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• France/Luxembourg/Netherlands
• 2023
• 215min

Located 150 kilometers outside of Shanghai, Zhili is the heart of China’s textile industry and attracts youths from rural regions along the Yangzi River. Wang Bing, one of the greatest filmmakers of our time, steps into this world...

• Cannes Competition

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2023
• 15min

Two strangers have an argument in an empty field in the early morning. When the argument escalates, the two are sent to the First-Encounter Dispute Resolution Committee, where they are asked three questions. Seesawing between clic...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Bhutan/United States/France/Taiwan
• 2023
• 107min

In 2006, television and internet have finally arrived in Bhutan, and the nation, which has been a monarchy, is gearing up for its first-ever election in history. The upcoming election sets people at odds with each other, as some s...

• Toronto Centrepiece

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• France
• 2023
• 150min

Following Sibyl (2019), Justine Triet has directed a thriller structured like a puzzle composed of appearances and sounds, truth and lies, and reality and illusions. Writer couple Sandra and Samuel live in a cabin in the woods wit...

• Cannes Palme d′Or

Special Program in Focus

• Indonesia
• 2023
• 15min

Dika is an adolescent with extraordinary sensitivity. His parents want to have a ritual to turn their son back to “normal.” An imam is summoned to chase the jinn away, but his actions may be just a performance. (PARK Sungho)

• Locarno Competition

Special Program in Focus

• United States
• 2023
• 104min

A Korean-born man finds himself stuck in Columbus, Indiana, where his architect father is in a coma. The man meets a young woman who wants to stay in Columbus with her mother, a recovering addict, instead of pursuing her own dream...

• Sundance Best of Next

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran/Germany
• 2023
• 99min

Critical Zone is the sensational film that won the Golden Leopard at Locarno despite the Iranian government banning its director from leaving the country and attempting to cancel its screening. The film not only features a woman w...

• Locarno Golden Leopard

World Cinema

• Austria/Germany/France/United Kingdom
• 2023
• 110min

Veteran Austrian filmmaker Jessica Hausner makes films that question conventional beliefs and reveal the absurdities that these beliefs create. Her journey began in earnest with her fourth feature, Lourdes (2009), a film about fai...

• Cannes Competition

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• Spain/Argentina
• 2023
• 169min

One of the most deeply personal and moving films of this year, Close Your Eyes, is the fourth feature film by Victor Erice, a filmmaker who has created three masterpieces over fifty years: The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), El Sur ...

• Cannes Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2023
• 178min

In the Great East Japan Earthquake, a young girl named Luca loses her family and is left with a disability that prevents her from speaking properly. She can, however, make her voice heard when she sings. When she remembers that he...