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• Korea
• 2023
• 61min

Seoungmo (Shin Seokho), Namhee (Kim Seungyun), and Sangguk (Ha Seongguk) went to the same college. They try to make a film while staying at a guesthouse on a windy island, but they are clueless what their film will be about. Altho...

• Berlin Encounters

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Jordan/France/Saudi Arabia/Qatar
• 2023
• 113min

Inshallah a Boy was the first Jordanian film ever to be invited to the Cannes Film Festival. A woman, whose husband suddenly dies leaving her to raise her young daughter alone, faces the prospect of losing both her home and custod...

• Cannes Critics′ Week

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

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2023
• 115min

Once upon a time, three men were shipwrecked and stranded on a deserted island while traveling in a turtle boat to fight a war against the Japanese. The older, more storied one is Mong-hwi, the younger, stronger, and more upright ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2023
• 102min

High schooler In-young (Lee Re) loses her mother in a car accident. The world is a harsh place for a girl who is now all alone, but In-young is stronger, brighter, and more resilient than expected. With sharp wit and tenacious spi...

Special Program in Focus

• United States/Indonesia
• 2023
• 93min

Jamojaya tells the story of James, a young Indonesian rapper with a rising career who is soon to have his debut album in U.S., and his father, who is still mourning the death of James’s brother. Their relationship is put to the te...

• Sundance Premieres

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

• Korea
• 2023
• 20min

Bong-sik dies after committing a heinous crime. Yet, even before the god of the underworld, he remains unrepentant and earns a hundred years of the severest punishment. Now, a hundred years later, Bong-sik receives a new karma, ac...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2023
• 76min

Directed by Seifollah Samadian, a long-time friend of Abbas Kiarostami who had worked on Kiarostami’s films as a cinematographer, Kiarostami at Work is a film that conveys Samadian’s genuine friendship and deep respect for Kiarost...

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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