Gala Presentation
True MothersA middle class couple living in Tokyo, Satoko and Kiyokazu lead a happy, peaceful life with their six-year-old son Asato. However, their life begins to falter when they receive a phone call from Hikari, a woman who claims to be As...
A Window on Asian Cinema
WindIn the high mountains of Tibet, there are village people living in accordance with conservative traditional values. Going to the sacred mountain to pray is allowed only for men, and it is difficult for women to live independent li...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Farida′s 2000 SongsKamil’s peaceful life with his three wives in the remote region of Turkestan is disrupted when the fourth wife arrives. Changes simultaneously rush at a family that seem far from a historical upheaval that destroys long-standing f...
Korean Cinema Today
FIGHTERDirector Jero Yun has made two documentaries and one feature film Beautiful Days introduced as the opening film of the Busan International Film Festival 2018. This year, he has both a feature film and a documentary selected for Vi...
Flash Forward
PalmyraIvan Bolotnikov’s second film, who won the screenplay at Shanghai Film Festival for his debut film. Artur, a former military doctor, leads the quiet life of a widower in a mountain village in Dagestan. Artur learns that his only d...
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First CowKelly Reichardt, the iconic female filmmaker in American indie cinema, captures 19th-century American Northwest on the screen. When Cookie, a chef traveling with fur trappers, meets a buck-naked Chinese man named King-Lu, who is o...
A Window on Asian Cinema
The Paper TigersIn the 90s in the USA, three teenage prodigies in Kung Fu endured hard training to master skills. Swearing loyalty to their respected master and each other, they did their best to win their rival schools. Building up a fearsome re...
Flash Forward
The PredatorsThis film could be possible if John Updike modeled two classes of Rome in the 21st century, or if Robert Altman remade Short Cuts in Italy. Of course, to reflect individuality, a few drops of blood should be added. A gunman celebr...
World Cinema
FallingThe directorial debut of The Lord of the Rings actor Viggo Mortensen. When his homophobic and racist father can no longer live alone, the son (Viggo Mortensen) brings him to live with him. But troubles ensue with the father develo...
A Window on Asian Cinema
CoalesceIn Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, there are three young men. Songsa came to Phnom Penh to help sell clothes. Thy who wants a motorcycle, but doesn′t have money, sets foot in an entertainment establishment. Phearum drives a t...