New Currents

• Bhutan,Germany,Nepal
• 2018
• 85min

Sangai, a teenage girl living with her father in a village of inland Bhutan, is not happy with her father, who makes wooden phalluses, believed to have mysterious power, and playing a festival clown with a red mask at a local fest...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2018
• 85min

Director Zhang Wei returns with another focus on China’s social issues in an exploration of life as a transgender person living in a changing Chinese society. Huanyu, who decides to undergo a sex-change, needs his father’s consent...

BUSAN Classic

• Thailand
• 2018
• 133min

The Scar tells the simplest of love stories. Cherd Songsri (who co-wrote the film under the pseudonym “Thom Thatree” as well as directing it) called it a film about an “immaculate love”. It’s based on a story published in the 1930...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2018
• 105min

With a single mistake, Rui, a former star basketball player, loses his job and has nothing to do. Collecting parking fees on the street, he’s snooping around a dark world. He knows it is not where he belongs, but he has no place t...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kazakhstan
• 2018
• 120min

Bank teller Kanat lives alone with his mother. He is the head of the household of a broken family, one often portrayed in Central Asian films. The Secret of a Leader tells the tale of how Kanat’s life changes and he enters a new w...

BUSAN Classic

• Sweden
• 2018
• 101min

As the film opens, a knight, Antonius Blok, and his squire, Jons, have just returned from the Crusades to a Sweden being ravaged by the plague. As they journey toward his castle, the knight struggles to forestall Death in a game o...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2018
• 85min

Director Ahn Jaehuun has been creating animations based on Korean short stories at his studio, Pencil Meditation, since 2014. He uses animation in a way that lets imagination fill in the missing parts of a story. The Shaman Sorcer...

World Cinema

• France,Spain,Romania,Belgium
• 2018
• 121min

Brothers Charlie and Eli Sisters set off for the west, San Francisco with Det. John Morris, the three partnering to catch a wanted man, Hermann Warm. Unlike the rash, violent, troublemaker Charlie, the older Eli, tired of working ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2018
• 108min

Seon Woojung is an artist who plagiarizes other people′s works and lives on them with a plausible expression ‘borrowing’. One day, she is offered a special exhibition by a company, and not to lose the chance, she sleeps with the h...

Wide Angle

• Indonesia
• 2018
• 112min

Wiji Thukul is a representative poet and human rights activist in Indonesia. At the end of Suharto′s regime in 1997-1998, numerous democratic fighters were killed or missing by the Suharto regime during a fierce democratic movemen...