Four Asian films will be screened during the Reykjavík International Film Festival which will take place from September 28 until October 8, 2023 in Reykjavík, Iceland.

– Feature Films –

Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell by Pham Thien An – Vietnam, Singapore, France, Spain | 2023 – 179 minutes | Fiction
Thien, a detached and morose Saigon thirtysomething, has little idea that his life is about to be pushed towards a vast spiritual reckoning. After learning of his sister-in-law’s death in a motorcycle accident, he is given temporary custody of her five-year-old son; together, uncle and nephew begin the arduous mission of returning the body to her home village for burial while searching for the boy’s father – Thien’s long-lost brother. (MIFF 2023)

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Kennedy by Anurag Kashyap – India | 2022 – 144 minutes | Fiction
Kennedy is a former cop suffering from insomnia. Officially thought to be dead, he works for a corrupt system, desperately in search of his own redemption… A gripping, sometimes poetic crime drama that delivers a corrosive critique of local Mumbai politics, Kennedy is an ambitious and creative neo-noir. Anurag Kashyap’s new film – part of Cannes’ official selection this year – is, as always, poles apart from the dominant Indian blockbuster culture. (NIFFF 2023)

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Young (Spring) by Wang Bing – France, Luxembourg, Netherlands | 2023 – 212 minutes | Documentary
For the workers on Happiness Road, life is anything but. This street is a microcosm of Zhili, a regional manufacturing capital 150 kilometres from Shanghai that specialises in children’s clothing, where factories are mostly manned by young recruits from neighbouring provinces. Their days are soundtracked by C-pop, which they blast to drown out the whir of industrial sewing machines, churning out wares at unfathomable speeds to meet punishing quotas. At night, they retire to dismal dormitories, too exhausted to dream of a better life. (MIFF 2023)

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– Short Film –

Heirlooms by Devina Sofiyanti, Giovanni Rahmadeva – Indonesia | 2022 – 17 minutes | Fiction
A woman tries to escape from a wrapped ghost, Pocong, by hiding in a man’s house. Later, she realizes that the man is scarier than the Pocong itself. (Mubi)

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