Korean Cinema Today

• Sun-ae LIM
• 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 ...

• 2021 APM Project

Icons

• Angela SCHANELEC
• 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 re...

• Berlin Silver Bear for Best Screenplay

Wide Angle

• Dohee JEON,Sohee KIM
• 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 overc...

Wide Angle

• Jinwook SONG
• 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 a...

New Currents

• Chee Sum CHIA
• 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 h...

Icons

• Nicolas PHILIBERT
• France/Japan
• 2023
• 109min

Adamant is a hospital psychiatric center. This film follows patients, caregivers, and doctors as they travel to and from the center, which floats on the Seine River. The director w...

• Berlin Golden Bear

Special Program in Focus

• Anthony PUN
• Hong Kong, China
• 2023
• 115min

The Chinese title of the film One More Chance translates to “Don’t call me the God of Gamblers,” a parody of the highly successful film God of Gamblers . Leaving behi...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Nobuhiro YAMASHITA
• Japan
• 2023
• 119min

One Second Ahead, One Second Behind is a Japanese remake of the successful Taiwanese film My Missing Valentine (2020). Under the direction of Yamashita Nobuhiro, best...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Shujun WEI
• China
• 2023
• 101min

In a small rural village in China in the 1990s, an olderly woman who raises geese is murdered. The prime suspect is arrested?a homeless man called the “madman,” whom the old woman ...

• Cannes Un certain regard

Jiseok

• Prasanna VITHANAGE
• Sri Lanka/India
• 2023
• 93min

Indian film producer Kesav and blogger Amritha are a married couple who arrive in Sri Lanka to tour the ancient sites of the Hindu epic Ramayana. On the first day of their j...