedly too much with his personal relationship and break-up. Alain is skeptical of any creation limited to the author′s personal ex...

World Cinema

• France,Spain,Italy
• 2018
• 135min

The new film by Asghar Farhadi, featuring Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem and set in Spain, opened the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. Laura, a Spanish woman living in Buenos Aires, visits her hometown in the suburbs of Madrid with her...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2018
• 26min

A couple plans to commemorate their relationship of three years, even though they do not have much money. They are about to go shopping and spend time in an amusement park, but one by one things seem to go wrong.

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2018
• 17min

In April 1920, the Japanese army slaughtered Koreans living in Vladivostok. They also executed Korean revolutionaries such as Kim Afanasi and Alexandra Petrovna Kim before the forced migration of 1937. The scenes of Korean genoc...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2018
• 93min

Jeongbong (Lim Wonhui) and Seong-hye (Shin Soyul) left Seoul and run a guesthouse on Jeju Island. At the end of summer, unexpected guests come to their guesthouse. Ingu (Jeon Seokho), Seong-hye’s ex-lover, and Chaeyun (Jeong Yeonj...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2018
• 29min

A couple finds they are going to have the baby they waited so long for. But they learn that the baby might have Down syndrome after they take an amniotic fluid test. As the pregnancy continues, they are deep in a dilemma, not know...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2018
• 25min

Jin-hua and Jin-tien are twin sisters. Quiet and shy Jin-tien is an animal trainer at an aquarium. When her sister suddenly goes missing, Jin-tien must stand in for her in a magic show. While inside the box, she is confronted with...