Flash Forward

• Lithuania/Latvia
• 2024
• 89min

Two sisters gather with their husbands and children to head for a weekend at a peaceful country house. While the women dance to ‘90s pop music and the men posture their masculine bravado, the children are eager to go for a swim in...

• Locarno Best Direction Award, Best Performance Award

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2024
• 182min

The protagonist of Dying, a Berlin Film Festival award-winning screenplay, says: “Not everyone has the talent to be happy.” Matthias Glasner’s characters choose pain and unhappiness over lukewarm love or the pursuit of happiness. ...

• Berlin Silver Bear for Best Screenplay

Icons

• France/United States
• 2024
• 130min

Master of thrillers Jacques Audiard brings women and female actors to the forefront in Emilia Perez, exploring the theme of transgender identity. The story follows a former drug cartel boss from Mexico who decides to undergo gende...

• Cannes Jury Award, Best Actress Award

Wide Angle

• France/United States
• 2024
• 107min

Raoul Peck, known for I Am Not Your Negro (2016), traces the life of photo-grapher Ernest Cole in Ernest Cole: Lost and Found. After publishing a photo book documenting the realities of South African people under apartheid in his ...

• Cannes Special Screenings Golden Eye

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2024
• 30min

Jaehyeon, who works at a bike shop, learns that the owner of a motorcycle that was left unclaimed for several months has died in an accident. He delivers the bike to the man’s widow. What follows is a beautiful ride shared by two ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2024
• 83min

In her first feature-length film following the shorts Romantic Machine (2019) and Coral Love (2022), director Lee So-jeong, who has consistently pushed the boundaries of cinematic imagery, expands her artistic vision to new depths...

World Cinema

• Italy
• 2024
• 125min

Una Femmina: The Code of Silence (2022), delves deeper into the same themes in Familia. Opening with partially blurred flashbacks, both films follow protagonists recovering from distorted memories of the past to uncover the truth....

• Venice Orizzonti Best Actor Award

Special Program in Focus

• China
• 2024
• 99min

Eighteen-year-old Li Qi is confident and skilled in handling difficult customers at her mother’s fish shop in the local market. After refusing her mother’s suggestion to repeat a year after failing her college entrance exams, Li Q...

Open Cinema

• Latvia/France/Belgium
• 2024
• 85min

Flow is an animation that garnered acclaim from critics and audiences alike at Cannes this year and went on to sweep four awards, including Audience Award, Jury Prize, and Best Music, at the Annecy International Animated Film Fest...

• Cannes Un certain regard, Annecy Jury Award, Audience Award, Best Original Music Award

New Currents

• Iran
• 2024
• 87min

Sometimes what is so precious to a person can be an object of transaction and fraud for others. It would be nice if people could control their greed, but the world doesn’t offer such kindness. Especially if someone lacks power and...