A Window on Asian Cinema
Death of NintendoIn the summer of 1991, Paolo, a 13-year-old boy with an overprotective mother, cannot play video games any more due to a nationwide blackout following a series of earthquakes. He and his friends wandering the streets with nothing ...
Korean Cinema Today
Deliver Us from EvilTrace while being chased. In-nam (Hwang Jung Min), a former special agent and hitman now asks around the whereabouts of his daughter who disappeared in Thailand. Ray (Lee Jung Jae), whose brother was murdered by In-nam, follows hi...
World Cinema
Passion SimpleDanielle Arbid adapts Annie Ernaux’ famous novel and tells the story of the burning passion of Helene, a divorced mother, for Alexander, a Russian businessman. Carried by the great French actress Laetitia Dosch, Passion Simple mak...
Korean Cinema Today
VestigeVestige is an omnibus of two shorts by directors Kim and Jang, which both lead to making a feature film. Being part 1, director Kim depicts a shabby middle-aged woman wandering into an abandoned house at the foot of a mountain tha...
Wide Angle
SnailA man heading for an appointment bumps into his old friend on the street. Coincidental encounter, trivial conversation, and subtle air. They walk together on Jongno Street for a while. They then head their own directions during a ...
Open Cinema
DAEMUGADAEMUGA consists of four parts. Part 1: an incident in which a professional shaman named Shin Nam unexpectedly becomes involved. Part 2: another shaman, named Gangnam, appears to begin his strange and comical investigation. Part 3...
World Cinema
ShortaTwo white police officers are patrolling a neighborhood where the Arabs live. Amid heightened tensions in the area, after a suspect is placed in critical condition due to excessive police force, the police officers interogate on a...
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DaysLee Kang-Sheng’s breath taking acting, depicting a gaze that seems to be transcendent, and the long tempoed directing that captures this signify the world of Tsai Ming-Liang’s that has become more intense and mature. The daily lif...
Open Cinema
My Missing ValentineXiao Chi wakes up in the morning and realizes that her long awaited Valentine’s Day has already passed. She goes to the police to file a report, but there is no way to get her lost day back. My Missing Valentine is a story about X...
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The Woman Who RanThe Woman Who Ran is about Gam-hee (Kim Min-hee), who never left her husband for five years. She visits two friends (Seo Young-hwa, Song Seon-mi) while her husband is away, and bumps into an old friend (Kim Sae-byuk) at a theater....