Jiseok

• Korea
• 2023
• 175min

After a decade of false starts and failed projects, film director Si-won (Park Jong-hwan) is about to make a mountain movie. However, the film faces another setback, and then the director’s pet cat Luca dies. In the depths of desp...

Jiseok

• Japan
• 2023
• 125min

On August 12, 2015, Hasegawa proposes to Ichiko. She is moved to tears by his proposal, but the next day, when she sees the news on TV, she suddenly leaves the house as if in shock. Where has she gone? Hasegawa reports her missing...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2023
• 22min

Na-eun and Yeon-su live together in a small room. For two hours a day, Yeon-su becomes invisible. The man who keeps on vanishing, the woman left behind. Throughout this enigmatic and intriguing film, colors, screen ratios, visuals...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Jordan/France/Saudi Arabia/Qatar
• 2023
• 113min

Inshallah a Boy was the first Jordanian film ever to be invited to the Cannes Film Festival. A woman, whose husband suddenly dies leaving her to raise her young daughter alone, faces the prospect of losing both her home and custod...

• Cannes Critics′ Week

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2023
• 119min

One Second Ahead, One Second Behind is a Japanese remake of the successful Taiwanese film My Missing Valentine (2020). Under the direction of Yamashita Nobuhiro, best known for A Gentle Breeze in the Village (2007) and Linda Linda...

Special Program in Focus

• Indonesia/United States/Korea
• 2023
• 107min

One evening, Maya is attacked by a stranger who calls her “Rahayu” and reveals to an unknown secret about her family before he is killed by the police. When Maya learns that her parents own a house in a faraway village, she and he...

• Rotterdam Voices

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2023
• 26min

Even before Yeon-ju finishes unpacking, her older sister Seon-ju unexpectedly barges into the cramped room, not large enough for the household items, and old possessions that fill it. Empowered by impressive performances of the ac...

Special Program in Focus

• United States/Indonesia
• 2023
• 93min

Jamojaya tells the story of James, a young Indonesian rapper with a rising career who is soon to have his debut album in U.S., and his father, who is still mourning the death of James’s brother. Their relationship is put to the te...

• Sundance Premieres

Special Program in Focus

• Indonesia
• 2023
• 85min

Ninety-year-old Mbah Sri decides to travel to look for her husband, who has never returned after going to war in the 1940s. Her only wish is to be buried next to her husband grave when she dies. This unusual road movie is a slow b...

Jiseok

• Bangladesh
• 2023
• 82min

Farhan, a director, and Tithi, an actress, are a married couple living in Dhaka. In the conservative and patriarchal Muslim society, they face criticism for not having kids even though they have been married for ten years. When he...