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• Japan
• 2023
• 106min

A collaboration with Eiko Ishibashi, who composed the music for Drive My Car (2021), to create a performance video accidentally became a feature-length film, Evil Does Not Exist. Eiko Ishibashi’s music leaves a strong impression a...

• Venice Grand Jury Prize

World Cinema

• Hungary/Slovak Republic
• 2023
• 152min

As graduation exams approach, Abel finds himself unable to concentrate on his studies. Janka, a fellow student whom he secretly admires, has a crush on their teacher Jakab. Meanwhile, Jakab, who teaches history to Abel and Janka, ...

• Venice Orizzonti Best Film Award

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• Finland/Germany
• 2023
• 81min

Returning from retirement, Aki Kaurismaki continues his proletarian trilogy Shadows in Paradise (1986), Ariel (1988), and The Match Factory Girl (1989) in his latest film, Fallen Leaves. A lonely woman isolated from the world exce...

• Cannes Jury Prize

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2023
• 92min

Dong-chun is a tired elementary school student who has been shuttled from one school to the next with enthusiasm by her mother, but finds that she does not perform well at any of them. One day, she picks up a barrel of rice wine a...

Midnight Passion

• Spain
• 2023
• 92min

Despite promising his partner that he has overcome his accursed addiction, compulsive gambler Sergio decides to profit from a tip-off about a rigged football match. Fully intent on winning to get back all of the money he has lost ...

World Cinema

• Italy
• 2023
• 142min

Finally Dawn evokes strong feelings of nostalgia for Rome in the 1950s, when American actors came to Cinecitta to a make films. Through the innocent gaze of the protagonist Mimosa, director Saverio Constanzo transports us back int...

• Venice Competition

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2023
• 25min

In sweltering heat, a boy comes home from school and looks for water. Only his bedridden grandfather is home; his mother isn’t, and there is no water. After drinking up his grandfather’s water, the boy heads out to fill the water ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2023
• 26min

Even before Yeon-ju finishes unpacking, her older sister Seon-ju unexpectedly barges into the cramped room, not large enough for the household items, and old possessions that fill it. Empowered by impressive performances of the ac...

Wide Angle

• India
• 2023
• 90min

In the remote village of Tora near the India-Myanmar border, there are no roads, no water supply, no schools or hospitals. Despite over seventy years of independence in India, the village has been marginalized and forgotten becaus...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2023
• 84min

Following the Sound is the fourth feature from director Sugita Kyoshi, known for Listen to Light (2017) and Haruhara-san’s Recorder (2021). It is a work that focuses on the simple but sophisticated combination of sound and image t...

• Venice Venice Days