Wide Angle

• Philippines
• 2024
• 20min

A bored employee in a thrift store gets scolded by the owner for not being proactive enough. Even the fish in the tank are watching the drama unfold. (PARK Sungho)

Wide Angle

• Sweden/Finland/Denmark
• 2024
• 206min

The extraordinary unearthing of more than three decades of extensive news report footage on Israel and Palestine by Swedish national public broadcaster SVT, runs at only two hundred minutes. Documentarist Goran Hugo Olsson is well...

• Venice Out of Competition

Wide Angle

• Japan/France
• 2024
• 31min

A Garden in Winter is about Alexandra, who owns a garden where someone builds a shed to spend the night. At first, she’s bothered, but then she starts helping with the shed for someone she never met but appreciates. (PARK Sungho)

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2024
• 86min

Following Afternoon Landscape (2020) and Night Walk (2023), Sohn Koo-yong presents his third feature documentary. A cinematic wanderer who savors spaces and finds poetry in nature, Sohn ventures into a park this time with Oh Kyu-w...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2024
• 25min

Minjae, an archer nearing retirement, bets all the money she earned from match-fixing on her own loss. For her, this is the final match after an eight-year downward spiral following her last victory. The film is a gripping sports ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2024
• 27min

Junyeong works part-time at a pub while also making a documentary about laid-off workers. She is losing her confidence, wondering if she is making a film that no one will see, let alone change the world. The simple, unadorned plot...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan/Philippines/Korea
• 2024
• 100min

Wu Fan, a director from Taiwan, becomes fascinated by the free spirit of XiXi, a dancer and performance artist she meets by chance while studying in Berlin. XiXi, originally from Shanghai, marries a French husband and moves to Fra...

• 2023 ACF AND Fund Recipient

Wide Angle

• Iran/Germany
• 2024
• 83min

Narrated in the form of a reflective diary, the documentary has two main parts. One is about resisting the power that demands forgetting by remembering a free past; the other is about documenting the past and present struggle for ...

• Berlin Panorama

Wide Angle

• Palestine/Nepal
• 2024
• 96min

Basel is a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta in the West Bank. From a young age, he has resisted the forced evictions by the Israeli military and documented the harsh realities of his village. He befriends Yuval, a you...

• Berlin Documentary Award, Panorama Audience Award

Wide Angle

• France/Benin/Senegal
• 2024
• 68min

Mati Diop, director of Atlantics (2019), has returned with Dahomey. The film begins with the return of 26 treasures to the Dahomey Kingdom, previously held by the Musee du Quai Branly in Paris. Once in Benin, there is a heated deb...

• Berlin Golden Bear