New Currents

• Jaishankar ARYAR
• India
• 2022
• 104min

Shivamma is an ardent sales rep for the energy drink Nuracle. The multilevel marketing method at Nuracle is her only belief and motivation for life. To Shivamma, living in a poor town on the outskirts of a city with her bed-ridden...

Wide Angle

• Han LEE
• Korea
• 2022
• 30min

An indie filmmaker announces his retirement at his own screening and drinks himself into stupor. When he wakes up with a hangover, characters from his films rush into his home. A film about film with self-mockery and self-homage...

Special Program in Focus

• Shinzo KATAYAMA
• Japan
• 2022
• 91min

Katayama Shinzo poured his heart and soul into the film, serving as director, writer and editor on this portrayal of a brother and a sister struggling to survive which was shot over four seasons. Having served as an assistant dire...

Special Program in Focus

• Ossama MOHAMMED,Wiam Simav BEDIRXAN
• France/Syria
• 2022
• 93min

Can smartphones be a new weapon for the people of the 21st century? Today anyone can take a picture of the lowest places on earth with a camera in their hand and send it to the world. Silvered Water, Syria Self- Portrait was creat...

• Cannes Film Festival Special Screenings

Jiseok

• M.L. Bhandevanov DEVAKULA
• Thailand
• 2022
• 128min

Six Characters is possibly the most highly anticipated Thai film this year, not least of all for its star-studded cast. On a shooting set filled with tension, a nervous director (Mario Maurer) tries to shoot a horror movie. The wi...

Special Program in Focus

• Sho MIYAKE
• Japan/France
• 2022
• 100min

The latest film by Miyake Sho, one of the most anticipated Japanese filmmakers, is a creative, never-before-seen movie about boxing based on the autobiographical story of Ogasawara Keiko, the first hearing-impaired professional bo...

• Berlin International Film Festival Encounters

Wide Angle

• Alvin LEE
• Singapore
• 2022
• 20min

Three siblings who are gathered at their father’s funeral learn that the body of their deceased father has been accidentally switched with another. Amid confusion, they act in tears to protect their social dignity in front of re...

Special Program in Focus

• José Luis GUERIN
• Spain
• 2022
• 67min

Driven by his fascination of black-and-white silent films from the early 20th century, Spanish filmmaker Jose? Luis Guerin envisioned a mystical documentary of romantic fantasies that have nearly disappeared in the 21st century. A...

On Screen

• Ji-woo JUNG
• Korea
• 2022
• 150min

Kim Sum (Kang Hae-lim), who has difficulty communicating with others, has invented a groundbreaking social media application. Kim’s friend, Kieun (Kim Su-yeon), is a police officer in the cyber investigation unit. Mokwon (Kim Yong...

Flash Forward

• Clément COGITORE
• France
• 2022
• 99min

After his first fiction feature film, Neither Heaven Nor Earth (2015), Clement Cogitore now explores a dark street of Paris where trafficking is prevalent and alienated people are residing in Sons of Ramses. Ramses is a clairvoy...

• Cannes Film Festival Critics′ Week