Special Programs in Focus 2

• Malaysia
• 2019
• 95min

Mukhsin is the last installment in the ′Orked′ trilogy, which tells the story of the life of a girl named Orked. In line with Yasmin AHMAD’s other films, which have dealt with teenage love that transcends ethnic and religious diff...

Wide Angle

• Iran,UK
• 2019
• 72min

Mahdieh, a photographer who has been covering anti-government protests in Iran, is unable to continue her work due to the government crackdown. Ironically, her father is a mullah (a leader of a mosque) and an adamant supporter of ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2019
• 102min

How can we describe 27-year-old Musoon KWON? A part-time employee at a franchise store? A musician in a band? A boxer? Or unemployed? Musoon introduces himself in front of the camera. His family broke apart in the aftermath of the...

New Currents

• Japan
• 2019
• 63min

Ray, a mid-teen girl, lives with her Taiwanese mother, but runs away from home to avoid her mother’s beating and abuse. Ray calls for help in the street and meets Aoi, ends up staying overnight in Aoi’s apartment. The next evening...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2019
• 24min

Myeong-hak visits Hae-ryeon’s house in Daelim-dong for an interview commissioned by a local broadcasting station in Yeon-gil. Myeonghak spends a day with them while filming Haeryeon’s family.

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan,Malaysia,Myanmar
• 2019
• 103min

The Chinese Myanmar director Midi Z chellenged reinventing his style with this psychological thriller. Nina Wu, a girl used to live in a small town playing at a local theater, leaves for a big city to fulfill her dream to become a...

• Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2019
• 117min

Jogi was a Bhaona dancer, which is a colorful and traditional dance in Northern India. To make a living, he became a boatman crossing the river. As he is obsessed with violent suicidal impulse, he overthrows the boat carrying pass...

• 2019 ACF Post-Production Fund / APM 2018

Wide Angle

• Indonesia
• 2019
• 21min

The resort owner of a quiet island tries to remove all the crazy people from the village because he doesn′t want to show them to foreign tourists. But the village′s profits are actually made in unexpected ways… (PARK Sungho)

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong,China
• 2019
• 126min

Hong Kong in the 1960s. Mrs. Yu lives at No. 7 Cherry Lane with her mysteriously charming teenage daughter Meiling. When Ziming, a university student, becomes an English tutor to Meiling, a special bond begins to form between the ...

• Best Screenplay Award at Venice International Film Festival In Competition

Wide Angle

• China
• 2019
• 107min

Ma Xiang is a troubled 14-year-old boy who lives with his grandparents in a mountain village in China. Two years ago, his mother left home after a domestic violence incident, and his father is in jail. Ma Xiang is just a boy missi...