Opening Film & Closing Film

• China
• 2023
• 125min

In 2006, Ning Hao delighted his fans in Busan with the closing film, Crazy Stone, at the Busan International Film Festival. This year, he returns after seventeen years with another closing film, The Movie Emperor, joined by the al...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2023
• 100min

The Night of the Factory Girls begins with contemplations on what existed in the past but have disappeared or left untold and forgotten in the present, reluctantly starting with Shimizu Hiroshi’s Keijo because the first Korean doc...

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• United Kingdom/France/Belgium
• 2023
• 113min

The Old Oak is the story of a village in the Northeast of England, where the mine, the villages main source of employment, has closed, and people feel deserted by the system. Many young villagers have left and what was once a thri...

• Cannes Competition

Flash Forward

• Poland/Serbia/Lithuania
• 2023
• 112min

According to Tolstoy, a village is its own world; if you observe and depict the events within the village properly, you can approach a universal truth applicable anywhere, anytime. Following their successful oil painting animation...

• Toronto Special Presentations

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• France/Switzerland
• 2023
• 97min

In Philippe Garrel’s previous film, The Salt of Tears (2020), a woman’s question about the plough is met with the man’s dismissive response. This new film is perhaps an answer to her question. Familial themes are not unfamiliar in...

• Berlin Silver Bear for Best Director

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• France
• 2023
• 135min

In nineteenth-century France, gourmet Dodin (Benoit Magimel) and cook Eugenie (Juliette Binoche) have nurtured trust and love over twenty years. The film opens with an over thirty-minute-long meticulous depiction of the kitchen, a...

• Cannes Best Director Award

World Cinema

• Denmark/Sweden/Germany
• 2023
• 127min

After winning the Silver Bear at the Berlinale with A Royal Affair (2012), director Nikolaj Arcel and Mads Mikkelsen have collaborated once again to create another epic historical drama. Set in the mid-18th century, Captain Rudvig...

• Venice Competition

Wide Angle

• Indonesia
• 2023
• 15min

Frustrated by their parents’ impending divorce, two sisters escape their oppressive home environment and spend time alone to reminisce about their childhood. The choice between mom staying in the city and dad returning to their ho...

Flash Forward

• Spain/Portugal/Belgium
• 2023
• 103min

The Rye Horn is set in 1971, on an island off the coasts of Spain. Maria divides her time between work as a midwife, a livestock caretaker, and a part-time worker at the beach. One day, she gets into trouble when she performs an a...

• Toronto Platform

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2023
• 85min

Birju and Shona live in the slums with their daughter Muni. Together they navigate Kolkata’s affluent neighborhoods each very morning, collecting trash on a handcart. They sift through salvageable items from among the discarded ma...

• 2019 APM Project