May 2024
27th DocsBarcelona International Documentary Film Festival | Barcelona, Spain | May 2 – 12, 2024
Agent of Happiness by Arun Bhattarai and Dorottya Zurbó – Hungary, Bhutan | 2024 – 94 minutes | Documentary
Artificial Immortality by Ann Shin – Canada | 2021 – 73 minutes | Documentary
Johatsu – Into Thin Air by Andreas Hartmann and Arata Mori – Germany, Japan | 2024 – 84 minutes | Documentary
More information: https://docsbarcelona.com/es/
Doxa Documentary Film Festival | Vancouver, Canada | May 2 – 12, 2024
– Feature Films –
Between Pictures: The Lens of Tamio Wakayama by Cindy Mochizuki – Canada, USA | 2024 – 71 minutes | Documentary
Black Box Diaries by Shiori Ito – Japan | 2024 – 103 minutes | Documentary
The World is Family by Anand Patwardhan – India | 2023 – 96 minutes | Documentary
– Short Films –
This Line Connects the Void by Tram Nghiem – Canada | 2023 – 16 minutes | Documentary
Wouldn’t Make It Any Other Way by Hao Zhou – USA, Guam | 2024 – 21 minutes | Documentary
More information: https://www.doxafestival.ca/
International Festival of Animated Films ANIFILM | Liberec, Czech Republic | May 7 – 12, 2024
– Feature Films –
The Boy and the Heron by Hayao Miyazaki – Japan | 2023 – 125 minutes | Animation
– Short Films –
(D)Infinity by Taewan Kim – UK | 2023 – 3 minutes | Animation
Braided by Chenxi Zhang – USA, China | 2023 – 6 minutes | Animation
Chamber of Shadows by Seyoung Ok – Korea | 2023 – 11 minutes | Animation
Dodo by Yi Luo – Germany | 2023 – 12 minutes | Animation
Fazi: Delingha by Li Lu – China | 2023 – 5 minutes | Animation
Frequency by Ellie Omiya – Japan | 2023 – 30 minutes | Animation
Hilgeum: Illusion by Jin Woo – Korea | 2023 – 5 minutes | Animation
Keep Out by Tan-Lui Chan – Czech Republic, Korea | 2023 – 8 minutes | Animation
Mars Colony Plan by Yongsun Lee – Korea | 2023 – 12 minutes | Animation
Miserable Miracle by Ryo Orikasa – France, Japan, Canada | 2023 – 8 minutes | Animation
Mr. Rabbit by Bryan Lee – USA | 2023 – 21 minutes | Animation
Outsider by Zixia Cao, Hongyin Ju, Qing Yang – China | 2023 – 7 minutes | Animation
Overheating by Yuna Tang, Nathan Yeom, Lizzy Bovee, Jiin Chung – Hong Kong | 2023 – 3 minutes | Animation
Propaganda by Izumi Tanaka – Japan, Mexico | 2023 – 4 minutes | Animation
SEN by Keisuke Itoh – Japan | 2023 – 15 minutes | Animation
Shape of the Elephant by Sam Kuwa – Japan | 2023 – 8 minutes | Animation
Shapes by Tsz-wing Ho – Hong Kong | 2023 – 5 minutes | Animation
More information: https://www.anifilm.cz/en/
Seattle International Film Festival | Seattle, USA | May 9 – 19, 2024
– Feature Films –
Admissions Granted by Hao Wu, Miao Wang – USA | 2024 – 90 minutes
Agent of Happiness by Dorottya Zurbó, Arun Bhattarai – Bhutanm Hungary | 2024 – 93 minutes | Documentary
Agra by Kanu Behl – India, France | 2023 – 132 minutes
All Shall Be Well by Ray Yeung – Hong Kong, China | 2024 – 93 minutes | Fiction
Black Box Diaries by Shiori Ito – Japan, USA, UK | 2024 – 104 minutes | Documentary
The Box Man by Gakuryû Ishii – Japan | 2024 – 120 minutes | Fiction
City of Wind by Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir – Mongolia, France, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Qatar | 2023 – 103 minutes | Fiction
Didi by Sean Wang – USA | 2024 – 96 minutes | Fiction
Dragon Superman by Satoru Kobayashi – Taiwan | 1968 – 90 minutes | Fiction
The Etilaat Roz by Abbas Rezale – Afghanistan | 2022 – 92 minutes | Documentary
Evil Does Not Exist by by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi – Japan | 2023 – 105 minutes | Fiction
