World Cinema

• Norway/Netherlands/Sweden/Germany
• 2024
• 117min

In a quiet elementary school classroom on the brink of summer vacation, a teacher and parents gather. A single mother reacts with disbelief upon hearing the news that her six-year-old son has done ‘something terrible’ to his class...

• Cannes Camera d′Or

New Currents

• China
• 2024
• 99min

On the night of a major earthquake, train driver Li attends his elementary school class reunion to see friends he hasn’t seen in years. There, he reconnects with Song Qian, who remembers the story A Water Monster that Li wrote as ...

• 2024 ACF Post-Production Fund Recipient

Wide Angle

• Kyrgyzstan/Canada
• 2024
• 18min

Ash Valley: Janyl is about Janyl who investigates strange behavior in livestock near a large oil rig. Something feels wrong, but her superior asks her to stay out of the investigation for her own safety. (PARK Sungho)

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2024
• 86min

Following Afternoon Landscape (2020) and Night Walk (2023), Sohn Koo-yong presents his third feature documentary. A cinematic wanderer who savors spaces and finds poetry in nature, Sohn ventures into a park this time with Oh Kyu-w...

On Screen

• Japan
• 2024
• 94min

This melodrama stars Arimura Kasumi from We Made a Beautiful Bouquet (2021) and Sakaguchi Kentaro from The Last 10 Years (2022). Saeko (Arimura Kasumi) is struggling with the loss of her boyfriend in a tragic traffic accident and ...

Wide Angle

• Japan/United Kingdom/United States
• 2024
• 102min

This documentary follows the five-year legal battle of Ito Shiori, a journalist who has become a symbol of Japan’s #MeToo movement, credited with forever changing the lives of Japanese women. In 2015, Ito was sexually assaulted by...

• Sundance World Cinema Documentary

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2024
• 110min

Ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Lang, who was recently released from prison after serving time for murder, returns to his hometown ? a place that feels both unfamiliar and dangerous. Designated for redevelopment, the town is n...

• Cannes Un certain regard Award

Wide Angle

• United States/India
• 2024
• 15min

Blue Boy tells the story of Kiran, a boy who feels different from others and secretly uses his mom’s makeup. Kiran’s parents don’t accept him for who he is, but his identity and love will eventually come to light. (PARK Sungho)

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2024
• 104min

In a quiet seaside village, Xiao Kui, a lively girl with many dreams, is just as eager to help her mother Hongjv with her Maoqiang opera performances as she is to play with her friends. Since Xiao Kui’s father never returned from ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• United States
• 2024
• 117min

Didi and Amy, working in a massage parlor in Queens, New York, live with other Chinese immigrant women. In this unfamiliar place, they each cope with the responsibilities to their families and their loneliness, struggling to pursu...

• Cannes Critics′ Week French Touch Prize of the Jury