A Window on Asian Cinema

• Nepal
• 2023
• 106min

In a village nestled at the foot of the Himalayas in eastern Nepal, a skilled craftsman named Maila leads a humble but happy life with his wife, Maili, and seven-year-old son, Bindre. One day, the quiet life of his village is disr...

• Toronto Centrepiece

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2023
• 25min

In 2027, Ga-eul, a hearing-impaired college student, learns about the app MYDEAR and becomes immersed in conversations with an AI presence. The app’s features easily help her overcome her disability, and the AI is affectionate and...

World Cinema

• Italy
• 2023
• 142min

Finally Dawn evokes strong feelings of nostalgia for Rome in the 1950s, when American actors came to Cinecitta to a make films. Through the innocent gaze of the protagonist Mimosa, director Saverio Constanzo transports us back int...

• Venice Competition

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2023
• 92min

Dong-chun is a tired elementary school student who has been shuttled from one school to the next with enthusiasm by her mother, but finds that she does not perform well at any of them. One day, she picks up a barrel of rice wine a...

Wide Angle

• Hong Kong, China/Canada/United Kingdom
• 2023
• 119min

Alan Lau, a journalist and documentary director, lived very near the site of the 2019 Hong Kong pro-democracy protests. He witnessed numerous events, captured every moment on film, and… left Hong Kong for good. Rather be Ashes Tha...

Icons

• United States/France
• 2023
• 240min

With his forty-fourth film, Menus Plaisirs - Les Troisgros, documentary filmmaking legend Frederick Wiseman details the lives of the Troisgros family, who have for four generations run Le Bois Sans Feuilles (The Forest Without Lea...

• Venice Out of Competition

World Cinema

• Hungary/Slovak Republic
• 2023
• 152min

As graduation exams approach, Abel finds himself unable to concentrate on his studies. Janka, a fellow student whom he secretly admires, has a crush on their teacher Jakab. Meanwhile, Jakab, who teaches history to Abel and Janka, ...

• Venice Orizzonti Best Film Award

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2023
• 116min

Remembering Every Night follows three women in one spring day in Tama, a satellite city of Tokyo. Chizu, forty-four, receives a postcard from an old friend inviting her to come visit as she has moved to the neighborhood. Unemploye...

• Berlin Forum

Jiseok

• Philippines
• 2023
• 80min

Set in the Maguindanao region of Western Mindanao, Philippines, Moro follows two brothers, Jasim, the diligent elder brother, and Abdel, the irresponsible younger brother who has squandered his savings on gambling. After having an...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• France/Thailand
• 2023
• 106min

Born to an American father and a Thai mother, Jimmy has chosen a simply life over the glamourous existence of a pop star. He visits the hotel where he spent his childhood, intending to oversee its remodeling. The old hotel, now ac...