SNOW IN SEPTEMBER Davka is a teenager who lives in the decaying Soviet buildings in Ulaanbaatar. With his classmate, Anuka, they talk about manga and tease each other about sex. When Davka encounters an older woman, his ideas about intimacy…
THE SPOUSE This film shows us the meaning of being someone’s life companion and a mother through the life of Naran, the wife of the wrestler Tumur, and shows how love and family happiness develops amid the conflict of old…
THE FIVE DEVILS Vicky, a strange and solitary little girl, has a magical gift: she can reproduce any scent she likes, and collects them in a series of carefully labelled jars. She has secretly captured the scent of Joanne, her…
INTRODUCTION 1 the father had asked him to come but he was occupied when he came 2 she wanted to study in germany and her mother had to find cheap lodging 3 he went to see his mother at a…
NEXT SOHEE Sohee is a high school student at a vocational school. She gets excited to land an externship at a major internet provider’s call center, but the prized office job turns out to be a nightmarish workplace. The work…
BEAUTIFUL BEINGS Addi, a boy raised by a clairvoyant mother, decides to adopt a bullied misfit into his gang of outsiders. Left to their own devices, the boys explore aggression and violence but also learn about loyalty and love. As…
TRIANGLE OF SADNESS Models Carl and Yaya are navigating the world of fashion while exploring the boundaries of their relationship. The couple are invited for a luxury cruise with a rogues’ gallery of super-rich passengers, a Russian oligarch, British arms…
RETURN TO SEOUL On an impulse to reconnect with her origins, Freddie, 25, returns to South Korea for the first time, where she was born before being adopted and raised in France. The headstrong young woman starts looking for her…
R.M.N. A few days before Christmas, having quit his job in Germany, Matthias returns to his multi-ethnic Transylvanian village. He wishes to involve himself more in the education of his son, Rudi, left for too long in the care of…
THUNDER Summer 1900, in a valley in southern Switzerland. Elisabeth, 17, is about to take her vows when the sudden death of her older sister forces her to leave the convent and return to the family farm she had left…
SEIRE There is a superstition in Korea that no one should visit a wake when there’s a baby under three weeks among the family members; but Woo-jin doesn’t believe it. He receives a text message that his ex-girlfriend passed away,…
GREETINGS FROM MR. JIGJIDSUREN GOMBOJAV ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF THE ULAANBAATAR INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
