Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2023
• 103min

Jun-hee is a fourth-year associate manager at a small and medium-sized heavy industry company in the province. When he is transferred to the human resources department, Jun-hee is immediately tasked with creating a list of people ...

• 2023 ACF Post-Production Fund Recipient

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2023
• 84min

Only the few members of Yellow Door have seen fellow member Bong Joon-ho’s directorial debut film Looking for Paradise, which was never released. This stop-motion animation about a gorilla leaving a dark and dirty basement to esca...

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• France/Luxembourg/Netherlands
• 2023
• 215min

Located 150 kilometers outside of Shanghai, Zhili is the heart of China’s textile industry and attracts youths from rural regions along the Yangzi River. Wang Bing, one of the greatest filmmakers of our time, steps into this world...

• Cannes Competition

Special Program in Focus

• Hong Kong, China
• 2022
• 129min

2046, whose production began at around the same time as In the Mood for Love, feels like the latter’s sequel but does not remain in its shadow. In Hong Kong during the Cultural Revolution of 1966, Chow Mo-wan stays in Room 2046 at...

• Cannes Film Festival Competition

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2022
• 119min

Yeondu (Noh Yoon-seo) asks her best friend Bora (Kim You-jung) to collect all the information she can about Baek Hyunjin (Park Jung-woo) while she is away in the U.S. for heart surgery. Bora decides to get close to Baek’s best ...

Special Program in Focus

• Japan
• 2022
• 153min

A Balance is one of the most challenging Japanese independent films in recent years. Inspired by a true story, the film follows a female documentary filmmaker, Yuko, who is investigating the suicide of a high school student. She f...

• New Currents Award at BIFF

Wide Angle

• Cambodia/France
• 2022
• 30min

A young man makes a living by selling drugs in a back alley in Bordeaux. His mother visits him as a ghost. The world and time have changed, yet the connection between them is eternal.

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2022
• 102min

A Letter from Kyoto is an outstanding family drama that depicts the stories of three sisters with different personalities and their mother. The film delicately builds up emotions in a beautiful way. Hyeyoung (Han Seonhwa), who ...

Opening Film & Closing Film

• Japan
• 2022
• 123min

A Man is the latest feature film by Ishikawa Kei, who received critical acclaim for his 2016 debut film, Traces of Sin (2016). An adaptation of Hirano Keiichiro’s award-winning 2018 novel, the film stars Tsumabuki Satoshi, Ando Sa...

• Venice Film Festival Orizzonti

New Currents

• Malaysia
• 2022
• 104min

Three students from Jing Mu Girls’ Middle School go missing and turn up dead. Xiao Tong, a special education student with speech impairment, feels like someone is watching her. During the rehearsal for the school’s foundation day ...