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The Virgin Flight
  • HAN Seungju
  • Korea
  • 2017
  • 24min

Overweight Ga-hui is infatuated with a boy in her school. Su-bin offers Ga-hui some strange diet pills, telling her it is “a drug to make you a human.” The moment she swallows the...

World Premiere

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Madonna
  • Sinung WINAHYOKO
  • Indonesia
  • 2017
  • 14min

Working offshore in fishing, intensely homesick and depressed, siblings Melati and Ilalang slog through their days, coping as best they can. Melati releases young fish; Ilalang exp...

International Premiere

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NAGISA
  • KOGAHARA Takeshi
  • Japan
  • 2017
  • 18min

The poolside conversations between a boy and his classmate linger in his mind after her sudden death in this coming-of-age tale that recalls one boy’s remembrances of what he consi...

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I Want To Go Home
  • Wesley Leon AROOZOO
  • Singapore,Japan
  • 2017
  • 60min

Yasuo Takamatsu, lost his wife Yuko in the tsunami during the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011. Unable to get over the sadness and sense of loss, he obtains a diving l...

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The Road
  • Arash KHAYATAN
  • Iran
  • 2017
  • 18min

As a mechanic and a man with a broken down car get to chatting by the side of a desolate road, it soon becomes clear that the car owner also owns the factory the mechanic’s brother...

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Death of the Sound Man
  • Sorayos PRAPAPAN
  • Thailand,Myanmar
  • 2017
  • 16min

Like the use of sound in a film, the voice of the masses often goes unnoticed or unheard. Two sound recordists working on a short demonstrate how crucial both are, and how audience...

  • 베니스영화제 오리종티 단편경쟁
International Premiere

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Two Brothers
  • Raghbir SINGH
  • India
  • 2017
  • 20min

What is more valuable, your identity or your life? That is the question Sikh brothers Gurnam and Harnam are forced to ask during Punjab’s 1990 insurgency that saw Sikhs a target fo...

World Cinema

Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc
  • Bruno DUMONT
  • France
  • 2017
  • 106min

Jeannette is an eight-year-old girl growing up during the Hundred Years’ War. As she witnesses the injustices committed by English soldiers in France, she recognizes growing anger ...

  • 칸영화제 감독주간

A Window on Asian Cinema

They
  • Anahita GHAZVINIZADEH
  • United States,Qatar
  • 2017
  • 80min

J is delaying the start of her puberty because she is concerned about her gender. However, it’s time to make a decision. J’s sister Lauren and her boyfriend Araz are also going thr...

  • 칸영화제 특별상영
World Premiere

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The Day I Am Gonna Come
  • HONG Cheng
  • China
  • 2017
  • 17min

This autobiographical short tracks the single day the filmmaker’s parents?dad, a recycling center worker and mom, already a mother, newly wed to him and pregnant with Hong?went fro...

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