Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2023
• 115min

Detective Won-ho (Cho Jin-woong) risks everything to apprehend the leader of a vast drug cartel, known as ‘Mr. Lee,’ and in so doing, becomes entangled in a complex relationship with two of the organization’s prominent figures, Br...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2023
• 83min

A father, son, daughter-in-law, and grandson operate an inn in a desolate, rural town that once had a movie theater and many tourists but has fallen into decay. The son wants to sell the inn, but the daughter-in-law wants to keep ...

• San Sebastian New Directors

Wide Angle

• United States
• 2023
• 116min

Beyond Utopia follows the last known defectors to attempt to flee North Korea, where an oppressive dictatorship works overtime to convince the citizens that they are living in paradise. At the film’s core are a mother desperate to...

• Sundance Audience Award

Midnight Passion

• United States
• 2023
• 100min

Rose is a pathologist who prefers working with corpses over social interactions with the living. She also has an obsession: the reanimation of the dead. Celie is a maternity nurse who has built her life around her bouncy, chatterb...

• Sundance Midnight Selection

World Cinema

• Switzerland/Georgia
• 2023
• 110min

Whether villagers gossip, calling her a spinster, or her friends pity her for not having a husband or children, Etero is content with just a piece of sweet pastry. One day, narrowly escaping a near-fatal accident while picking bla...

• Venice Competition

World Cinema

• Bulgaria/Germany
• 2023
• 114min

To make ends meet after retirement with her meager pension, Blaga offers Bulgarian language tutoring to immigrants. One day, she falls victim to a voice phishing call, losing her lifelong savings. Faced with a crisis where she can...

• Karlovy Vary Grand Prix - Crystal Globe, Best Actress Award

Jiseok

• Korea
• 2023
• 105min

Sang-yeon is a confident and competent political reporter who lives a carefully planned life. After a long wait, she gives birth to twins, but the second one, Ji-woo, is diagnosed with a second-degree developmental disability. Tha...

New Currents

• China
• 2023
• 93min

Soon-to-be married Mak Yuen-ting leaves for Hong Kong in search of her father, who left twenty years before. Her father, Mak Ka-fai, had come to Guangzhou for work, met Yuen-ting’s mother, married, and lived with her for ten years...

Jiseok

• Kyrgyzstan
• 2023
• 80min

A diligent and cheerful young woman, Umut works as a nursing assistant with aspirations to become a certified nurse. She lives with her mother, and they depend on each other. Egemen lives with his elderly father and ekes out a liv...

Special Program in Focus

• Korea
• 2023
• 148min

Based on Murakami Haruki’s short story, “Barn Burning,” Burning is about the enigmatic relationship between three people. Jongsu meets childhood friend Haemi, who seems to be lively but somewhat hollow, and falls for her. But Haem...

• Cannes FIPRESCI Award