Dive into sweeping, splendid and spirit-lifting tales from across the Asia Pacific region, including the latest from festival faves Hong Sang-soo and Anthony Chen; stories from India, New Zealand and Japan; and two noteworthy Malaysian prize winners.
Asia Pacific

Absence
Lee Kang-sheng brings undeniable star power to this graceful, pensive story of a man trying to find his place in a world that has left him behind.
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Art College 1994
Auteurs Jia Zhang-ke and Bi Gan join the voice cast for this acerbic animated wonder about Chinese art students facing a rapidly changing world.
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Autobiography
In this chilling political coming-of-age film, a young housekeeper is drawn into the sinister orbit of his influential boss.
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The Breaking Ice
The French New Wave lives on in this luminous, snow-covered Gen Z love triangle from Wet Season and Ilo Ilo director Anthony Chen.
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Cobweb
Parasite’s Song Kang-ho stars as a 1970s filmmaker-in-crisis in this chaotic comedy from the director of I Saw the Devil.
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Kayo Kayo Colour?
Naturalistic and brimming with empathy, this debut drama unfolds over 24 hours in a marginalised Muslim community in India.
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Remembering Every Night
Get lost with three women as they wander a town on the outskirts of Tokyo, whose discombobulating architecture mirrors the vastness of life.
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Sand
The hauntings of the Sri Lankan Civil War are explored with quiet, incisive force in this Rotterdam Special Jury Prize winner.
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The Shadowless Tower
This beguiling tale of a middle-aged man who’s lost his bearings doubles as a charming meditation on the frayed bonds of family.
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Shut Eye
A disconnected young woman becomes dangerously obsessed with an ASMR streamer in this disorientating, distinctive debut from New Zealand.
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Stone Turtle
The supernatural encroaches on a woman’s simple existence in this FIPRESCI Prize–winning tale of folklore, deception and retribution.
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Stonewalling
A Gen Z woman contends with shifting cultural values and the one-child policy’s lasting impacts to understand her place in the world.
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Tiger Stripes
The beast is unleashed in this Cannes award-winning debut – and she’s a 12-year-old Malaysian schoolgirl whose body is changing in more ways than one.
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Walk Up
Telling four stories (or maybe just one) over four storeys, Hong Sang-soo’s latest MIFF entry is a shrewd chamber play set within a single building.
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