41st International Film Festival of Uruguay – Asian Presence 2023

By Asian Film Festival on March 26, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

We take a look at the Asian films that will be screened at the International Film Festival of Uruguay which will take place from April 5 – 16, 2023 in Montevideo, Uruguay.

– Feature Films –

**A Woman** by Wang Chao – China | 2022 – 118 minutes*

From the late 1960s to the early 1980s, Kong Xiu, an ordinary female worker, bravely got rid of the shackles of two unfortunate marriages, and grew up to be a writer in her spare time in the heavy workshop work. (MUBI)

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**Decision To Leave** by Park Chan Wook – Korea | 2022 – 138 minutes

From a mountain peak in South Korea, a man plummets to his death. Did he jump, or was he pushed? When detective Hae-joon arrives on the scene, he begins to suspect the dead man’s wife Seo-rae. But as he digs deeper into the investigation, he finds himself trapped in a web of deception and desire. (MUBI)

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**Next Sohee** by July Jung – Korea | 2022 – 135 minutes

Sohee is a high school student focusing on a job training education. Hoping for a good job, Sohee starts an job training at a subcontracted call center, but she faces big pressure of greedy company. It is too hard for high school student to bear this situation and it leads to her death. (MUBI)

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**Walk Up** by Hong Sang-Soo – Korea | 2022 – 97 minutes

Korean auteur Hong Sangsoo adds a new chapter to his impressive body of work, taking a gently delightful new perspective on themes dear to his poetics. (MUBI)

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– Short Films –

**A Lost Astronaut and a City of Footprints** by Vu Nguyen Nam Khue – Vietnam | 2022 – 15 minutes

An executive trapped in his own nightmares. In those dreams, he becomes a woman, the wife of a colleague. In those dreams, the belongings of the deceased astronaut are handed over to the wife. The woman and the bureaucracy, the executive and his recurring nightmares. How can one escapes? (MUBI)

**All Tomorrow’s Parties** by Zhang Dalei – China | 2023 – 24 minutes*

China during the 1990 Asian Games. A cinema screening is taking place at a factory in the evening. The janitor distributes the limited tickets while a shy poet waits for someone. (MUBI)

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**Further and Further Away** by Polen Ly – Cambodia | 2022 – 24 minutes*

Before their impending departure for the capital city, two siblings must first bid farewell to the place they called home, each in their own way. (MUBI)

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**Will You Look At Me** by Shuli Huang – China | 2022 – 20 minutes

As a young Chinese filmmaker returns to his hometown in search for himself, a long due conversation with his mother dives the two of them into a quest for acceptance and love. (MUBI)

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