A Window on Asian Cinema
Ten Years MyanmarTen Years Myanmar, an omnibus film, envisions a dystopian future ten years into the future. Following its debut in Hong Kong in 2015, the Ten Years series evolved into an international project, spanning across Japan, Taiwan, and T...
New Currents
That Summer′s LieFirst-year high school student Da-young is required to write about her summer vacation as an assignment. She chooses to write about her relationship and conflicts with her boyfriend, Byung-hoon, who is in the same grade. When she ...
Open Cinema
The Animal KingdomThe French film The Animal Kingdom is a unique science fiction. This spectacular sci-fi takes the audience into the strange world of animal-humans who are both fragile and powerful. Mutations are occurring all over the Earth. Medi...
Gala Presentation
The BeastWith this loose adaptation of Henry James’s novel, The Beast in the Jungle, Bertrand Bonello films the reincarnations of a woman and her encounters with the same man during three different eras. Each time their relationship fails ...
Korean Cinema Today
The BereftsAn old man and a young woman in shabby clothes enter an abandoned motel in a deserted town. It is only after a while that we realize that they are a father and his developmentally disabled daughter, and that the two of them live t...
Icons
The Book of SolutionsThe Book of Solutions is the latest film of Michel Gondry, director of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2005). The feature is his first work since the 2015 feature, Microbe & Gasoline. Based on his personal experience while ...
Wide Angle
The Daughters of That DayAfter a face-to-face conversation, Yang Kyungin, who wrote a book on the Jeju Uprising, and Regine-pacis, a Rwandan student studying abroad in Korea, set off together on a journey. Despite the differences in their age, nationality...
On Screen
The DealJunsung (Yoo Seung-ho) and Jaehyo (Kim Dong-hwi) reunite with their high schoolmate Minwoo (Yoo Su-bin) and the three spend the night drinking together. The next morning, Jaehyo calls Minwoo’s mother and says, “I have your son. Pr...
World Cinema
The DelinquentsMoran, a bank teller, yearns to escape his monotonous life, and resolves to rob a safe. Involuntarily, his coworker Roman becomes entangled in this criminal act. In a tranquil rural village, where Roman ventures to retrieve a conc...
Flash Forward
The DreamerIf Jacques Rivette’s The Beautiful Troublemaker (1991) is an art of time and beauty, The Dreamer is an art of love and dreams. Raphael, an ugly fat man with only one eye, lives with his mother in a remote manor house after the own...