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Kiarostami, Abbas

Like Someone in Love Like Someone in Love

Iran’s greatest living filmmaker travels to Tokyo for this understated, enigmatic romantic drama. Unbeknownst to her boyfriend, the enchanting university student Akiko secretly moonlights as an escort. An encounter with a client - a shy, elderly academic - leads to an unconventional, unexpectedly intimate relationship in which nothing is quite as it seems.

Japanese with subtitles, 109 min

Kim, Kangmin

38-39°C 38-39°C

The connection between a father and son is explored in this gorgeous paper-based stop motion animation set in a steam-filled old public bathhouse.

Part of: Shorts 2: Blurring the Lines

No Dialogue, 8 min

Kim, Tae-kyeong

Don't Click Don't Click

When cyber junkie Jung-mi learns of a sinister new “forbidden” internet video, she’ll stop at nothing to find it. However, the morbid video has strange effects on its viewers, and soon Jung-mi and her sister seem to be under a bizarre and terrifying curse. Playing on 21st century obsessions with technology, surveillance and internet fame, Don’t Click plays like an updated version of cult Japanese horror film Ringu for the dot-com generation.

Korean with subtitles, 91 min

King, Nick

Marla Marla

Marla and Sam meet and flirt in the restroom of a bar, but this isn’t just a story of boy meets girl. Hands down, this just may be the strangest, and most inventive, love story you've ever seen.

Part of: Shorts 4: Not OK, Cupid!

English, 15 min

Kingsley, Tom

Black Pond Black Pond

The Thompsons, a seemingly ordinary (if somewhat pathetic) family unit, are accused of murder when Blake, a mysterious, gloomy stranger they’ve invited over, turns up dead. The family’s struggle with their newfound notoriety plays out in a tragicomic disintegration of their already somewhat dysfunctional relationships in this offbeat, absurdist and laugh-out-loud funny mockumentary.

English, 86 min

Kurtz, Nadav

Paradise Paradise

Three Mexican immigrants risk their lives washing windows on some of the tallest skyscrapers in Chicago. This thoughtful portrayal of their everyday lives reveals their thoughts about working, mortality, and the people they observe inside the high-rises they clean.

Part of: Shorts 1: City & State

English and Spanish subtitles, 10 min

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