Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2023
• 121min

House of the Seasons is a unique film that weaves the intricate family stories of three generations into a mysterious and atmospheric narrative. Seong-jin heads to his family home for a jesa, memorial ceremony. Seong-jin’s family ...

Wide Angle

• India/France
• 2023
• 97min

Against the Tide follows the lives of two friends who work as fishermen in Mumbai. It is a film filled with tender, incisive, and poignant moments. Trawling in shallow waters using traditional methods of the Koli community, Rakesh...

• Sundance World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award

Wide Angle

• Nepal
• 2023
• 15min

As Sridhar prepares for his coming-of-age celebration, his grandfather tells him a shocking story about his family. As he pushes for the truth, his mother is caught in a dilemma between wanting to protect him and wanting to be hon...

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• Romania/Luxembourg/France/Croatia
• 2023
• 163min

Angela spends her days and nights traveling around the city of Bucharest, looking for potential candidates to make appearance in a “safe at work” video commissioned by a multinational company. Whenever the overworked Angela hits a...

• Locarno Special Jury Prize

New Currents

• Malaysia/Singapore/France
• 2023
• 90min

A mother and a daughter secretly meet once every few weeks on a secluded staircase in an old apartment building. The mother, an undocumented Vietnamese in Malaysia, believes that her daughter’s best future lies in living with a Ma...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2023
• 76min

Min-woo, a young man who works at a community center in a small village, lives with his father and grandmother and often hangs out with his best friend Sung-hoon. The weather doesn’t always favor the farmers, and Min-woo continues...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2023
• 101min

Choi Jinri is the real name of the South Korean celebrity known by her stage name Sulli. Using her real name in the title, Dear Jinri is the product of efforts to get to know her through her last interview, given before she took h...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Mongolia/France/Switzerland/Qatar
• 2023
• 99min

“If only we could hibernate like bears in the winter, never get cold, never catch the flu,” says Ulzii’s younger brother. Ulzii’s family lives in a hut in Ulaanbaatar. His mother has gone to the countryside for work, leaving the y...

• Cannes Un certain regard

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• Italy/France
• 2023
• 95min

Italian filmmaker Giovanni (Nanni Moretti) is preparing a movie about the conscience of the Italian Communist Party in 1956. Should the Italian Communist Party side with the Soviet Union or support the independent Hungary? This di...

• Cannes Competition

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2023
• 99min

Kim Chang-in, a self-proclaimed democratic socialist, and Kim Hyun-jin, who calls himself an “extremely moderate centrist,” are ordinary youth of the Republic of Korea. Chang-in is motivated to become involved in politics after se...

• 2023 ACF AND Fund Recipient