Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2019
• 113min

Mandara is often one of the most extraordinary results of the collaboration between Director IM Kwontaek and DP JUNG Il-sung. In particular, DP JUNG Il-sung does not hesitate to put Mandara in the first place in his own Filmograph...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2019
• 95min

Hyerim(KIM Hyeja), who is serving a prison term for murder, takes a special vacation and gets on a train to Gangneung to go to her mother′s tomb. Min-gi (JEONG Donghwan) meets Hyerim by accident on the train, and the two share a s...

Opening Film & Closing Film

• Kazakhstan,Japan
• 2019
• 84min

One morning, a man goes to a town market to sell his horses with the other villagers. After exchanging affectionate glances with his wife and leaving his children, the man goes to the market and is killed by horse thieves. The wif...

• APM 2017

Wide Angle

• Malaysia
• 2019
• 93min

Disgusted with the Malaysian government that made the headlines all around the globe for laundering astronomical sums of money, the people of Malaysia rise up during the 2018 General Elections. Former Prime Minister Mahathir MOHAM...

Wide Angle

• Cambodia,France
• 2019
• 110min

Filmmaker Guillaume SUON’s mother currently resides in France. A survivor of Cambodia’s genocide at the “killing fields,” she has always avoided talking about her childhood. Frustrated by his mother’s silence, SUON decides to foll...

Flash Forward

• Colombia,Belgium,Brazil,France
• 2019
• 137min

After a long fishing night, Jose returns to his home deep in the jungle to discover that paramilitary forces killed his two sons and threw their bodies into the river. He begins a lonely journey upriver to retrieve their bodies an...

Icons

• France,Qatar,Germany,Canada,Turkey,Palestine
• 2019
• 102min

“In my previous works, I intended to make Palestine look like a miniature of the world. My new film It Must Be Heaven attempts to make the world look like a miniature version of Palestine.” - Elia SULEIMAN - This is the first fe...

• Special Prize at Cannes Film Festival

Busan Classics

• Singapore
• 2019
• 111min

This still shocking story is the debut of Singapore′s representative director Eric KHOO, who was selected in the New Currents Section of the 1st BIFF in 1996. The movie is set in the mid-1990s in the red-light district of Singapor...

Flash Forward

• Lithuania,Latvia,Germany,Greece
• 2019
• 96min

"A girl was wandering through the woods looking for a way home. Then she met a witch." The narration of an old fairy tale told by my mother suggests what the story of Motherland is about. In 1992, when the Soviet Union collapsed, ...

World Cinema

• Italy,Argentina
• 2019
• 91min

Teenage single mothers, Lu and Fati, live with their children at a convent′s shelter in Buenos Aires. One day, Paola, who is about to take a vow for the perpetual profession, arrives there, and the children in the shelter follow h...