World Cinema

• France/Belgium
• 2022
• 76min

Quentin Dupieux’s extraordinary seems boundless. How would you react to a magical tunnel in the basement of your new house? The low-key setting of this film suggests that it will be a gloomy comedy?highly unusual for Dupieux. A...

• Berlin International Film Festival Berlinale Special

Special Program in Focus

• Hong Kong, China
• 2022
• 101min

"Mugando," the road to hell where extreme suffering is eternal, is the original title for the film Infernal Affairs, which tells the story of two men who are enemies but also the only people who can understand each other. Chen Win...

Wide Angle

• Denmark/Israel/Finland/Iceland
• 2022
• 100min

War is an act of killing; hence the powers that be must seek moral justification for waging war. In Israel, where all men and women are drafted at the age of eighteen, the painful history of persecution of the Jews, the geopolit...

• Venice Film Festival Orizzonti

Midnight Passion

• United States
• 2022
• 72min

Hiding out in New Mexico after a freak accident, Elena runs into Jessica, an old friend from high school. When Jessica’s stalker suddenly shows up at their door, they must seek help from beyond the grave to get rid of him for good...

Special Screening

• Korea
• 2022
• 117min

On May 18, 2017, the Busan International Film Festival’s Program Director Kim Jiseok died suddenly and unexpectedly from a heart attack while on a business trip to the Cannes Film Festival. In the face of his unexpected demise, hi...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2022
• 29min

On her way home during the holiday season, Jooyoung is called back to work. Having to work overnight is annoying enough, but then she gets stuck at a sobriety checkpoint. It is madness and chaos at its peak. A film about a fraca...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2022
• 22min

The daily life of a gay couple living together in Tehran is interrupted by an invisible third presence?the spirit of the ex-boyfriend who died six years ago who has returned and wants to live with them.

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Pakistan
• 2022
• 127min

Mumtaz is a makeup artist who is passionate about her work. She lives with her considerate husband, Haider; her dominating father-in-law, Aman; in addition to her brother-in-law, his wife, and their four daughters. When Haider, wh...

• Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2022
• 75min

Juhee (Kim Jooryung), a professor of theater, is diagnosed with a possible malignant tumor at the hospital. She goes back to school and tries to settle her affairs but many people come to her lab out of the blue. In the meantime...

• 2022 ACF Post-Production Fund

Open Cinema

• Japan
• 2022
• 134min

Kingdom(2019) was a successful film based on Hara Yasuhisa’s manga series that began publication in 2006. The manga series was also adapted into a popular TV series. Its sequel, Kingdom 2, was also a box-office hit in Japan. Kingd...