Special Program in Focus

• United States
• 2023
• 115min

A film about a Korean-American family in search of hope, Minari premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize. It continued its success receiving numerous awards from around...

• Oscars Best Supporting Actress

Special Screening

• Korea
• 2023
• 79min

Director Kim Soo-yong’s 1967 film, Mist, eloquently conveys the unspeakable. Adapted directly by Kim Seung-ok himself from his novel, Record of a Journey to Mujin, this film is generally detailed, but at times, abstract and bold. ...

Gala Presentation

• Japan
• 2023
• 126min

Fifth-grader, Minato, tells his mother that he has been abused by his homeroom teacher, his mother becomes enraged and goes to complain. Instead of investigating the matter thoroughly, the school issues a perfunctory apology. Howe...

• Cannes Best Screenplay Award

Jiseok

• Philippines
• 2023
• 80min

Set in the Maguindanao region of Western Mindanao, Philippines, Moro follows two brothers, Jasim, the diligent elder brother, and Abdel, the irresponsible younger brother who has squandered his savings on gambling. After having an...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• France/Thailand
• 2023
• 106min

Born to an American father and a Thai mother, Jimmy has chosen a simply life over the glamourous existence of a pop star. He visits the hotel where he spent his childhood, intending to oversee its remodeling. The old hotel, now ac...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2023
• 116min

In 1999, Young-mi (Lee You-young), cruelly nicknamed “Ms. Apocalypse,” develops a crush on a married man who is imprisoned for embezzlement. Young-mi ends us imprisoned for aiding his crime. When she is released, her crush’s wife ...

• 2021 APM Project

Icons

• Germany/France/Serbia
• 2023
• 108min

Continuing her streak of success, since winning Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival with I Was at Home, But... (2019), Angela Schanelec has once again received recognition, winning Best Screenplay for her lates...

• Berlin Silver Bear for Best Screenplay

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2023
• 25min

In 2027, Ga-eul, a hearing-impaired college student, learns about the app MYDEAR and becomes immersed in conversations with an AI presence. The app’s features easily help her overcome her disability, and the AI is affectionate and...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2023
• 22min

Na-eun and Yeon-su live together in a small room. For two hours a day, Yeon-su becomes invisible. The man who keeps on vanishing, the woman left behind. Throughout this enigmatic and intriguing film, colors, screen ratios, visuals...

New Currents

• Malaysia/Singapore/France
• 2023
• 90min

A mother and a daughter secretly meet once every few weeks on a secluded staircase in an old apartment building. The mother, an undocumented Vietnamese in Malaysia, believes that her daughter’s best future lies in living with a Ma...