Special Program in Focus

• Hong Kong, China
• 2023
• 115min

The Chinese title of the film One More Chance translates to “Don’t call me the God of Gamblers,” a parody of the highly successful film God of Gamblers . Leaving behind the glory of his past in Hong Kong, Chow Yun Fat returns as a...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2023
• 119min

One Second Ahead, One Second Behind is a Japanese remake of the successful Taiwanese film My Missing Valentine (2020). Under the direction of Yamashita Nobuhiro, best known for A Gentle Breeze in the Village (2007) and Linda Linda...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2023
• 101min

In a small rural village in China in the 1990s, an olderly woman who raises geese is murdered. The prime suspect is arrested?a homeless man called the “madman,” whom the old woman had taken in. Chief Inspector Ma Zhe discovers a c...

• Cannes Un certain regard

Jiseok

• Sri Lanka/India
• 2023
• 93min

Indian film producer Kesav and blogger Amritha are a married couple who arrive in Sri Lanka to tour the ancient sites of the Hindu epic Ramayana. On the first day of their journey, Kesav receives a phone call that Netflix is inter...

Special Program in Focus

• United States/Korea
• 2023
• 105min

Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea to Canada. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions ...

• Berlin Competition

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2023
• 115min

Eun-sim (Na Moon-hee), at the age of eighty, has returned to her hometown after more than sixty years. She is relieved to spend some time with her old friends Geum-soon (Kim Yeong-ok) and Tae-ho (Park Keun-hyong), who, unlike her,...

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• Brazil
• 2023
• 93min

The pandemic has changed everything about our daily lives, including the ways we view movies. Now we search for ratings to determine if a movie is worth spending money and time on, have a remote in hand with the double-speed butto...

• Cannes Special Screenings

Special Screening

• Korea
• 2023
• 139min

A poem emerges from pain, much like a bird breaking free from its shell. Only when the world is dismantled can a poem stand whole. Mija (Yun Jung-hee) aspires to write poems. She supports herself and her grandson, a child abandone...

• Cannes Best Screenplay Award

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• United Kingdom
• 2023
• 141min

From filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and producer Emma Stone comes the incredible tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter. Under Bax...

• Venice Golden Lion

Special Program in Focus

• Indonesia
• 2023
• 102min

Lala, a young diving athlete, meets with Yudhis, a handsome transfer student. Although the film’s set-up sounds like a typical teenage romance, Posesif quickly shifts gears as Lala begins to feel that Yudhis is too obsessed with h...