Special Program in Focus

• Taiwan
• 2024
• 112min

Xiaoxia and Yuzu have been close since childhood, enough for their friends to call Xiaoxia “Yuzu’s wife.” Yet one day, their relationship begins to strain when a perfect transfer student named Cheng Yih arrives. Xiaoxia and Cheng ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2024
• 76min

As the cold winter sets in, a man returns to his remote Himalayan hometown for the first time in a while. The nomadic protagonist’s journey home reveals a growing emotional distance as he nears his village. The sense of loneliness...

• Cannes ACID

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2024
• 136min

Jin Joo-seok works as an insert director on a commercial movie set. When Ma Chu-hyun, who has a strange aura, joins the film team, the two become close and spend the night together. However, the next day, Ma Chu-hyun gets angry wi...

Wide Angle

• Sweden/Finland/Denmark
• 2024
• 206min

The extraordinary unearthing of more than three decades of extensive news report footage on Israel and Palestine by Swedish national public broadcaster SVT, runs at only two hundred minutes. Documentarist Goran Hugo Olsson is well...

• Venice Out of Competition

Icons

• France
• 2024
• 42min

The man in pajamas on the bed with a dog is Leos Carax. But it is also not him. This director’s double, who first appeared in Holy Motors (2012), moves from his room to a theater filled with ghostly spectators. In It’s Not Me, Leo...

• Cannes Premiere

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2024
• 62min

Su-yeon stands in a dark alley and swipes ‘like’ on a dating app. She meets a man, drinks with him, and then they go to a motel. She is a romance novelist. One day, a senior colleague visits Su-yeon and asks her to join in filing ...

World Cinema

• Belgium/Sweden
• 2024
• 100min

Julie is a promising tennis player at a tennis academy. Just before the Belgian Tennis Federation (BTF) scout test, an unfortunate incident occurs at the academy. After the suicide of another teenage prodigy, Aline, an internal in...

• Cannes SACD Award, Gan Foundation Award

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2024
• 27min

Junyeong works part-time at a pub while also making a documentary about laid-off workers. She is losing her confidence, wondering if she is making a film that no one will see, let alone change the world. The simple, unadorned plot...

Open Cinema

• India
• 2024
• 176min

In the ages of gods, Ashwathama was cursed with immortality after losing a war, doomed to wander until he finds redemption in the next era of humankind. Six thousand years later, humanity has reached a dystopian state, marred by e...

New Currents

• Japan
• 2024
• 126min

Can a person be born anew? Kaneko’s Commissary is a work that examines what it means to be human from various aspects and strives to find hope for people. Kaneko, imprisoned for violence, was a man who would get angry even at his ...