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...

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...

New Currents

• Vietnam/Germany
• 2021
• 99min

The film opens with the death of a mother. Although her heartbeat stops, her consciousness continues worrying about her son and blessing him. Her neighbour digs a grave near the house in the field for her, but the son insists on c...

• 2016 ACF Script Development Fund

New Currents

• Indonesia
• 2021
• 130min

Sur, a freshman, volunteers as a web designer for a university theatre group. Their premiere is successful, and she is invited to a party. She attends the party and is caught up in the exciting music and a welcoming atmosphere, bu...

New Currents

• Kazakhstan
• 2021
• 113min

Anar marries Marat and lives with him and his son Adil. Pregnant Anar requires care, as she is anemic and at a high risk of miscarriage. When Marat hastens their move to the countryside, Anar finds herself in unfamiliar surroundin...

New Currents

• Korea
• 2021
• 102min

Seire is the period of twenty-one days in which people are supposed to take utmost care in their behaviors and strangers are not allowed to visit to protect a newborn baby from bad luck. The film Seire takes an idea from this folk...

New Currents

• Iran
• 2021
• 77min

Asteroid follows Ebrahim, a poor boy who works all day to care for his mother and younger siblings, and discovers a saintly aura in his efforts. A film that joins a long line of outstanding Iranian films about children, alongside ...

New Currents

• India
• 2021
• 125min

At 6 am on June 21, a doctor in the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic meets a woman clad in a protective suit during his morning jog. After ignoring the woman’s pleas to see a patient at her house, he receives a blow to the head...

New Currents

• Japan/Korea
• 2021
• 124min

The second film by Katayama Shinzo, who served as an assistant director for Bong Joon Ho in Tokyo! (2008) and Mother (2009), Missing is a thriller that carries a heavy resonance. After his business fails, the father, who used to r...

New Currents

• China
• 2021
• 83min

Farewell, My Hometown consists of three episodes. In the first episode, an elderly woman living in the mountains reflects on her life and recounts experiences of excruciating poverty, hard labor, and her child’s death, as the beau...