A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2023
• 120min

“Japan’s ranking in the Global Gender Gap index is 116th out of 146 countries. We remain a male-dominated society. Many households still uphold the old traditions where the men go out to work and the women stay home.” Director Ogi...

Open Cinema

• India
• 2023
• 169min

Rocky is the grandson of Dhanlakshmi, the matriarch of the Randhawa family, owners of a successful candy company. He learns that his amnesiac grandfather, Kanwal, misses a woman named Jamini. TV anchor Rani, the daughter of Englis...

Wide Angle

• China
• 2023
• 21min

Liang Fei, a middle-aged man, rides a roller coaster for the first time in his life just before the city is locked down due to the pandemic. When he hears about a leopard that escaped from the zoo, he decides to test his own brave...

Special Screening

• Japan
• 2023
• 103min

On March 28, 2023, world-renowned composer Ryuichi Sakamoto passed away. He continued to produce numerous works despite battling cancer for years, and orchestrated the final concert of his life. Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus is a concer...

• Venice Out of 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...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2023
• 26min

He loves Sally. Yet, at times, he finds colors absent in Sally in others and shows curiosity, prompting Sally to change her color. A tableau of love, presented as a one-man show on stage. It is a one-person-system film directed by...

Special Program in Focus

• Indonesia
• 2023
• 99min

After many years of living in the city, a transgender woman has to go back to her remote hometown to attend her father’s funeral. She finds the village has changed greatly, and that the villagers have become extremely religious. S...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kazakhstan
• 2023
• 108min

Born without legs, Melis lives with his young son in a small rural village. There is a weapons test site near the village, but Melis and other villagers lead a peaceful life. Zhalgas and his friends eagerly wait for the days when ...

Special Program in Focus

• United States/Russia
• 2023
• 102min

In San Jose, California, David Kim looks through old photographs and videos of his daughter Margot and his late wife Pamela, who died from lymphoma nearly two years earlier, after which David and Margot became distant. One night, ...

• Sundance Best of Next Audience Award

New Currents

• Japan
• 2023
• 137min

What happened in September 1923? This movie explores the tragedy that followed the Great Kanto Earthquake. In the aftermath of the Great Kanto Earthquake, rumors spread that Koreans had poisoned the wells, leading to the massacre ...

• 2022 APM Project