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R.M.N.Matthias runs into the night after a he violently reacts to a racist slur. His prodigal return to hometown reunites him with an old flame, Csilla, who works for a local bread factory that has trouble recruiting locals at minimum w...
Wide Angle
Names of RevolutionOn October 16, 1979, Pusan National University students took to the streets, calling for the abolition of the Park Chung-hee regime′s Yushin order. That was the beginning. The heat of the protest spread like wildfire for five days...
Wide Angle
RAIN IN 2020RAIN IN 2020 is a seven-year documentary about the struggles of Ah-Tian, a young jade miner in Myanmar, and his family. There are three things that make life difficult for Ah-Tian, who is also director Lee Yong Chao′s younger brot...
Wide Angle
206: UnearthedAfter the dissolution of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was launched as a South Korean government organization in 2005, civic groups and bereaved families wishing to complete the mission the government had failed t...
A Window on Asian Cinema
24Two men are passionately engaging in a sexual romp in a bedroom, when a sound engineer suddenly appears, unnoticed. He is in the process of capturing sounds for a very specific collection. Amid the still days and clear nights he f...
Flash Forward
Compartment No. 6At the end of her studies and an affair in Moscow, Laura from Finland boards on a train to Murmansk to see some ancient petroglyphs. She finds herself sharing Compartment No. 6 with Ljoha, a brash-talking, vodka-swilling Russian m...
Special Program in Focus
CapernaumA Lebanese boy serving time as a violent offender sues his parents. His reason? "Because I was born." Zain, whose parents don’t even know his date of birth, has many younger siblings. When his sister Sahar is sold to their landlor...
World Cinema
House ArrestAfter winning multiple awards at Venice and Berlin, director Aleksey German Jr. arrived at Cannes with House Arrest, a whistleblower′s drama that is perfectly in sync with the current events around the world. As the saying goes, "...
New Currents
The Absent Director1917 (2019) is the first to come to mind when discussing films that were completed without cuts. To amplify the realness of war, the entire movie is in one shot?it was filmed in uncut takes that are seamlessly connected to look li...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Riverside MukolittaA young man named Takeshi arrives at a small fishing village. He gets a job at a squid cannery and moves into an old apartment with the help of the cannery owner. Takeshi’s monotonous life is interrupted by a visit from his neighb...