A Window on Asian Cinema

• Denmark,Germany,France,Luxembourg,Afghanistan
• 2019
• 90min

This story begins in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1989, toward the end of the war between the Soviet Union and Afghanistan, which began in 1979. Around the time the Soviet military begins to withdraw from Afghanistan, 15-year-old Qodrat...

• ACF Post-Production Fund 2015 / Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia,Malaysia,France
• 2019
• 106min

Siman is a man of few words who lives in a quiet rural village in Indonesia in the 1960s. By sheer chance, he witnesses people shooting a video of an astronaut landing on the moon. Unfortunately, he gets caught and gets his tongue...

• APM 2014 / 2013 ACF Post-Production Fund

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Bhutan
• 2019
• 110min

Pawo Choyning DORJI invites us to the most remote place in Bhutan, the happiest country in the world. Lunara, a very small village with only 56 people at 4,800 meters above sea level, has the most remote school on earth. The city ...

New Currents

• India
• 2019
• 120min

In the outskirts of a small village in India, Mrs. Sharma is forced to remain a respected middle-class wife and a faithful, wise old woman upon her husband’s death. Her son and his family, who live with her, have no doubt that she...

Special Programs in Focus 2

• United States
• 2019
• 109min

After the release of Reassemblage, a documentary filmed in Senegal, TRINH T. Minh-ha said she often received criticisms from the American Vietnamese community for not making a film about Vietnam. She then directed Surname Viet Giv...

World Cinema

• Greece,Germany,Austria
• 2019
• 76min

Writers David and his wife Nina, both in their mid-30s, rent a house to spend their vacation on the Greek island of Tinos, taking advantage of the off season. David looks only at the sea in front of his desk to find inspiration fo...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2019
• 111min

A drug squad, on the verge of disbanding after failing to arrest criminals repeatedly, will go on a stakeout for a comeback. The five drug squad detectives even take over a chicken store for their undercover work, which happens to...

Gala Presentation

• France,Italy
• 2019
• 107min

“I don’t judge my characters; I judge the society that produces them.” - Robert GUEDIGUIAN - The movie starts with Daniel in prison receiving a letter from his ex-wife Sylvie. It’s about the news that his granddaughter named "Gl...

• Best Actress Award at Venice International Film Festival In Competition

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• Korea
• 2019
• 132min

Parasite, which won the Palme d’Or at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival, is director BONG Joon ho’s seventh feature film. In this movie, Director BONG Joon ho, who has promoted genre customs in his own language, highlights the class p...

• Palme d′Or at Cannes Film Festival

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Laos,Spain,Singapore
• 2019
• 116min

The time and space cannot be specified in a sleepy rural village in Laos. A boy’s family make a poor living by farming and bartering the crops. As his mother becomes sick with tuberculosis, his father abandons the family. Since th...

• Venice International Film Festival Venice Days