Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2024
• 126min

The face of Hwanhee is the second feature film by director Lee Jeahan, who previously directed the tender and delicate debut film, Sophie’s World (2021). Composed of four chapters? House of a writer, The Visitors, To the never nev...

Special Program in Focus

• Portugal
• 2024
• 107min

Francisco, a grumbling school teacher experiences an existential crisis on his thirtieth birthday. He contracts a severe case of measles like a child, and ends up confined to a countryside house under the care of seven men. Who ar...

• Locarno Film delle giurie

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2024
• 105min

The Final Semester is the extraordinary story of an ordinary student named Chang-woo, who is in the final semester at a vocational high school. Chang-woo is doing an internship at a small to medium-sized company’s factory and find...

• 2023 APM Project

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2024
• 114min

Director Ryu Hyung-seok, who served as a conscripted firefighter during his mandatory military service, made a documentary about firefighters. Responding to calls from those on the edge of life and death, these modern-day heroes a...

World Cinema

• Denmark/Poland/Sweden
• 2024
• 122min

In the early 20th century, Karoline, desperate to make ends meet while working at a textile factory that produces military supplies, suddenly finds herself out on the streets. Pregnant with an illegitimate child, she wanders throu...

• Cannes Competition

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2024
• 105min

Lucas cannot hear sounds, but he grows up with dignity thanks to those who care for him and respect his intelligence. Father Mejor, the priest of the remote fishing village where Lucas lives, is highly respected for promising the ...

New Currents

• Japan
• 2024
• 100min

Du Jie, who had been in the spotlight as a cinematographer for blockbuster commercial films in China such as No Man’s Land (2013), SAVAGE (2018), and Moon Man (2022), emigrated to Japan three years ago where he completed his direc...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2024
• 119min

Ernest Hemingway’s influential short story The Killers (1927), has been adapted to film by Robert Siodmak and Andrei Tarkovsky, while Edward Hopper’s painting Nighthawks (1942) is also said to have been inspired by the story. The ...

New Currents

• Korea
• 2024
• 114min

One night, a young sailor disappears. The old captain reports that the sailor fell into the sea, causing an uproar in the village. The sailor’s mother waits by the dock every day for her son to return. It soon comes to light that ...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2024
• 13min

The Last Day is the story of a mother whose son is in prison. While they console their grief by sharing the last meal she brought, outside the room, bored prison staff are preparing the execution. (PARK Sungho)