World Cinema
Incredible but TrueQuentin Dupieux’s extraordinary seems boundless. How would you react to a magical tunnel in the basement of your new house? The low-key setting of this film suggests that it will...
Korean Cinema Today
PeafowlShinmyung, a passionate waacking dancer, aspires to finance her genderreassignment surgery by winning a dance battle with a large jackpot, but ends up in second place. At the sam...
World Cinema
Love According to DalvaEmmanuelle Nicot’s defiant debut film focuses on posing a provocative question rather than providing an answer. Dalva, a twelve-year-old girl who lives with her father, dresses a...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Stone TurtleOn a remote island in Malaysia, Zahara works with her nephew trafficking turtle eggs to make a living. One day, a stranger named Samad arrives on the island. He introduces himself ...
Wide Angle
Scorched EarthKoreans become aware of the Korean War from the very early childhood, but their levels of awareness vary greatly: Those who have personally experienced the war have opinions that...
Midnight Passion
The Price We PayTwo criminals attempt to rob a local pawn shop. When their planned robbery goes awry and a gang of criminals find themselves injured with a resilient young female hostage in tow, t...
World Cinema
You Have to Come and See ItYou Have to Come and See It is the latest film of Jonas Trueba who is well known with his previous film The August Virgin (2020). It is a snapshot of young intellectu...
Wide Angle
Blue IslandBlue Island is a moving documentary that proposes to look back at Hong Kong’s unfinished democratic revolution from a more comprehensive historical perspective. Since the ...
Open Cinema
Kingdom 2: Far and AwayKingdom(2019) was a successful film based on Hara Yasuhisa’s manga series that began publication in 2006. The manga series was also adapted into a popular TV series. Its seq...
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Triangle of SadnessThis year’s Palme d’Or winner is an unapologetic social satire that may ruffle some feathers with its uncomfortable jokes, but is undeniably entertaining. The ping-pong dialogues a...