Wide Angle

• Alan LAU
• Hong Kong, China/Canada/United Kingdom
• 2023
• 119min

Alan Lau, a journalist and documentary director, lived very near the site of the 2019 Hong Kong pro-democracy protests. He witnessed numerous events, captured every moment on film,...

Wide Angle

• Hao-wei CHEN
• Taiwan
• 2023
• 29min

The life of seventeen-year-old Xuan is anything but ordinary: She lives and works with her mother and sister in a recycling center surrounded by things others have thrown away. One...

World Cinema

• Pascal PLANTE
• Canada
• 2023
• 118min

Kelly-Anne wakes up every morning by the courthouse to secure a seat at the high-profile trial of Ludovic Chevalier, a serial killer she is obsessed with. As days go by, the young ...

• Karlovy Vary Crystal Globe

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Yui KIYOHARA
• Japan
• 2022
• 116min

Remembering Every Night follows three women in one spring day in Tama, a satellite city of Tokyo. Chizu, forty-four, receives a postcard from an old friend inviting her to c...

• Berlin Forum

Wide Angle

• Jiang JIN
• Singapore/China
• 2023
• 107min

In a tiny, six-square-meter room, a young Chinese man named Eryang envisions a republic of his own. A self-proclaimed communist whom others consider an idealist, Eryang is a prepos...

Open Cinema

• Isao YUKISADA
• Japan
• 2023
• 138min

Revolver Lily is director Yukisada Isao’s stunning adaptation of Nagaura Kyo’s crime novel of the same. In 1924, before Japan enters the Pacific War, the Japanese army murde...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Naoko OGIGAMI
• Japan
• 2023
• 120min

“Japan’s ranking in the Global Gender Gap index is 116th out of 146 countries. We remain a male-dominated society. Many households still uphold the old traditions where the men go ...

Open Cinema

• Karan JOHAR
• India
• 2023
• 169min

Rocky is the grandson of Dhanlakshmi, the matriarch of the Randhawa family, owners of a successful candy company. He learns that his amnesiac grandfather, Kanwal, misses a woman na...

Wide Angle

• Xinyan CHEN,Jingchen ZHANG
• China
• 2023
• 21min

Liang Fei, a middle-aged man, rides a roller coaster for the first time in his life just before the city is locked down due to the pandemic. When he hears about a leopard that esca...

Special Screening

• Neo SORA
• Japan
• 2023
• 103min

On March 28, 2023, world-renowned composer Ryuichi Sakamoto passed away. He continued to produce numerous works despite battling cancer for years, and orchestrated the final concer...

• Venice Out of Competition