Special Program in Focus

• Portugal/Germany/Brazil/France
• 2024
• 119min

Can one imagine 2012 without Tabu and Holy Motors? Tabu was a blessing for cinephiles and remains one of the greatest films since the 21st century In Lisbon, Aurora, near death, dreams of reuniting with her old lover Gian Luca aga...

• Berline Competition FIPRESCI Prize

New Currents

• Indonesia/Philippines/Taiwan/Qatar
• 2024
• 99min

May has lost everything. Now, she lives a self-sustaining life in a shabby house floating on the sea. Long ago, she lived on land with her family as a Dayak native, but due to mining development, she lost her land and was rescued ...

• 2021 APM Project

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2024
• 117min

Tango at Dawn tells the story of three women. Ji-won, who is clear-cut and straightforward, is hiding out and securing a job at a factory after being swindled by a friend; Ju-hui, Ji-won’s roommate, who is kind to everyone and alw...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2024
• 20min

The Black Dog is about Mo, a husband and father, who worries a lot about losing his wife to cancer and raising their 10-year-old daughter alone. His daughter finds him crying out in his sleep. (PARK Sungho)

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2024
• 101min

A new film by female animation director Yamada Naoko, who directed A Silent Voice (2016) and Liz and the Blue Bird (2018). The team that worked with Yamada Naoko, including screenwriter Yoshida Reiko and music composer Ushio Kensu...

• Annecy Competition

Midnight Passion

• United Kingdom/Iceland/Ireland/Belgium
• 2024
• 89min

Eva, a 19th-century widow is tasked with making an impossible choice when, in the middle of an especially cruel winter, a ship sinks off the coast of her isolated fishing post. Eva and her crew must choose to either rescue the shi...

World Cinema

• Italy/United States/Belgium
• 2024
• 88min

Minervini, who achieved success with three documentaries, made a comeback with a drama and won the Best Director award in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival. He has dug into the soil of American society thro...

• Cannes Un certain regard Best Director Award

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2024
• 20min

Taesan and Dongju are a long-time couple. As they prepare to move, they find an old sofa on the street and bring it home. Their cramped apartment, now filled with the sofa, the couple preparing for their move, and their dreams, ar...

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• France/Germany/Italy/Belgium/Portugal
• 2024
• 111min

It’s been a full 25 years since BIFF introduced Dumont’s second film, and he has since become an unparalleled auteur. Yet, the dizzying experience of watching Humanity (1999) for the first time remains intact, making him a filmmak...

• Berlin Silver Bear Jury Prize

Flash Forward

• Denmark/Germany/Ireland/Italy/United Kingdom/Sweden
• 2024
• 148min

Twenty years after doomsday, one of the last remaining families on earth are hiding in a luxurious bunker concealed deep inside salt mines. But the sudden arrival of a Girl seeking asylum shakes their seemingly perfect life, and t...

• Toronto Special Presentations, San Sebastian Official Selection