Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2022
• 119min

Yeondu (Noh Yoon-seo) asks her best friend Bora (Kim You-jung) to collect all the information she can about Baek Hyunjin (Park Jung-woo) while she is away in the U.S. for heart surgery. Bora decides to get close to Baek’s best ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2022
• 75min

Juhee (Kim Jooryung), a professor of theater, is diagnosed with a possible malignant tumor at the hospital. She goes back to school and tries to settle her affairs but many people come to her lab out of the blue. In the meantime...

• 2022 ACF Post-Production Fund

Jiseok

• Thailand
• 2022
• 128min

Six Characters is possibly the most highly anticipated Thai film this year, not least of all for its star-studded cast. On a shooting set filled with tension, a nervous director (Mario Maurer) tries to shoot a horror movie. The wi...

Icons

• Italy
• 2022
• 134min

Gianni Amelio, whose film work has reliably investigated modern Italian society, focuses this time on the 1960s. He remembers the barbaric reality of the time when he began his career and when Italian films hit their peak. Author ...

• Venice Film Festival In Competition

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2022
• 120min

The Policeman′s Lineage tells the story of an unethical cop who puts his job before anything else, and a rookie cop who is assigned to monitor him. Min-jae (Choi Woo-shik) is a by-the-book police officer who is the third genera...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kazakhstan
• 2022
• 74min

When Masha receives a personal message from Ramil, a social media celebrity, she decides to meet him. Ramil takes money from a middle-aged man and borrows a luxury apartment to throw a party for teenage girls. The girls get to enj...

• Grand Prix of the Generation 14plus International Jury for the Best Feature Film at Berlin International Film Festival

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2022
• 129min

Ki-woo (Jung Ilwoo) is homeless. He drifts around highway rest stops with his pregnant wife, a young son, and a young daughter. Young-sun (Ra Miran) feels sorry for them. Highway Family builds a bridge between Kiwoo’s family wh...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2022
• 115min

Shinmyung, a passionate waacking dancer, aspires to finance her genderreassignment surgery by winning a dance battle with a large jackpot, but ends up in second place. At the same time, she learns that her father, a master of t...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iraq/Egypt/Palestine/Saudi Arabia/Lebanon/United Kingdom
• 2022
• 103min

In the outskirts of Baghdad is a landfill covered with mounds of garbage and known by the locals, ironically, as the “hanging gardens.” The wasteland is filled with all sorts of discarded items, including even the corpses of babie...

• Venice Film Festival Orizzonti Extra, 2020 APM Project

New Currents

• Korea
• 2022
• 136min

Gi-hong is a carpenter who makes his living by taking on small interior work. He has become close to the young landlord and his wife and spends more time hanging out with them. Meanwhile, small but strange things happen to Gi-hong...