Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2024
• 112min

Yeong-eun (Kwak Sun-young), a swimming instructor, lives alone with So-hyun, her 7-year-old daughter. So-hyun exhibits increasingly violent tendencies, which are spiraling out of control. 20 years later, new characters emerge: Min...

World Cinema

• France
• 2024
• 94min

Souleymane is an asylum seeker from Guinea, Africa, who delivers food by bike in Paris. He’s two days away from an important interview to gain legal residency, but his day-to-day life as a refugee and delivery worker is precarious...

• Cannes Un certain regard Jury Award, Best Actor Award

Wide Angle

• Belgium/France/Netherlands
• 2024
• 151min

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat relentlessly tracks a hidden segment of Cold War history with rhythm and insight. What connection might there be between Louis Armstrong and uranium, the primary material for atomic bombs? The film reca...

• Sundance World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematic Innovation

Opening Film & Closing Film

• France/Singapore/Japan
• 2024
• 94min

Claire (Catherine Deneuve), a world-renowned chanson singer, falls into grief after losing her beloved pet dog. Believing in staying true to her profession during tough times, she travels to Tokyo for a concert. There, Yuzo (Sakai...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2024
• 67min

Director Kang Mija, who gained attention with Let the Blue River Run (2008), has released her second feature film after several years. Based on the eponymous short story from Kwon Yeo-seon’s collection Good-bye, Drunkard, the film...

• 2024 ACF Post-Production Fund Recipient

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India/United States/Vietnam
• 2024
• 107min

The father, who “ran, ran, and flew” from the source of the Mekong River, sings to his young daughter. Yangchen, who lives in India, meets with her sister, who has returned from France for their mother’s funeral, and reveals the w...

Wide Angle

• Indonesia
• 2024
• 22min

In Suintrah, Jor and his son move to a remote village due to financial difficulties. The villagers are extremely quiet and have superhuman hearing abilities. What is the source of their fear? (PARK Sungho)

A Window on Asian Cinema

• France/Japan
• 2024
• 95min

A new work by director Igarashi Kohei, widely known for The Night I Swam. Sano revisits the hotel where he first met his wife five years ago, searching for traces of his deceased wife. He harbors a vain hope of finding the red cap...

• Venice Venice Days

Icons

• France
• 2024
• 106min

From director Olivier Assayas, the creator behind Personal Shopper (2016) and Clouds of Sils Maria (2014), comes this deeply personal film about his experiences during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, when borders were closed. Broth...

• Berlin Competition

Special Program in Focus

• Japan
• 2024
• 88min

A film adaptation of a play made by a high school drama club, directed by Yamashita Nobuhiro of Linda Linda Linda (2006). It’s essentially a coming-of-age film about teenagers made by teenagers. During summer vacation, at a high s...