A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2023
• 85min

Birju and Shona live in the slums with their daughter Muni. Together they navigate Kolkata’s affluent neighborhoods each very morning, collecting trash on a handcart. They sift through salvageable items from among the discarded ma...

• 2019 APM Project

Flash Forward

• Italy/Germany/Ireland
• 2023
• 115min

An Endless Sunday is the most delightful discovery of the year. Brenda, Alex, and Kevin live in a poverty on the outskirts of Rome. They are penniless, jobless, and out of school, and they spend their time hanging out on the beach...

• Venice Orizzonti Special Jury Prize

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2023
• 138min

Joram opens with idyllic images of Dasru and Vaano living happily in Jharkhand, Eastern India, but soon cuts to the same couple, five years later, barely surviving as construction workers in Mumbai and living with their three-mont...

• Rotterdam Big Screen

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2023
• 29min

The life of seventeen-year-old Xuan is anything but ordinary: She lives and works with her mother and sister in a recycling center surrounded by things others have thrown away. One day, at the suggestion of a boy she likes, she tr...

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• United Kingdom/France/Belgium
• 2023
• 113min

The Old Oak is the story of a village in the Northeast of England, where the mine, the villages main source of employment, has closed, and people feel deserted by the system. Many young villagers have left and what was once a thri...

• Cannes Competition

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• Italy/France/Germany
• 2023
• 134min

Master director Marco Bellocchio’s latest feature film, Kidnapped is a period drama set in the turbulent times of Italian national unification, or Risorgimento. One night in 1858, soldiers burst into the home of a Jewish Mortara f...

• Cannes Competition

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan/France
• 2023
• 106min

Hui-Jun, a chicken farmer from a rural village in Taiwan, lives with her soon-to-be-married younger brother and her teenage niece, Xin-Ru. When her relatives claim that she, being unmarried, should not attend her brother’s wedding...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Vietnam/Singapore/France/Spain
• 2023
• 179min

In a noisy outdoor restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City, three men are chatting when a motorcycle accident happens on the road right next to them. Thien doesn’t pay much attention to it, but it turns out that the victim of the accident ...

• Cannes Golden Camera Award

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2023
• 84min

Only the few members of Yellow Door have seen fellow member Bong Joon-ho’s directorial debut film Looking for Paradise, which was never released. This stop-motion animation about a gorilla leaving a dark and dirty basement to esca...

Gala Presentation

• Hong Kong, China
• 2023
• 92min

Jin Xia works at the security checkpoint of Incheon Port Passenger Terminal. One day she encounters a green-haired girl who captures her attention. In need of money to escape her husband, she goes on an adventure with the green-ha...

• Berlin Panorama