World Cinema

• Croatia,Macedonia,Serbia
• 2019
• 80min

Goran, a young boy arrives at a Catholic boarding school far away from his family. The boarding school, a strange environment, is a place with strict religious disciplines. In this place, where Catholic doctrines are thoroughly pr...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2019
• 109min

Born to Kill is directed by JANG Hyunsoo, who pioneered and popularized the Korean Noir genre in the mid-1990s. Young stars JUNG Woosung and SHIM Eunha back then played the roles of a lonely hit man and his beautiful lover. The mo...

Icons

• Italy
• 2019
• 97min

Willy FOYE sings and lives a wandering life. One night after the performance, intoxicated, he visits his son for the first time in 16 years. His son Vincent is autistic living in his own world. Swallowing his emotions and sorrow a...

• Venice International Film Festival In Competition

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India,UK,France,Qatar
• 2019
• 97min

Bombay Rose is an animation about the flower girl Kamala and her clever sister Tara. The two girls live with their grandfather who repairs clocks in a corner of the streets in Bombay. Upon learning that his alcoholic son with a ga...

• APM 2015 / Opening Film at Venice International Film Festival Critics′ Week

New Currents

• China
• 2019
• 98min

Qiqihar, Dongbei Province, used to be the economic center of China. However, with factories shutting down one after another and people leaving for bigger cities to look for jobs, the once-prosperous city has fallen silent. When Da...

Special Programs in Focus 2

• Canada,India
• 2019
• 108min

The first film in Deepa MEHTA′s ′Elements′ trilogy, Fire is a groundbreaking film that tackles the issues of women’s desire and lesbian sexuality in India at the turn of the new millennium. Bollywood’s veteran star Shabana AZMI an...

Busan Classics

• Russia
• 2019
• 107min

Red Snowball Tree is the story of Yegor Prokudin, the protagonist who leaves for free will after serving his sentence. With no fixed plan, he is looking for a job. He goes to the village where Lyuba Baykalova lives, a woman he got...

Midnight Passion

• Canada
• 2019
• 96min

The dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi’gMaq reserve of Red Crow, except for its Indigenous inhabitants who are strangely immune to the zombie plague. Traylor, the local tribal law enforcement, armed with nothing ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2019
• 99min

Yukisuke, a young, leggy bio-archeologist, gets to know Koyomi, a young land, selling Taiyaki on the street, similar to Korean fish-shaped bun. He is fascinated by her and visits her stall often. The two talk together and often ha...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2019
• 114min

A wound that was covered up without being cured properly is just a pause. Or maybe it’s slowly festering while you don’t notice it. Way Back Home is a story of a victim sexually assaulted 10 years ago facing the secret she covered...

• 2019 ACF Post-Production Fund