World Cinema

• Elene NAVERIANI
• Switzerland/Georgia
• 2023
• 110min

Whether villagers gossip, calling her a spinster, or her friends pity her for not having a husband or children, Etero is content with just a piece of sweet pastry. One day, narrowl...

• Venice Competition

World Cinema

• Stephan KOMANDAREV
• Bulgaria/Germany
• 2023
• 114min

To make ends meet after retirement with her meager pension, Blaga offers Bulgarian language tutoring to immigrants. One day, she falls victim to a voice phishing call, losing her l...

• Karlovy Vary Grand Prix - Crystal Globe, Best Actress Award

Jiseok

• Sangcheol LEE
• Korea
• 2023
• 105min

Sang-yeon is a confident and competent political reporter who lives a carefully planned life. After a long wait, she gives birth to twins, but the second one, Ji-woo, is diagnosed ...

New Currents

• Ji CHOY
• China
• 2023
• 93min

Soon-to-be married Mak Yuen-ting leaves for Hong Kong in search of her father, who left twenty years before. Her father, Mak Ka-fai, had come to Guangzhou for work, met Yuen-ting’s...

Jiseok

• Mirlan ABDYKALYKOV
• Kyrgyzstan
• 2023
• 80min

A diligent and cheerful young woman, Umut works as a nursing assistant with aspirations to become a certified nurse. She lives with her mother, and they depend on each other. Egeme...

Special Program in Focus

• Chang-dong LEE
• Korea
• 2023
• 148min

Based on Murakami Haruki’s short story, “Barn Burning,” Burning is about the enigmatic relationship between three people. Jongsu meets childhood friend Haemi, who seems to b...

• Cannes FIPRESCI Award

Wide Angle

• Gahong LEE
• Korea
• 2023
• 30min

Soon to be married, Eun-su heads to Gangneung to see her long-lost father. The old seaside town has changed dramatically from the one in her childhood memories. Exhausted from the ...

Special Program in Focus

• Kamila ANDINI,Ifa ISFANSYAH
• Indonesia
• 2023
• 112min

Set in Indonesia in the 1960s when the clove tobacco industry was growing, Cigarette Girl tells the story of Dasiyah, who dreams of creating a tobacco aroma with an ‘unforge...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Lkhagvadulam PUREV-OCHIR
• France/Mongolia/Portugal/Netherlands/Germany/Qatar
• 2023
• 103min

Seventeen-year-old Ze attends a modern school in Ulaanbaatar, while also leading a traditional life as a shaman and communing with ancestral spirits. Unlike his older sister, who i...

• Venice Orizzonti Best Actor Award

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• Víctor ERICE
• Spain/Argentina
• 2023
• 169min

One of the most deeply personal and moving films of this year, Close Your Eyes, is the fourth feature film by Victor Erice, a filmmaker who has created three masterpieces ov...

• Cannes Premiere