Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2023
• 97min

A Man of Reason depicts the struggle of a man who sacrifices everything to protect his loved ones. After being released from prison after ten years, Soohyuk (Jung Woosung) discovers that he has a daughter and decides to leave the ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Nepal
• 2023
• 106min

In a village nestled at the foot of the Himalayas in eastern Nepal, a skilled craftsman named Maila leads a humble but happy life with his wife, Maili, and seven-year-old son, Bindre. One day, the quiet life of his village is disr...

• Toronto Centrepiece

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2023
• 91min

In Harbin, China, in the early 2010s, fifteen-year-old Xian goes to live with her estranged father when her mother, a doctor, takes a job in Africa for a year. Her initial anticipation that this would be the worst summer of her li...

• Cannes Directors′ Fortnight

Icons

• Turkiye/France/Germany/Sweden
• 2023
• 197min

Again, in Anatolia, the epic drama of Ceylan unfolds. And again, questions of morality, ethics, and the nature of man are asked. Samet, an art teacher, desperately wants to be transferred from the rural village where he has spent ...

• Cannes Best Actress Award

World Cinema

• Italy
• 2023
• 127min

Stefano Sollima has ascended to the ranks of film noir masters with Adagio, the story of a young boy living with natural disaster, a corrupt society, and his father’s crimes. Sixteen-year-old Manuel receives an instruction from a ...

• Venice Competition

New Currents

• Japan
• 2023
• 127min

Sanae goes to prison after she fails in an attempt to murder her boyfriend. Six years later, she meets and marries Kenta, a forestry worker. Their marriage takes a new turn when the wife of Sanae’s ex-boyfriend shows up at the doo...

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

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India/France
• 2023
• 132min

Kanu Behl′s latest feature explores sexuality in the context of India’s patriarchal society through the prism of a man’s sexual discontent. Guru, a young man who works in a call center, lives with his mother on the first floor of ...

• Cannes Directors′ Fortnight, 2015 APM Project

World Cinema

• Argentina/Spain
• 2023
• 87min

Sixteen-year-old Lola has the opportunity to embark on a student exchange program to Germany. However, as her older sister, who is afflicted with a mental illness, repeatedly turns the household upside down, that chance slips furt...

• San Sebastian Horizontes Latinos

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia
• 2023
• 114min

Ali Topan is a modern-day Romeo and Juliet fairy tale. Ali is a young boy living in the Blok M community running music events. His life is mostly in the streets. Although he is considered a delinquent, his kindness toward others m...