Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2023
• 84min

Nine-year-old Si-woo often cries at night, missing his late mother. In those moments, his father Min Byung-hun embraces him, offering comfort and solace. The bereaved father and son’s days are burdened with sadness, solitude, and ...

World Cinema

• Denmark/Sweden/Germany
• 2023
• 127min

After winning the Silver Bear at the Berlinale with A Royal Affair (2012), director Nikolaj Arcel and Mads Mikkelsen have collaborated once again to create another epic historical drama. Set in the mid-18th century, Captain Rudvig...

• Venice Competition

Wide Angle

• China
• 2023
• 14min

In the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, a young couple secretly enjoys a date. The man is eager to spend one last good night with his girlfriend, who is about to leave for a city to find a job, but reality flows in an unexpected dire...

Wide Angle

• Armenia/Serbia
• 2023
• 16min

In the immediate aftermath of the war, mistrust and defeatism prevail among Armenians. Satenik searches for footage of captured soldiers being illegally tortured in hopes of finding her brother, who disappeared during the war. (PA...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2023
• 20min

Bong-sik dies after committing a heinous crime. Yet, even before the god of the underworld, he remains unrepentant and earns a hundred years of the severest punishment. Now, a hundred years later, Bong-sik receives a new karma, ac...

Icons

• Hong Kong, China
• 2023
• 102min

Ann Hui, a director known for vividly depicting the dynamic lives of the people of contemporary Hong Kong society, brings to life a long-cherished project: an examination of contemporary Hong Kong poetry. In Elegies, Ann Hui inter...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2023
• 100min

The Night of the Factory Girls begins with contemplations on what existed in the past but have disappeared or left untold and forgotten in the present, reluctantly starting with Shimizu Hiroshi’s Keijo because the first Korean doc...

New Currents

• Japan
• 2023
• 127min

Sanae goes to prison after she fails in an attempt to murder her boyfriend. Six years later, she meets and marries Kenta, a forestry worker. Their marriage takes a new turn when the wife of Sanae’s ex-boyfriend shows up at the doo...

Special Program in Focus

• Hong Kong, China
• 2023
• 95min

Saying that there are no longer any rules in this world, Chow Yun Fat storms into Fung Lim Restaurant alone to avenge the betrayal and arrest of his friend Sung Tse-Ho. The door opens in slow motion as Chow’s character unflinching...

Opening Film & Closing Film

• China
• 2023
• 125min

In 2006, Ning Hao delighted his fans in Busan with the closing film, Crazy Stone, at the Busan International Film Festival. This year, he returns after seventeen years with another closing film, The Movie Emperor, joined by the al...