World Cinema
DonbassCaricaturing the war and division in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine, Donbass addresses the country’s current status with disconnected places and episodes. In various spaces, such as streets, conference halls, gynecologists’...
Wide Angle
DownA couple finds they are going to have the baby they waited so long for. But they learn that the baby might have Down syndrome after they take an amniotic fluid test. As the pregnancy continues, they are deep in a dilemma, not know...
Wide Angle
Down ThereA woman’s desperate scream is heard on a summer night. Residents of the apartment building wonder at the sound, but ignore it. What happens down there becomes something that never happened if no one saw it. A fearfully cold look i...
Open Cinema
Dying to SurviveBased on true events that took place in China. Cheng Yong is a poor, divorced man of no consequence who owns an Indian herbal oil shop. His life is turned upside down when a man appears and grants him exclusive sales rights to “Gr...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
Eoh Wu-dongEoh Wu-dong (1985) is a representative erotic movie of Lee Jang-ho, with the movie Between the Knees (1984). During the Joseon Dynasty reign of King Seongjong, Eoh Wu-dong born of a noble family, falls in love with a lowly man. Th...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Every Day a Good DayUnlike her lively cousin, Noriko has no hobbies, no ambitions, and doesn’t know what she wants to do with her life. Her mother suggests that she join a class to learn traditional tea ceremony, and though reluctant at first, Noriko...
World Cinema
Everybody KnowsThe new film by Asghar Farhadi, featuring Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem and set in Spain, opened the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. Laura, a Spanish woman living in Buenos Aires, visits her hometown in the suburbs of Madrid with her...
Wide Angle
Fahrenheit 11/9Fahrenheit 11/9 is a 2018 American political documentary by one of its most controversial filmmakers: Michael Moore. The documentary explores two questions: How the United States progressed to the Trump presidency, and how to “get...
BUSAN Classic
Farewell My ConcubineThis 1993 film was directed by Chen Kaige, who represents the Fifth Generation movement in China. Growing up together in a drama troupe, two boys Dieyi and Xiaolou eventually become Peking Opera stars after years of tough training...
World Cinema
First ManThe riveting story of NASA’s mission to land the first man on the moon, focusing on legendary astronaut Neil Armstrong in the years 1961 to 1969, leading up to the Apollo 11 mission. It’s an origin story for a real-life superhero ...