A Window on Asian Cinema

• India/France
• 2023
• 132min

Kanu Behl′s latest feature explores sexuality in the context of India’s patriarchal society through the prism of a man’s sexual discontent. Guru, a young man who works in a call center, lives with his mother on the first floor of ...

• Cannes Directors′ Fortnight, 2015 APM Project

World Cinema

• Italy
• 2023
• 127min

Stefano Sollima has ascended to the ranks of film noir masters with Adagio, the story of a young boy living with natural disaster, a corrupt society, and his father’s crimes. Sixteen-year-old Manuel receives an instruction from a ...

• Venice Competition

World Cinema

• Italy
• 2023
• 125min

Italian film noir is entering a renaissance, and Andrea Di Stefano establishes himself as a master of the movement with The Last Night of Amore. On the eve of his honorable retirement, Inspector Franco Amore receives the news that...

• Berlin Special Gala

Wide Angle

• United Kingdom/Afghanistan/Iran
• 2023
• 65min

Hana Makhmalbaf’s The List begins where her father Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s Talking with Rivers leaves off. When the US troops withdraw in August 2021, Afghanistan fell into the Taliban’s hands, and the fate of anti-Taliban artists and...

Icons

• Japan
• 2023
• 106min

A collaboration with Eiko Ishibashi, who composed the music for Drive My Car (2021), to create a performance video accidentally became a feature-length film, Evil Does Not Exist. Eiko Ishibashi’s music leaves a strong impression a...

• Venice Grand Jury Prize

Special Screening

• Korea
• 2023
• 79min

Director Kim Soo-yong’s 1967 film, Mist, eloquently conveys the unspeakable. Adapted directly by Kim Seung-ok himself from his novel, Record of a Journey to Mujin, this film is generally detailed, but at times, abstract and bold. ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2023
• 83min

A father, son, daughter-in-law, and grandson operate an inn in a desolate, rural town that once had a movie theater and many tourists but has fallen into decay. The son wants to sell the inn, but the daughter-in-law wants to keep ...

• San Sebastian New Directors

World Cinema

• Argentina/Spain
• 2023
• 87min

Sixteen-year-old Lola has the opportunity to embark on a student exchange program to Germany. However, as her older sister, who is afflicted with a mental illness, repeatedly turns the household upside down, that chance slips furt...

• San Sebastian Horizontes Latinos

Open Cinema

• France
• 2023
• 128min

The French film The Animal Kingdom is a unique science fiction. This spectacular sci-fi takes the audience into the strange world of animal-humans who are both fragile and powerful. Mutations are occurring all over the Earth. Medi...

• Cannes Un certain regard Opening Film

Special Program in Focus

• Indonesia
• 2023
• 15min

Aditya is a personal assistant serving a Hindu guru who is a charismatic spiritual leader. He develops romantic feelings toward a new innocent recruit, but is helpless against exploits by power and authority. (PARK Sungho)