World Cinema

• Ukraine
• 2024
• 103min

Sergiich and Pashka are the only inhabitants of a bleak mining village in the grey zone of the Donbas region. Friends from childhood, they live a quiet life though one is Ukrainian and the other Russian. There are bombings heard o...

• Rotterdam Competition

Special Program in Focus

• Japan/United States
• 2024
• 113min

The first feature fiction film by director Sora Neo, who made documentary Ryuichi Sakamoto / Opus (2023), invited to the Busan International Film Festival last year. Happyend has been invited to many film festivals including Venic...

• Venice Orizzonti

World Cinema

• United Kingdom/Germany/Greece/France/United States
• 2024
• 134min

Based on Jim Crace’s homonymous novel, Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Harvest takes us to an unnamed village in danger of being enclosed. Our protagonist and narrator, Walter, settled into the remote community with his milk sibling Mast...

• Venice Competition

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2024
• 109min

26-year-old Yong-jun (Hong Kyung) is troubled by his lack of dreams when he falls for the same-age Yeo-reum (Roh Yoon-seo) at first sight. Yeo-reum takes care of her little sister Ga-eul (Kim Min-ju), a swimmer with hearing impair...

On Screen

• Korea
• 2024
• 139min

Hellbound Season 2 inherits the bleak yet hopeful worldview and the provocative questions of its predecessor, pushing an increasingly complex situation into an even more chaotic direction. As the extremist group, Hwasalchok, expan...

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• Iran/United Kingdom
• 2024
• 63min

This is the latest work by Iranian master Mohsen Makhmalbaf, who has long been interested in the political issues of Afghanistan. To examine the deteriorating relations between Palestine and Israel following the Hamas attack on Oc...

Flash Forward

• France
• 2024
• 92min

Eighteen-year-old rural boy Totone lost his father in a traffic accident. Now, the boy must take care of his seven-year-old sister on his own and find a way to support them. One day, he hears about a cheese-making competition offe...

• Cannes Un certain regard Youth Award

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand
• 2024
• 127min

Once top of his class as a child, M now wastes his days on gaming broadcasts and lives off his mother. When his cousin Mui inherits a large fortune after dutifully caring for their ailing grandfather, M decides to do the same. Des...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2024
• 102min

Recording engineer Seong-hyeon is troubled by a request for post-production dubbing. The leading actress, Mi-jeong, has passed away, and no one knows the content of the ad-libs she performed in a crucial scene of the film. Minor a...

Jiseok

• Korea
• 2024
• 81min

Sa-rang (Jang Sun) is deeply in love with Cheol-su (Lee Yoojun), who visits the pharmacy where she works every day. Unfortunately, Cheol-su’s heart is completely taken by Jong-hui (Han Haein), the pharmacist and Sa-rang’s cousin. ...

• 2024 ACF Post-Production Fund Recipient