Special Programs in Focus

• Philippines
• 2018
• 136min

In Colonial Philippines, after his mother’s death, naive Kulas begins his much-awaited trip to Manila. On his way to the city, he mindlessly takes on the mission of retrieving a friar’s son and bringing him to the friar’s residenc...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2018
• 119min

Asako’s life feels empty and banal after her first love Baku suddenly disappeared 2 years ago. She’s attracted to Ryohei who looks like Baku but has a totally different personality. Her heart stirs again, but she doesn’t know whet...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• SriLanka
• 2018
• 98min

The director Asoka Handagama is well known for breaking taboos in style and content, ever since his career started in theater and television. One night, Asandhi calls a renowned film director who used to be her college mate. The d...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China,France
• 2018
• 136min

This is the latest film by Jia Zhangke, the director most representative of Chinese art cinema. In 2001, in Datong, Shanxi, China, local beauty Qiao Qiao and Bin, a young tough, are in love. One day, when Bin is attacked on the st...

World Cinema

• France
• 2018
• 114min

A film about the closure of a large factory and labor struggles. The film begins with negotiations between labor and management. After the company declared a fiscal crisis two years earlier, the laborers voluntarily made sacrifice...

New Currents

• Kyrgyzstan
• 2018
• 101min

A unique and dazzling black comedy from Kyrgyzstan. The Central Asian arthouse and independent cinema has been influenced by the Soviet cinema and history. Lately, there are a number of interesting and outstanding films coming up ...

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

• Korea
• 2018
• 31min

A man and a woman suddenly learn that they are spies. What and who did they work the last ten years for? A question arises between the two when they confront each other.

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2018
• 123min

There is an explosion in a drug-manufacturing lab owned by Asia’s biggest drug cartels. Yeon-ok (Kim Sung-ryung) believes that the explosion was intended to kill her, and approaches detective Won-ho (Cho Jin-woong) with informatio...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2018
• 98min

Hae-soo, a mysterious woman taking various kinds of drugs, moves to a rural city where nobody knows her. There, she opens a cafe and starts a new life. She becomes closer to Ye-jin, a high school student and regular customer, afte...