Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2021
• 97min

On October 16, 1979, Pusan National University students took to the streets, calling for the abolition of the Park Chung-hee regime′s Yushin order. That was the beginning. The heat of the protest spread like wildfire for five days...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan/Myanmar
• 2021
• 79min

RAIN IN 2020 is a seven-year documentary about the struggles of Ah-Tian, a young jade miner in Myanmar, and his family. There are three things that make life difficult for Ah-Tian, who is also director Lee Yong Chao′s younger brot...

Wide Angle

• Korea/Thailand
• 2021
• 93min

After the dissolution of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was launched as a South Korean government organization in 2005, civic groups and bereaved families wishing to complete the mission the government had failed t...

• 2018 AND BIFF Mecenat Fund

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Singapore/Thailand
• 2021
• 77min

Two men are passionately engaging in a sexual romp in a bedroom, when a sound engineer suddenly appears, unnoticed. He is in the process of capturing sounds for a very specific collection. Amid the still days and clear nights he f...

Flash Forward

• Finland/Germany/Estonia/Russia
• 2021
• 108min

At the end of her studies and an affair in Moscow, Laura from Finland boards on a train to Murmansk to see some ancient petroglyphs. She finds herself sharing Compartment No. 6 with Ljoha, a brash-talking, vodka-swilling Russian m...

• Grand Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival

Special Program in Focus

• Lebanon
• 2021
• 127min

A Lebanese boy serving time as a violent offender sues his parents. His reason? "Because I was born." Zain, whose parents don’t even know his date of birth, has many younger siblings. When his sister Sahar is sold to their landlor...

• Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival

World Cinema

• Russia
• 2021
• 106min

After winning multiple awards at Venice and Berlin, director Aleksey German Jr. arrived at Cannes with House Arrest, a whistleblower′s drama that is perfectly in sync with the current events around the world. As the saying goes, "...

• Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard

New Currents

• Iran
• 2021
• 85min

1917 (2019) is the first to come to mind when discussing films that were completed without cuts. To amplify the realness of war, the entire movie is in one shot?it was filmed in uncut takes that are seamlessly connected to look li...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2021
• 120min

A young man named Takeshi arrives at a small fishing village. He gets a job at a squid cannery and moves into an old apartment with the help of the cannery owner. Takeshi’s monotonous life is interrupted by a visit from his neighb...

New Currents

• Korea
• 2021
• 140min

Sookyung lives with her daughter Yijung. They don′t quite get along, though. Sookyung is too hot tempered, while Yijung is slow and passive. After having a fight one day, Sookyung runs over Yijung, who thinks she did it on purpose...