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Blue Mountain. White Cloud

There is a story circulating among Zen Buddhist monks about two types of monks. First ones are settled and spend all their life in a monastery, they are identified with the blue mountains, while others are like white clouds – constantly traveling from one place to another. In the film, the filmmaker and Won Bo Sunim, a Lithuanian woman who decided to go to South Korea more than 20 years ago and become a Zen monk, embark on a journey in the mountains of South Korea.

Blue Mountain. White Cloud

NR 2024
Sinking Latitude

Considering the underground as both a metaphor and a manifest reality, Zheng’s film Sinking Latitude focuses on a myth about underground flooding. The city where the story takes place (Zigong city in the Sichuan province, China) has a history of salt mining that spans more than 2000 years, and generations of residents who have lived there have passed down a prophetic myth for centuries–that due to excessive mining, the city's underground has long been hollowed out and depleted, filling with salty brine, and that one day, when an earthquake occurs, an underground flood of salty liquid, the mine itself, will surge out and engulf the city.

Sinking Latitude

NR 2024
OUTATIME

Itsuki, a young man who works at a PR company, can’t resist his curiosity and instinctively accepts the job of "making a movie in Fukushima." But in the next moment, the movie-loving president suddenly demands, "I want to see a science fiction movie with a time machine!" As the day of presenting the pitch approaches, Itsuki is desperate and lost on the beach. Suddenly, a strange old lady appears. "Let's go find a time machine!'’ They set out in search of a "cool vehicle," in a small 2-person truck.

OUTATIME

NR 2024
The Witches' Carnival

In 1988, workers at the 'Busan Working Women's House' study the Labor Standards Act, receive overdue salaries, and take menstrual leave and pre- and post-partum leave. As the subdivided women's movement develops, Busan women also take to the streets to fight against domestic and sexual violence. Around the same time, female students in Busan and South Gyeongsang Province actively campaigned to create school rules to regulate sexual violence in universities. In 2000, Pusan ​​National University's first feminist festival

The Witches' Carnival

NR 2024
Makoto Kitano's We Are Psychic Detectives: Solve the Paranormal with Science and Academia!

An experimental project aimed at solving paranormal phenomena like ghosts and yokai through scientific and academic approaches. The chief himself analyzes famous haunted spots while driving a car equipped with the latest sensors, and the familiar team of popular detectives conduct thorough investigations at these locations. They also unravel the mysteries of regional yokai based on academic research.

Makoto Kitano's We Are Psychic Detectives: Solve the Paranormal with Science and Academia!

NR 2024
The Midnight Sun

Fumi has decided to move out and live on her own, but she worries about leaving behind her interfering father and older brother Mucchan, who has hidden away in his room for ten years. One day, she wanders into a strange town where the sun never sets, and happens to run into Mucchan there. Fumi’s father still meddles excessively in her life, and her brother gradually becomes invisible. Fumi’s vision juxtaposes her suffocating everyday life and summer days spent with her brother filled with laughter. Director Hina Murata’s first feature film, The Midnight Sun freely switches between screen sizes to delicately portray Fumi’s world. The effective use of embroidery as a prop, together with refreshing performances from Sakiko Honda as Fumi and Saki Toyoyama as Mucchan, bring a sense of reality to this wondrous world.

The Midnight Sun

NR 2024
Efterskole, Going to the Wonderland Korea

In South Korea, getting into a prestigious university is a measure of success. In this ‘strange country’, the majority of people run toward the same goal. But there are ‘Alices’ who have taken the bold step of stepping on the brakes in their life and choosing a different route from the conventional path. Korean youth who have embarked on a journey in search of the “freedom to look sideways” offer these encouraging words of comfort to all of us who are determined to push forward, not knowing how to slow down.

Efterskole, Going to the Wonderland Korea

NR 2024