Girls Will Be Girls by Shuchi Talati – India, France, USA, Norway | 2024 – 118 minutes | Fiction
In Our Day by Hong Sang-soo – Korea | 2023 – 84 minutes | Fiction
Iron Mask by Kim Sung Hwan – Korea | 2023 – 99 minutes | Fiction
A Journey in Spring by Tzu-Hui Peng, Ping-Wen Wang – Taiwan | 2023 – 90 minutes | Fiction
July Rhapsody by Ann Hui – Hong Kong | 2002 – 103 minutes | Fiction
Killing Romance by Lee Won-luk – Korea | 2023 – 107 minutes | Fiction
The Missing by Carl Joseph E. Papa – Philippines | 2023 – 90 minutes | Animation
Pigsy by Li-Wei Chiu – Taiwan | 2023 – 95 minutes | Animation
The Queen of My Dreams by Fawzia Mirza – Canada | 2023 – 97 minutes | Fiction
Tenement by Sokyou Chea, Inrasothythep Neth – Cambodia | 2024 – 84 minutes | Fiction
Tiger Stripes by Amanda Nell Eu – Malaysia, Taiwan, Singapore, France, Germany, Netherlands, Qatar | 2023 – 95 minutes | Fiction
– Short Films –
A.A. by Auden Bui – USA | 2023 – 6 minutes | Fiction
Basri & Salma in a Never-Ending Comedy by Khozy Rizal – Indonesia | 2023 – 15 minutes | Fiction
Bold Eagle by Whammy Alcazaren – Philippines | 2022 – 17 minutes | Fiction
Hair Universe by Jinuk Choi – Korea | 2023 – 12 minutes | Animation
Is This Now the Time I Should Let You Go? by Yi-Chin Tsai – Taiwan, Finland, Belgium, Portugal | 2023 – 9 minutes | Experimental
Let by Alyssa Loh – USA | 2024 – 17 minutes | Fiction
Magic Candies by Daisuke Nishio – Japan | 2023 – 21 minutes | Animation
My Heart and Other Black Holes by Samiksha Thakur – USA | 2024 – 5 minutes | Fiction
Of Silence and Song by Leyi Dai – USA | 2023 – 14 minutes | Fiction
Pipe Dreams by Christina Woo – USA | 2023 – 7 minutes | Animation
Pisko the Crab Child is in Love by Makoto Nagahisa – Japan | 2024 – 18 minutes | Fiction
Primetime Mother by Sonny Calvento – Philippines, Singapore | 2023 – 15 minutes | Fiction
Sweet Juices by Sejon Im, Will Suen – Australia | 2023 – 15 minutes | Fiction
The Guardian Lion and Budaixi by Hsieh-Cheng Tsai, You-Cheng Lai, Shih-Peng Chang, Shao-Xuan Weng, Min-Xiang Zhang, You-Xun Lai – Taiwan | 2022 – 10 minutes | Animation
Unpaused by Yiheng Yao – China | 2024 – 5 minutes | Fiction
More information: http://www.siff.net/
Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival | Warsaw and Wroclaw, Poland | May 10 – 19, 2024
– Feauture Films –
After the Snowmelt by Lo Yi-Shan – Taiwan, Japan | 2024 – 110 minutes| Documentary
Agent of Happiness by Arun Bhattarai, Dorottya Zurbó – Bhutan, Hungary | 2024 – 94 minutes | Documentary
Black Box Diaries by Shiori Ito – Japan, USA, UK | 2024 – 104 minutes | Documentary
Campaign by Kazuhiro Sôda – Japan, USA | 2007 – 120 minutes | Documentary
Invisible Nation by Vannesa Hope – USA, Taiwan | 2023 – 82 minutes | Documentary
Nocturnes by Anupama Srinivasan, Anirban Dutta – India, USA | 2023 – 83 minutes | Documentary
Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus by Neo Sora – Japan | 2023 – 103 minutes | Documentary
Sultana’s Dream by Isabel Herguera – Germany, Spain, India | 2023 – 87 minutes | Documentary
The Last Year of Darkness by Benjamin Mullinkosson – China, USA | 2023 – 92 minutes | Documentary
The Making of a Japanese by Ema Ryan Yamazaki – Japan, USA, France, Finland | 2023 – 99 minutes | Documentary
– Short Films –
Dentures by Siddharth Potade, Nikhil Lama – India | 2023 – 16 minutes | Documentary
Wouldn’t Make It Any Other Way by Hao Zhou – USA, Guam | 2024 – 21 minutes | Documentary
More information: https://mdag.pl/20/en/warszawa/homepage
77th Cannes Film Festival | Cannes, France | May 15 – 24, 2024
– Feature Films –
All We Imagine as Light by Payal Kapadia – India, France, Luxemburg, Italy | 2024 – 115 minutes | Fiction
