Special Program in Focus

• Malaysia/Taiwan/Singapore/France/Germany/Netherlands/Indonesia/Qatar
• 2024
• 96min

For 12-year-old Zaffan, starting her period is not a gift but a sin. Her mother blames her for showing signs of femininity, and her best friends bully her for being unclean. When the all-too-natural process of secondary puberty co...

• Cannes Critics′ Week

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Malaysia/Hong Kong, China
• 2024
• 98min

Once the top horsemen, friends Saina and Hasa now perform in traditional horse shows to make a living. Unlike Hasa who sells all his horses and sheep after deciding to move to the city, Saina tries to hold on to his beloved horses...

• 2023 ACF Script Development Fund Recipient, 2023 APM Project

Jiseok

• Japan
• 2024
• 94min

The third feature film by Ishibashi Yuho, who won the Japan Cuts award at the Osaka Asian Film Festival with When Morning Comes, I Feel Empty (2022). The film delicately conveys the memory of first love and the sense of loss, movi...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Mongolia
• 2024
• 78min

In a small village hospital on the outskirts of Mongolia, a hostage situation unfolds. The perpetrator holds the village’s only doctor, along with nurses, a cook, and patients, demanding an enormous ransom. As the local police, ov...

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2024
• 89min

In a mysterious and surreal interzone somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg, the lives of multiple characters interweave with each other in surprising and mysterious ways. Grade schoolers Negin and Nazgol find a sum of money froze...

• Cannes Directors′ Fortnight Audience Award

Opening Film & Closing Film

• Korea
• 2024
• 127min

Cheon-yeong (Gang Dong-won) is the personal servant of Jong-ryeo (Park Jeong-min), the only son of a noble family with a powerful military background. The two are extremely close, having grown up together since childhood. Cheon-ye...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2024
• 30min

A couple who have broken up and reunited experience intimate yet unfamiliar moments. The tattoo on the man’s back keeps changing, and in moments where it becomes difficult to tell whether we are in a dream, a fantasy, or reality, ...

World Cinema

• Italy/France/Belgium
• 2024
• 120min

In 1944, in the mountainous village of Vermiglio in northern Italy, lives the only teacher in the village and his big family. Their quiet life is disrupted by Pietro, a reserved soldier who arrives in the village to escape the war...

• Venice Grand Jury Prize

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines/Singapore/France/Netherlands/Italy/Germany/Vietnam
• 2024
• 129min

The tunnels of the mine where two miners, Viet and Nam, go down every day are not only a hot, dark, and dangerous workplace but also a warm and cozy universe for just the two of them. Born as a posthumous child Nam has the life-lo...

• Cannes Un certain regard

Jiseok

• India/Singapore
• 2024
• 107min

Village Rockstars 2, the latest work by Rima Das, revisits the life of Dhunu, seven years after the events of Village Rockstars (2017). Living in a small rural village in Assam, Dhunu lives with her ailing mother, who is growing w...