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The Holdovers
  • Alexander PAYNE
  • United States
  • 2023
  • 133min

Nobody likes teacher Paul Hunham. Everyone?his students, his colleagues, and even the headmaster?finds his pomposity and rigidity exasperating. With no family and nowhere to go ove...

  • 토론토영화제 스페셜프레젠테이션
Korea Premiere

World Cinema

Club Zero
  • Jessica HAUSNER
  • Austria/Germany/France/United Kingdom
  • 2023
  • 110min

Veteran Austrian filmmaker Jessica Hausner makes films that question conventional beliefs and reveal the absurdities that these beliefs create. Her journey began in earnest with he...

  • 칸영화제 경쟁
Asian Premiere

Wide Angle

The Mother of All Lies
  • Asmae EL MOUDIR
  • Morocco/Egypt/Saudi Arabia/Qatar
  • 2023
  • 96min

El Moudir’s exploration of identity through her mother in The Postcard (2020) continues through the grandmother in her latest film, which delves into the Moroccan contempora...

  • 칸영화제 최우수 다큐멘터리상
Asian Premiere

World Cinema

Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry
  • 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...

  • 칸영화제 감독주간
Asian Premiere

World Cinema

Blaga′s Lessons
  • 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...

  • 카를로비바리영화제 크리스탈글로브 그랑프리, 여우주연상
Asian Premiere

Wide Angle

And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine
  • Axel DANIELSON,Maximilien VAN AERTRYCK
  • Sweden/Denmark
  • 2023
  • 88min

There are more than forty-five billion cameras on the planet today, constantly capturing every moment of our lives, both mundane and extraordinary. The camera has become humanity’s...

  • 선댄스영화제 월드시네마 다큐멘터리 심사위원특별상
World Premiere

Korean Cinema Today

The Guest
  • Jegwang YEON
  • Korea
  • 2023
  • 77min

In a dingy motel located somewhere on the outskirts of the city, Min-cheol and Young-gyu are secretly recording guests who visit the motel. They then sell the footage to a loan sha...

Asian Premiere

Wide Angle

Talking with Rivers
  • Mohsen MAKHMALBAF
  • Iran/United Kingdom
  • 2023
  • 50min

A compelling rumination on the history of Iran and Afghanistan, Talking with Rivers is Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s contemplative reflection on and a compilation of the works of the ...

World Premiere

Wide Angle

The List
  • Hana MAKHMALBAF
  • United Kingdom/Afghanistan/Iran
  • 2023
  • 65min

Hana Makhmalbaf’s The List begins where her father Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s Talking with Rivers leaves off. When the US troops withdraw in August 2021, Afghanistan fell in...

Asian Premiere

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Close Your Eyes
  • 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...

  • 칸영화제 프리미어
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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