Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2023
• 84min

Nine-year-old Si-woo often cries at night, missing his late mother. In those moments, his father Min Byung-hun embraces him, offering comfort and solace. The bereaved father and son’s days are burdened with sadness, solitude, and ...

Midnight Passion

• United Kingdom
• 2023
• 100min

A bold coming-of-rage story, Raging Grace details the life of Joy, an undocumented Filipina immigrant who is struggling to do the best she can for her daughter, Grace, when she secures the perfect job; taking care of an extremely ...

• SXSW Thunderbird Rising Award

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2023
• 132min

Even if it’s clear where we’re headed, we’re going all the way together without a single glance away. Filled equally with suspense and laughter, Ransomed is the latest film from Director Kim Seong-hun, who has proven his ability t...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India/China/Qatar/Switzerland/Netherlands
• 2023
• 127min

While catching cicadas in the middle of the night with other villagers, Mangkungchi suddenly vanishes. Believing the rumors that he has been kidnapped by organ traffickers, Kasan’s father and other men of the village patrol the co...

• Locarno Filmmakers of the Present

Wide Angle

• Hong Kong, China/Canada/United Kingdom
• 2023
• 119min

Alan Lau, a journalist and documentary director, lived very near the site of the 2019 Hong Kong pro-democracy protests. He witnessed numerous events, captured every moment on film, and… left Hong Kong for good. Rather be Ashes Tha...

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...

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2023
• 118min

Kelly-Anne wakes up every morning by the courthouse to secure a seat at the high-profile trial of Ludovic Chevalier, a serial killer she is obsessed with. As days go by, the young woman bonds with another groupie, which momentaril...

• Karlovy Vary Crystal Globe

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2023
• 116min

Remembering Every Night follows three women in one spring day in Tama, a satellite city of Tokyo. Chizu, forty-four, receives a postcard from an old friend inviting her to come visit as she has moved to the neighborhood. Unemploye...

• Berlin Forum

Wide Angle

• Singapore/China
• 2023
• 107min

In a tiny, six-square-meter room, a young Chinese man named Eryang envisions a republic of his own. A self-proclaimed communist whom others consider an idealist, Eryang is a preposterous dreamer, and he is happy as always. Under p...

Open Cinema

• Japan
• 2023
• 138min

Revolver Lily is director Yukisada Isao’s stunning adaptation of Nagaura Kyo’s crime novel of the same. In 1924, before Japan enters the Pacific War, the Japanese army murders a family in search of a large sum of money they have s...