Caught by the Tides by Jia Zhangke – China | 2024 – Fiction
Black Dog by Guan Hu – China | 2024
My Sunshine by Hiroshi Okuyama – France, Japan | 2024
Santosh by Sandhya Suri – France, Germany, India, UK | 2024
Viet and Nam by Minh Quý Trương – France, Philippines, Vietnam | 2024
She’s Got No Name by Peter Chan – China, Hong Kong | 2024
I, the Executioner by Ryoo Seung-wan – Korea | 2024
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In by Soi Cheang – China, Hong Kong | 2024
Meeting with Pol Pot by Rithy Panh – Cambodia, France | 2024
An Unfinished Film by Lou Ye – China | 2024
Bona by Lino Brocka – Philippines | 1980 *Restoration
The Churning by Shyam Benegal – India | 1976 *Restoration
Shanghai Blues by Tsui Hark – Hong Kong | 1984 *Restoration
– Short Films –
Across the Waters by Viv Li – China, France | 2024 – 15 minutes
Forest of Echoes by Yoori Lim – Korea | 2023 – 22 minutes
Sunflowers Were The First Ones to Know… by Chidananda S Naik – India | 2023 – 16 minutes
Three by Amie Song – USA | 2024
More information: https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/
Semaine de la critique | Cannes, France | May 15 – 23, 2024
– Feature Films –
Blue Sun Palace by Constance Tsang – USA | 2024 – 116 minutes | Fiction
Locust by KEFF – Taiwan, France, USA | 2024 – 128 minutes | Fiction
– Short Films –
Radikals by Arvin Belarmino – Philippines, USA, Bangladesh, France | 2024 – 20 minutes
More information: https://www.semainedelacritique.com/en
Director’s Fortnight | Cannes, France | May 15 – 25, 2024
– Feature Films –
Desert of Namibia by Yoko Yamanaka – Japan | 2024
Ghost Cat Anzu by Yoko Kuno, Nobuhiro Yamashita – Japan | 2024
Mongrel by Chiang Wei Liang, You Qiao Yin – Taiwan | 2024
Sister Midnight by Karan Kandhari – India | 2024
– Short Films –
Extremely Short by Koji Yamamura – Japan | 2024
Mulbery Fields by Nguyễn Trung Nghĩa – Vietnam | 2024
More information: https://www.quinzaine-cineastes.fr/en
IndieLisboa International Film Festival | Lisbon, Portugal | May 23 – Jun 2, 2024
– Feature Films –
A Traveler’s Needs by Hong Sang-soo – Korea | 2024 – 90 minutes | Fiction
City of Wind by Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir – France, Mongolia, Portugal, Netherlands, Germany, Qatar | 2023 – 103 minutes | Fiction
Cobweb by Kim Jee-Woon – Korea | 2023 – 135 minutes | Fiction
Following The Sound by Kyoshi Sugita – Japan | 2023 – 84 minutes | Fiction
Monisme by Rir Rizaldi – Indonesia, Qatar | 2023 – 115 minutes
The Missing by Carl Joseph Papa – Philippines | 2023 – 90 minutes | Animation
– Short Films –
Ade (On a Sunday) by Theja Rio – India | 2023 – 17 minutes | Fiction
An Asian Ghost Story by Bo Wang – Netherlands, Hong Kong | 2023 – 37 minutes | Fiction
Oyu by Atsushi Hirai – France, Japan | 2023 – 22 minutes | Fiction
Sweet Juices by Sejon Im, Will Suen – Australia |2023 – 15 minutes | Fiction
Void by Yusuke Iwasaki – Japan | 2024 – 24 minutes |Fiction
More information: http://www.indielisboa.com/
64th Krakow Film Festival | Krakow, Poland | May 26 – June 2, 2024
– Feature Films –
Johatsu – Into Thin Air by Andreas Hartmann, Arata Mori – Germany, Japan | 2024 – 84 minutes | Documentary
– Short Films –
Amma’s Pride by Shiva Krish – India | 2024 – 20 minutes | Documentary
Cry Me Through Hell by Jae Yang – Taiwan | 2023 – 29 minutes | Fiction
Dark Cloud Memories by Seung-hee Jung – South Korea | 2024 – 12 minutes | Animation
Open Eyes by Qi Zhang – China | 2023 – 18 minutes | Fiction
More information: https://www.krakowfilmfestival.pl/en/
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