Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2024
• 108min

From the deepest depths to the highest heights, a tumultuous life unfolds in this film. After their family business collapses due to the IMF crisis, Guk-hui (Song Joong-ki) and his family flee Korea and arrive in Bogota, Colombia....

On Screen

• Taiwan
• 2024
• 146min

Born for the Spotlight, the third drama series directed by renowned Taiwanese actor, writer and director Yen Yi-wen, after her previous two-part drama series The Making of an Ordinary Woman Parts 1 and 2. The series follows the li...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2024
• 14min

Anchan and Deokwoo are inseparable friends, one helping the other approach girls and write love letters. Yet their feelings are drifting in different directions. This teenage romance movie delicately unfolds the narrative of “you ...

Gala Presentation

• China
• 2024
• 112min

How rapidly is capitalism advancing in the People’s Republic of China? Jia Zhang-Ke has made a film about that speed. He looks at China through the biographies of socialist people who live that speed with their whole being. Zhao T...

• Cannes Competition

Special Program in Focus

• France/Qatar/Germany/Mongolia/Netherlands/Portugal
• 2024
• 103min

Seventeen-year-old Ze attends a modern school in Ulaanbaatar, while also leading a traditional life as a shaman and communing with ancestral spirits. Unlike his older sister, who is grappling with the gap between urban life and tr...

• Venice Orizzonti Best Actor Award

Open Cinema

• United States/United Kingdom
• 2024
• 109min

In the near future of the mid 21st century, the United States has fallen into a Second Civil War, with Texas and California seceding and forming the Western Forces militia, and Florida creating its own alliance. The nation’s autho...

• SXSW Headliner

Gala Presentation

• Japan
• 2024
• 124min

Yoshii (Suda Masaki), working in a small factory, hates losing even the smallest amount. As a professional reseller under the alias ‘Ratel,’ his principle is simple: buy low, sell high. From figurines to handbags, and even medical...

• Venice Out of Competition

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia/France/Singapore/Germany
• 2024
• 99min

Johan lives with his mother on a crocodile farm in West Java. For his mother, Johan and the crocodiles are everything in her life, and she takes great care of them. However, this life makes Johan, now an adult, feel suffocated and...

• Toronto Centrepiece

World Cinema

• Russia/Kazakhstan
• 2024
• 92min

Aiko, a makeup artist working in Moscow, endured domestic violence during her childhood and has since cut ties with her father. One day, she receives the news of her father’s death, and with mixed emotions, she returns to her home...

Wide Angle

• France/Benin/Senegal
• 2024
• 68min

Mati Diop, director of Atlantics (2019), has returned with Dahomey. The film begins with the return of 26 treasures to the Dahomey Kingdom, previously held by the Musee du Quai Branly in Paris. Once in Benin, there is a heated deb...

• Berlin Golden Bear