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International Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Goodbye Mother
  • Dinh Le Minh TRINH
  • Vietnam
  • 2019
  • 107min

Van, a young Vietnamese bachelor graduated in the US, returns to his hometown in Vietnam with his Vietnamese-American boyfriend, Ian. His mother is very happy with her son’s visit,...

World Premiere

Wide Angle

The Taste of Secrets
  • Guillaume SUON
  • 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. Frustr...

  • 2015 AND BIFF메세나펀드
International Premiere

Flash Forward

O Fim do Mundo
  • Basil DA CUNHA
  • Switzerland
  • 2019
  • 104min

Spira, released from the juvenile detention center after eight years, returns to Reboleira, the outer region of Lisbon, where the demolition is underway. The joy of meeting his fam...

Asian Premiere

World Cinema

Deerskin
  • Quentin DUPIEUX
  • France
  • 2019
  • 77min

Deerskin is my first realism movie. The character and the world surrounding him is very specific. You can walk along the street and meet ‘Georges’ by chance, and anyone ca...

  • 칸영화제 감독주간 개막작
Asian Premiere

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Mr. Jones
  • Agnieszka HOLLAND
  • Poland,Ukraina,UK
  • 2019
  • 119min

A journalist named Gareth Jones contributed to the creation of George Orwell’s 『Animal Farm』, which is famous for its satire and criticism of totalitarian society. George Orwell wr...

  • 베를린영화제 경쟁부문
Asian Premiere

World Cinema

Corpus Christi
  • Jan KOMASA
  • Poland,France
  • 2019
  • 116min

Daniel, a 20-year-old young man who finished his prison term, gets a job at a woodworking center in a rural village with the help of a priest, but instead of going to work at the w...

  • 베니스영화제 베니스데이즈
Asian Premiere

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Devil Between the Legs
  • Arturo RIPSTEIN
  • Mexico,Spain
  • 2019
  • 147min

Legendary Mexican filmmakers Arturo RIPSTEIN returns with another collaboration with his wife and screenwriter Paz Alicia GARCIADIEGO, this time a ‘most personal tale’ of an aging ...

Asian Premiere

Open Cinema

Les Misérables
  • Ladj LY
  • France
  • 2019
  • 102min

Les Miserables is my warning to politicians; watch out, it explodes! “ - Ladj LY -
In front of the Paris Arc de Triomphe, Parisians cheering as one at the news of thei...

  • 칸영화제 심사위원대상
Asian Premiere

World Cinema

A Certain Kind of Silence
  • Michal HOGENAUER
  • Czech Republic,Netherlands,Latvia
  • 2019
  • 96min

Mia, a young Czech woman, is assigned to take care of a 10-year-old boy in a wealthy house. Since it a job with good working conditions, she snaps into it, but soon finds the way t...

Asian Premiere

Korean Cinema Retrospective

Woman of Fire
  • KIM Ki-young
  • Korea
  • 1971
  • 100min

Director KIM Kiyoung’s unconventional film format relies heavily on collaboration with DP JUNG Il-sung. Woman on Fire (1971) was the beginning. A housemade Myeongja (YOON Ye...

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Seoul Office #1601, GARDEN TOWER, 84, Yulgok-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul 03131, Korea
Busan Office 3rd Floor, BIFF HILL, Busan Cinema Center, 120, Suyeonggangbyeon-daero, Haeundae-gu, Busan 48058, Korea
Seoul Office #1601, GARDEN TOWER, 84, Yulgok-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul 03131, Korea