A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2018
• 127min

On a beautiful rocky island that looks like a giant abalone, young people sparsely sit and talk on their cell phones. One of them, Intoy, ends a call with his sister living abroad and returns to town. This rocky island is the best...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2018
• 136min

42-year-old loser Iwao needs to get laid, like, yesterday. He makes a move on a colleague at the pachinko parlor but goes home simply embarrassed. When he returns, his father has passed away, and he has a wife, bought in the Phili...

Wide Angle

• France,Switzerland
• 2018
• 507min

Mao Zedong’s era was called the “Great Leap Forward” but in China’s modern history, the era ended with a “great famine.” In 1957, the country’s Baihua movement faced criticism. Regarding the opponents as anti-right-wing, Mao puts ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2018
• 159min

Best known for Three Idiots and PK in Korea, director Rajikumar Hirani is one of the few figures respected and recognized by both critics and the public at the Indian box office, typically dominated by commercial Bollywood films. ...

Midnight Passion

• Denmark
• 2018
• 153min

America in the 1970s. We follow the highly intelligent Jack through five incidents and are introduced to the murders that define Jack’s development as a serial killer. We experience the story from Jack’s point of view. He views ea...

BUSAN Classic

• Thailand
• 2018
• 133min

The Scar tells the simplest of love stories. Cherd Songsri (who co-wrote the film under the pseudonym “Thom Thatree” as well as directing it) called it a film about an “immaculate love”. It’s based on a story published in the 1930...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2018
• 17min

After sudden unification, the Korean peninsula is struggling with economic chaos. An old laborer, Chan-ki, receives a new high-tech telephone from his son in China and goes to seek help from his neighbor, as he does not know how t...

Wide Angle

• Indonesia
• 2018
• 15min

Isfi is the lead troublemaker among a group of boys in male uniform, but is a little smaller and prettier than the rest. When going over to friend Nita’s house, Isfi must wear a hijab. Two days before Nita’s birthday, Isfi leaves ...

World Cinema

• Hungary,France
• 2018
• 142min

Irisz Leiter goes to Budapest′s most famous hat store, ‘Leiter’ to work there. Her father used to run it, but a new owner has taken it over. One day, while busy working for important guests, a strange man approaches Irisz and asks...

New Currents

• Korea
• 2018
• 70min

Because she gets no love from her indifferent parents, high school student Sunhee craves popularity at school. When assigned to sit behind Jungmee, she lies to become friends with her. She must keep up the lie to keep up appearanc...