Midnight Passion
Exit 8Video games in everyday life offer the greatest pleasures one can experience in a virtual space. But if you were to become truly trapped within the time and space of a game?where you once had the option to simply switch it off?tha...
Special Program in Focus
Exterior NightNineteen years after Good Morning, Night (2003), Italian master Marco Bellocchio delves into the truth behind the official narrative of the Red Brigades kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro. Similar to Kurosawa Akira’s Rashomon (195...
Wide Angle
Fadeout CosmosWhat if there were operators who could craft people’s dreams? What should the final dream of Hyeonjin, a twenty-year-old facing death, look like? His dream unfolds like a wistful youth film, centered on a single name. A sci-fi fan...
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Father Mother Sister BrotherFATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER is a feature film, though carefully constructed in the form of a triptych. The three stories all concern the relationships between adult children, their somewhat distant parent (or parents), and each o...
Special Program in Focus
Fists in the PocketThis year marks the 60th anniversary of Marco Bellocchio’s debut feature, Fists in the Pocket. The film was met with critical acclaim as Italy’s answer to the French New Wave. Depicting the rebellious descent of a bourgeois youth ...
Gala Presentation
FrankensteinIn the mid-19th century, genius scientist Victor Frankenstein, after countless experiments to breathe the spark of life into dead flesh, finally succeeds in creating his own being. Thus is born ‘The Creature’?a grotesque and dange...
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FranzAn eminent master nearing his eighties has taken on the challenge of creating a biographical film about a writer whose name everyone knows. This was an adventurous undertaking by all accounts, with the production team calling it, ...
Wide Angle
FruitIn a time and place where abortion is illegal, a husband rejoices at the news of pregnancy while his wife secretly attempts to terminate it. After failed attempts through jumping, running, and medication, she encounters a strange ...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Full PlateAmreen is a Muslim woman with a talent for cooking. After her husband Imtiaz is injured in an accident, she decides to become the breadwinner. Despite family opposition and difficulty finding work due to prejudice against her blac...
Competition
Funky Freaky FreaksThe enigmatic debut feature by Han Chang-lok takes its original title, Chung Chung Chung, or Funky Freaky Freaks when translated in English, from the first syllables of three chapter headings that appear midway through the film: ‘...