Midnight Passion

• Juan GALIÑANES
• Spain
• 2023
• 92min

Despite promising his partner that he has overcome his accursed addiction, compulsive gambler Sergio decides to profit from a tip-off about a rigged football match. Fully intent on...

World Cinema

• Saverio COSTANZO
• Italy
• 2023
• 142min

Finally Dawn evokes strong feelings of nostalgia for Rome in the 1950s, when American actors came to Cinecitta to a make films. Through the innocent gaze of the protagonist ...

• Venice Competition

Wide Angle

• Dong-hyun NAM
• Korea
• 2023
• 25min

In sweltering heat, a boy comes home from school and looks for water. Only his bedridden grandfather is home; his mother isn’t, and there is no water. After drinking up his grandfa...

Wide Angle

• Inwon HWANG
• Korea
• 2023
• 26min

Even before Yeon-ju finishes unpacking, her older sister Seon-ju unexpectedly barges into the cramped room, not large enough for the household items, and old possessions that fill ...

Wide Angle

• Anupama SRINIVASAN,Anirban DUTTA
• India
• 2023
• 90min

In the remote village of Tora near the India-Myanmar border, there are no roads, no water supply, no schools or hospitals. Despite over seventy years of independence in India, the ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kyoshi SUGITA
• Japan
• 2023
• 84min

Following the Sound is the fourth feature from director Sugita Kyoshi, known for Listen to Light (2017) and Haruhara-san’s Recorder (2021). It is a work that f...

• Venice Venice Days

Wide Angle

• Kaouther BEN HANIA
• France/Tunisia/Germany/Saudi Arabia
• 2023
• 107min

Olfa, who lives in Tunisia, has four daughters. One day, her two elder daughters vanish?the teens have left for Libya to join the Islamic State. Based on actual events that took pl...

• Cannes Competition, Documentary Prize

Icons

• Agnieszka HOLLAND
• Poland/Czech Republic/France/Belgium
• 2023
• 152min

In late 2021 as Belarus sends refugees from the Middle East to neighboring Poland, soldiers from both countries clash and refugees find themselves caught in the middle of a lushly ...

• Venice Special Jury Prize

Gala Presentation

• Shuai HAN
• Hong Kong, China
• 2023
• 92min

Jin Xia works at the security checkpoint of Incheon Port Passenger Terminal. One day she encounters a green-haired girl who captures her attention. In need of money to escape her h...

• Berlin Panorama

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Saurav RAI
• India/Nepal
• 2023
• 114min

The film opens with a rather shocking scene and quickly transitions to the everyday life of the beloved Guras. A nine-year-old girl living in a mountainous village near Darjeeling,...

• Karlovy Vary Proxima Special Jury Prize