Korean Cinema Today

• Hyeyoung KIM
• Korea
• 2023
• 102min

High schooler In-young (Lee Re) loses her mother in a car accident. The world is a harsh place for a girl who is now all alone, but In-young is stronger, brighter, and more resilie...

Special Program in Focus

• Justin CHON
• United States/Indonesia
• 2023
• 93min

Jamojaya tells the story of James, a young Indonesian rapper with a rising career who is soon to have his debut album in U.S., and his father, who is still mourning the deat...

• Sundance Premieres

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Devashish MAKHIJA
• India
• 2023
• 138min

Joram opens with idyllic images of Dasru and Vaano living happily in Jharkhand, Eastern India, but soon cuts to the same couple, five years later, barely surviving as constr...

• Rotterdam Big Screen

Wide Angle

• Soohyuk CHOI
• Korea
• 2023
• 20min

Bong-sik dies after committing a heinous crime. Yet, even before the god of the underworld, he remains unrepentant and earns a hundred years of the severest punishment. Now, a hund...

Wide Angle

• Seifollah SAMADIAN
• Iran
• 2023
• 76min

Directed by Seifollah Samadian, a long-time friend of Abbas Kiarostami who had worked on Kiarostami’s films as a cinematographer, Kiarostami at Work is a film that conveys S...

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• Marco BELLOCCHIO
• Italy/France/Germany
• 2023
• 134min

Master director Marco Bellocchio’s latest feature film, Kidnapped is a period drama set in the turbulent times of Italian national unification, or Risorgimento. One night in...

• Cannes Competition

Wide Angle

• Nenad CICIN-SAIN
• United States/Bosnia and Herzegovina/Ireland/United Kingdom
• 2023
• 103min

Amid the breakup of Yugoslavia, the citizens of Sarajevo wake to find the city under siege and Bosnia at war. As the blockade stretches for years, living becomes an act of defiance...

• Berlin Special Gala

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Shunji IWAI
• Japan
• 2023
• 178min

In the Great East Japan Earthquake, a young girl named Luca loses her family and is left with a disability that prevents her from speaking properly. She can, however, make her voic...

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• Alice ROHRWACHER
• Italy/France/Switzerland
• 2023
• 132min

The director of Happy as Lazzaro, Alice Rohrwacher, presents her latest film, La Chimera, which revolves around the community of ‘tombarolo’ or tomb robbers in a vill...

• Cannes Competition

Wide Angle

• Dongxu SONG
• China
• 2023
• 14min

In the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, a young couple secretly enjoys a date. The man is eager to spend one last good night with his girlfriend, who is about to leave for a city to f...