New Currents

• Myanmar
• 2020
• 98min

Wai Bhone, a young film director, has to overcome the tough realities in order to direct his debut film. The hard worked scenario is criticised and undermined by the unpretentious censorship of the authorities. The film producers ...

New Currents

• Kazakhstan,Korea,Uzbekistan
• 2020
• 112min

Soviet Kazakhstan in 1979. Sher becomes an intern in a team led by the competent Soviet investigator Snegirev. The team is chasing a cannibalistic serial killer. The authorities order the criminal to be treated in a mental hospita...

New Currents

• Armenia,Germany,Netherlands
• 2020
• 91min

An innocent girl in a village is bullied by her family and villagers for her poor behavior, and she is called Chnchik that means stupid instead of her real name. Her mistakes become a neighbor′s laughter, and her parents, who are ...

New Currents

• Nepal
• 2020
• 96min

Clever and ambitious Bidya is a thirteen-year-old girl from a rural village in Nepal. She has a gambler for a father, a troublemaker brother named Basanta, and a mother who is determined to provide her a better life. She despera...

New Currents

• Japan
• 2020
• 153min

Documentary director Yuko portrays a school violence incident from three years ago that resulted in suicides, while she was teaching classes at her father’s cram school. As her documentary project progresses, Yuko discovers a hidd...

New Currents

• Korea
• 2020
• 110min

Gangi, Soyeong, and Aram are best friends who go to the same high school. Gangi appears relatively normal, compared to Soyeong who dreams of becoming a model, or Aram who is unique in her own special way. One day, they decide to r...

New Currents

• India,United States
• 2020
• 100min

Sixteen-year-old orphan Pachpan is a skilled pickpocket in a group of orphan pickpockets in a train station in Mumbai. Called by numbers rather than names, the boys have been abandoned by their parents to the merciless Sagar Bhai ...

New Currents

• Azerbaijan,France
• 2020
• 86min

Bilesuvar begins with the passing images of a tasteless landscape in the suburbs of Azerbaijan. Soon, a young man enlisting in the military is spending boring days feeling an unknown future and his own uneasy presence. As the enli...

New Currents

• Korea
• 2020
• 81min

Middle-aged worker Jaebok recently lost a lawsuit asking for the invalidation of his recent dismissal. Sitting in a tent in the cold weather, he and his colleagues lose their will to fight further and feel pity for not being able ...

New Currents

• China
• 2020
• 88min

Thirteen-year-old Guo, who lives with a selfish cousin, an always-tired aunt and her family, wants to live with her newly remarried mom in Shanghai. When a friend drowns while playing with Guo by the riverside, Guo flees the scene...