Special Screening

• Indonesia
• 2025
• 122min

Following a shaman′s instructions, Mila heads to ‘Penari Village’ on the eastern tip of Java Island with her cousin Yuda and their friends. Their mission is to return the legendary bracelet, ‘Kawaturih.’ However, upon arriving in ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2025
• 96min

After recovering from leukemia, Jang Juhee, who once dreamed of becoming a filmmaker, begins working at a center for independent living for people with disabilities. There, she meets documentary director Bu Seongpil, disabled and ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan/Taiwan/United States
• 2025
• 138min

What shape does the ideal family take? Dear Stranger unfolds as a narrative of catastrophe, one that befalls a family chasing their dreams while seeking a peaceful everyday life. Kenji, a Japanese professor aspiring for a tenure t...

On Screen

• Korea
• 2025
• 110min

Another irresistibly captivating femme fatale makes her entrance: Baek A-jin (Kim Youjung), a sociopathic character blessed with both striking beauty and razor-sharp intellect. She manipulates the men around her, using them to eli...

Wide Angle

• China
• 2025
• 15min

After getting married and having a son, a middle-aged man finally comes out as gay and divorces his wife. At his son’s wedding, the son invites his gay friends, but hesitates to invite his father as it may take time to bridge the ...

Special Program in Focus

• Italy
• 2025
• 115min

A high school student falls passionately in love with an older woman deemed mentally unstable. Their relationship becomes an act of rebellion that clashes with familial expectations and societal norms. The woman’s fiance, a member...

• Cannes Directors′ Fortnight

Special Program in Focus

• United States
• 2025
• 125min

“This year marks the 50th anniversary of the film. It’s a story of truth, marginalized voices, tragedy, and a searing critique of the media. At the time, it couldn’t be seen in Korea?but it should have been. Above all, it’s Al Pac...

• San Sebastian Best Actor

World Cinema

• Switzerland/Italy
• 2025
• 98min

This is Zund’s first drama, following three documentaries that have been steadily introduced to Korean audiences. For a director who has long documented human relationships, a story about a society where someone carries out anothe...

• Locarno Cinema of the Present Best Performance Award

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India/Australia
• 2025
• 88min

Occasionally mischievous brothers, a mother who handles all the housework, a father who appears at crucial moments, and a grandmother who lives nearby and offers help?Aakash and Adi’s family seems perfectly ordinary. Yet Anoop Lok...

Icons

• Romania/Austria/Luxembourg
• 2025
• 170min

At a theater in a Transylvanian tourist town, a production of Dracula takes the stage. This Dracula is not the fearful, seductive figure we expect but one who changes depending on the audience’s whims. On and off the stage, actors...

• Locarno International Competition