World Cinema

• Jessica HAUSNER
• Austria/Germany/France/United Kingdom
• 2023
• 110min

Veteran Austrian filmmaker Jessica Hausner makes films that question conventional beliefs and reveal the absurdities that these beliefs create. Her journey began in earnest with he...

• Cannes Competition

Special Program in Focus

• Kogonada
• United States
• 2017
• 104min

A Korean-born man finds himself stuck in Columbus, Indiana, where his architect father is in a coma. The man meets a young woman who wants to stay in Columbus with her mother, a re...

• Sundance Best of Next

Korean Cinema Today

• Mirang LEE
• Korea
• 2023
• 106min

An independent daughter moves into her mother’s house due to financial problems, and brings with her same-sex lover, Rain. Mom is left bewildered. Meanwhile, the mom, who works as ...

• 2019 APM Project, 2023 ACF Post-Production Fund Recipient

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Ali AHMADZADEH
• Iran/Germany
• 2023
• 99min

Critical Zone is the sensational film that won the Golden Leopard at Locarno despite the Iranian government banning its director from leaving the country and attempting to c...

• Locarno Golden Leopard

Special Program in Focus

• Ang LEE
• Taiwan/Hong Kong, China/United States/China
• 2000
• 120min

Chow Yun Fat shaved his head for the first time in his film career for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which marked director Ang Lee’s return to Chinese cinema after Eat ...

• Oscars Best Foreign Language Film Award

Special Program in Focus

• M. Reza FAHRIYANSYAH
• Indonesia
• 2022
• 15min

Dika is an adolescent with extraordinary sensitivity. His parents want to have a ritual to turn their son back to “normal.” An imam is summoned to chase the jinn away, but his acti...

• Locarno Competition

Midnight Passion

• Lance LARSON
• United States
• 2023
• 91min

The Rio Grande river cuts through 1200 miles of harsh and unforgiving desert, dividing Texas from Mexico. U.S. Border agent Angel Waters comes across what would normally be a routi...

Wide Angle

• Yoonsuk JUNG
• Korea
• 2023
• 101min

Choi Jinri is the real name of the South Korean celebrity known by her stage name Sulli. Using her real name in the title, Dear Jinri is the product of efforts to get to kno...

Korean Cinema Today

• Min-joon JANG
• Korea
• 2023
• 102min

Gynecologist Gui-nam and his wife, Wu-hee, find themselves unable to have a child. They have a good life now, but they need to have a child to inherit the property of Wu-hee’s fath...

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• Radu JUDE
• Romania/Luxembourg/France/Croatia
• 2023
• 163min

Angela spends her days and nights traveling around the city of Bucharest, looking for potential candidates to make appearance in a “safe at work” video commissioned by a multinatio...

• Locarno Special Jury Prize