On Screen
Recipe for FarewellRecipe for Farewell tells the story of Changwook (Han Seokkyu), who starts writing a kitchen diary while cooking for his wife, Dajung (Kim Seohyung), who is suffering from a terminal illness. Changwook learns to prepare a dish tha...
Wide Angle
RetrogradeRetrograde captures the final nine months of America′s twenty-year war in Afghanistan from multiple perspectives: one of the last US Special Forces units deployed there as their occupation winds down, a young Afghan general and...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Return to SeoulWhen her flight to Japan is re-routed due to a typhoon, Freddie (Park Jimin) finds herself on Korean soil for the first time since she was adopted to France as a child. Totally unfamiliar with the language and culture, she tries h...
Flash Forward
Riceboy SleepsSo-Young is a Korean single mother raising her adolescent son, Dong-Hyun, in the suburbs of Canada during the 1990s. Determined to provide a better life for him than the one she left behind in her native country, she does her be...
World Cinema
Rule 34Simone is training to work as a public defender for women who are victims of domestic violence. However, as dusk falls she turns into an online porn star to work her way through law school, and ventures into the dangerous world...
Special Program in Focus
Sacro GRAGianfranco Rosi spent two years on and around the Grande Raccordo Anulare (GRA), a ring-shaped road that encircles the city of Rome. Rosi’s method, which involves getting to know the space and its people by staying in that area wi...
Wide Angle
SAGAL: Snake and ScorpionThe film starts with a caption that reads: “I began to think about making a documentary.” It is, however, not about making a film. To figure out what it is truly about, it’s better to see what the title implies: the expression “...
Flash Forward
Saint OmerSaint Omer is the first narrative feature film by documentarist Alice Diop. With this work, Diop, who is known for her films about immigrants and working-class men, refocuses her camera on women’s issues. Rama is working on the ...
Wide Angle
SanctuaryWang Mincheol, the director of Garden, Zoological (2018), has returned with Sanctuary. In Garden, Zoological, he observed the zookeepers at the Cheongju Zoo, and this time he follows the activities of those who are turning the ...
Midnight Passion
Satan′s Slaves: CommunionSeveral years after they managed to save themselves from a terrible incident in which they lost their mother and the youngest sibling, Ian, Rini and her younger siblings, Toni and Bondi, and their father live in flats. They believ...