A Window on Asian Cinema

• Chien-Hung LIEN
• Taiwan/France
• 2023
• 106min

Hui-Jun, a chicken farmer from a rural village in Taiwan, lives with her soon-to-be-married younger brother and her teenage niece, Xin-Ru. When her relatives claim that she, being ...

Wide Angle

• Jeong-joo LEE
• Korea
• 2023
• 26min

He loves Sally. Yet, at times, he finds colors absent in Sally in others and shows curiosity, prompting Sally to change her color. A tableau of love, presented as a one-man show on...

Special Program in Focus

• Ismail BASBETH
• Indonesia
• 2023
• 99min

After many years of living in the city, a transgender woman has to go back to her remote hometown to attend her father’s funeral. She finds the village has changed greatly, and tha...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kenzhebek SHAIKAKOV
• Kazakhstan
• 2023
• 108min

Born without legs, Melis lives with his young son in a small rural village. There is a weapons test site near the village, but Melis and other villagers lead a peaceful life. Zhalg...

Special Program in Focus

• Aneesh CHAGANTY
• United States/Russia
• 2018
• 102min

In San Jose, California, David Kim looks through old photographs and videos of his daughter Margot and his late wife Pamela, who died from lymphoma nearly two years earlier, after ...

• Sundance Best of Next Audience Award

New Currents

• Tatsuya MORI
• Japan
• 2023
• 137min

What happened in September 1923? This movie explores the tragedy that followed the Great Kanto Earthquake. In the aftermath of the Great Kanto Earthquake, rumors spread that Korean...

• 2022 APM Project

Flash Forward

• Noora NIASARI
• Australia
• 2023
• 118min

An Iranian woman living in Australia, Shayda finds refuge in a women’s shelter with her frightened six-year-old daughter, Mona. Having fled her husband, Hossein, and filed for divo...

• Sundance Audience Award

Wide Angle

• On YEOM
• Korea
• 2023
• 30min

Deok-hee often ruins relationships by being excessively direct. Today, once again, P pushes her away. Amid the erratic life of a distinctly eccentric character, reality and cinemat...

Wide Angle

• Ilha LEE
• Korea
• 2023
• 99min

Kim Chang-in, a self-proclaimed democratic socialist, and Kim Hyun-jin, who calls himself an “extremely moderate centrist,” are ordinary youth of the Republic of Korea. Chang-in is...

• 2023 ACF AND Fund Recipient

New Currents

• Patiparn BOONTARIG
• Thailand
• 2023
• 93min

Solids by the Seashore marks the directorial debut of Patiparn Boontarig, who served as the assistant director for Manta Ray (2018) and Anatomy of Time (2021)....

• 2023 ACF Post-Production Fund Recipient