Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2023
• 30min

Soon to be married, Eun-su heads to Gangneung to see her long-lost father. The old seaside town has changed dramatically from the one in her childhood memories. Exhausted from the sweltering heat of August, Eun-su gets into a taxi...

Special Program in Focus

• Indonesia
• 2023
• 112min

Set in Indonesia in the 1960s when the clove tobacco industry was growing, Cigarette Girl tells the story of Dasiyah, who dreams of creating a tobacco aroma with an ‘unforgettable taste.’ The series takes on a thriller format, rev...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• France/Mongolia/Portugal/Netherlands/Germany/Qatar
• 2023
• 103min

Seventeen-year-old Ze attends a modern school in Ulaanbaatar, while also leading a traditional life as a shaman and communing with ancestral spirits. Unlike his older sister, who is grappling with the gap between urban life and tr...

• Venice Orizzonti Best Actor Award

Icons

• Spain/Argentina
• 2023
• 169min

One of the most deeply personal and moving films of this year, Close Your Eyes, is the fourth feature film by Victor Erice, a filmmaker who has created three masterpieces over fifty years: The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), El Sur ...

• Cannes Premiere

World Cinema

• Austria/Germany/France/United Kingdom
• 2023
• 110min

Veteran Austrian filmmaker Jessica Hausner makes films that question conventional beliefs and reveal the absurdities that these beliefs create. Her journey began in earnest with her fourth feature, Lourdes (2009), a film about fai...

• Cannes Competition

Special Program in Focus

• United States
• 2023
• 104min

A Korean-born man finds himself stuck in Columbus, Indiana, where his architect father is in a coma. The man meets a young woman who wants to stay in Columbus with her mother, a recovering addict, instead of pursuing her own dream...

• Sundance Best of Next

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2023
• 106min

An independent daughter moves into her mother’s house due to financial problems, and brings with her same-sex lover, Rain. Mom is left bewildered. Meanwhile, the mom, who works as a caregiver, strives to provide the best care for ...

• 2019 APM Project, 2023 ACF Post-Production Fund Recipient

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran/Germany
• 2023
• 99min

Critical Zone is the sensational film that won the Golden Leopard at Locarno despite the Iranian government banning its director from leaving the country and attempting to cancel its screening. The film not only features a woman w...

• Locarno Golden Leopard

Special Program in Focus

• Taiwan/Hong Kong, China/United States/China
• 2023
• 120min

Chow Yun Fat shaved his head for the first time in his film career for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which marked director Ang Lee’s return to Chinese cinema after Eat Drink Man Woman. Surprisingly for an Asian director, Lee ach...

• Oscars Best Foreign Language Film Award

Special Program in Focus

• Indonesia
• 2023
• 15min

Dika is an adolescent with extraordinary sensitivity. His parents want to have a ritual to turn their son back to “normal.” An imam is summoned to chase the jinn away, but his actions may be just a performance. (PARK Sungho)

• Locarno Competition