Opening Film & Closing Film

• Korea,France
• 2018
• 104min

Zhen Chen (Jang Dong-yoon) visits Korea when his Korean-Chinese father asks to see his wife once again before he dies. When he finds his mother, she is not what he expected. Working in a bar and living with some hoodlum, Chen...

Wide Angle

• UK,Netherlands,Czech Republic
• 2018
• 82min

A street kid, Niku, lives under the protection of the king of Bucharest’s underground world, who calls himself Bruce Lee. He propagates a strange philosophy by applying silver paint to his hair that homeless street boys sniff inst...

World Cinema

• Ireland
• 2018
• 99min

It’s 1847, and Ireland is in the grip of the Great Famine that has ravaged the country for two long years. Feeney, a hardened Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, abandons his post to return home and re-...

BUSAN Classic

• Czech Republic
• 2018
• 90min

The first feature film completed in Czechoslovakia by director Milos Forman, the digitally restored film chronicles somewhat introverted and timid Czech boy Peter′s meaningless daily routine. Peter starts working as a security gua...

World Cinema

• United States
• 2018
• 128min

Blaze is inspired by the life of Blaze Foley, the unsung songwriting legend of the Texas outlaw music movement that spawned the likes of Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson. The film weaves together three different periods of time, br...

Wide Angle

• Tajikistan
• 2018
• 25min

1992. Many in Tajikistan have been killed, injured, or disappeared due to the Soviet civil war. Umed’s father is among the missing, after leaving to report on the war. One day a letter is delivered, and Umed reads it in silence.

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan,France
• 2018
• 109min

French journalist Jeanne arrives in the mountains of Japan, in search of a rare medicinal herb, Vision, fabled to appear once every 997 years. Jeanne seeks out the taciturn Tomo and eccentric Aki in order to ask them about this he...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2018
• 100min

Soonyeong and Jaegu are a couple running a garage on the country′s border. Their business is poor due to trucks traveling to and from nearby resort construction sites; cars from other regions hardly come by. Then one day, after so...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2018
• 90min

The film is a satirical comedy based on current Iranian politics, with hilarious actions by impulsive characters. Samadhi is a busy right-wing activist, making trouble with everyone and taking on roles no one asked of him. He is s...

New Currents

• China
• 2018
• 93min

In a city in southern China, there has been no rain during the summer. A girl taking a summer vacation is struggling with essay homework, but she has no idea about what to write. Her mother’s ordinary routine is to nag at her idle...