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World Premiere

Wide Angle

Peace River
  • JANG Min-joon
  • Korea
  • 2020
  • 29min

Myeongjoon and Jeongho, high school students in Hwacheon, are old friends with different personalities. One day, Jeongho brings a new bike and Myeongjoon suspects him of dishonesty...

World Premiere

Korean Cinema Today

AND THERE WAS LIGHT
  • KIM Ji-seok
  • Korea
  • 2020
  • 109min

A man determines to kill himself every day, but continues with his life because he forgets to end himself due to alcoholic dementia. A severely alcoholic woman is living her life u...

World Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Little Big Women
  • Joseph Chen-Chieh HSU
  • Taiwan
  • 2020
  • 124min

On Shoying’s 70th birthday, her long-lost husband Bochang returns home, dead. Shoying has no intention of postponing a birthday party with her three daughters and their families; h...

Korea Premiere

New Currents

A Balance
  • Yujiro HARUMOTO
  • Japan
  • 2020
  • 153min

Documentary director Yuko portrays a school violence incident from three years ago that resulted in suicides, while she was teaching classes at her father’s cram school. As her doc...

Korea Premiere

World Cinema

The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)
  • C.W. WINTER,Anders EDSTRÖM
  • United States,Sweden,Japan,UK
  • 2020
  • 480min

“The first rule in farming is that you are never to hope for an easy way. The land demands your effort.” The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin), the s...

  • 베를린영화제 엔카운터 작품상
Asian Premiere

World Cinema

Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time
  • Lili HORVÁT
  • Hungary
  • 2020
  • 95min

A second feature by the Hungarian filmmaker Lili Horvat, whose debut film The Wednesday Child(2015) won an award at the Karlovy Vary IFF. A neurosurgeon falls in love with a...

  • 베니스영화제 베니스데이즈
Asian Premiere

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Dear Comrades!
  • Andrei KONCHALOVSKY
  • Russia
  • 2020
  • 121min

The latest film by acclaimed Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky, known for Maria’s Lovers and Runaway Train. In 1962, workers stage labor strikes in Soviet Russia. ...

  • 베니스영화제 심사위원특별상
Asian Premiere

World Cinema

I Carry You With Me
  • Heidi EWING
  • Mexico,United States
  • 2019
  • 112min

The narrative feature debut by Heidi Ewing, who is best known for the Academy Award-nominated documentary Jesus Camp (2006). Based on a true story, this film tells the heart...

  • 선댄스영화제 넥스트 이노베이터상, 관객상
International Premiere

Flash Forward

Beasts
  • Naël MARANDIN
  • France
  • 2020
  • 100min

Constance decides to help her father farm. To pass an innovative project, she needs Sylvain’s help, the big guy of the community. But instead of offering help, he rapes her. Consta...

  • 칸영화제 비평가주간
Asian Premiere

World Cinema

Rascal
  • Peter DOUROUNTZIS
  • France
  • 2020
  • 96min

Rascal, the first feature by Dourountzis, who already received critical attention for his short story The Wanderer (2014), is a social thriller that reflects the dire...

  • 칸 2020
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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