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 ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2020
• 110min

Toil (Jeong Soo-jeong) tutors high school student Hohoon (Shin Jae-hui), but she soon falls in love with him and gets pregnant. The film unfolds a series of playful happenings when Toil embarks on a journey to find her birth fathe...

Wide Angle

• Mongolia,UK
• 2020
• 13min

A mother overly protects her daughter by having her stay home all the time even without going to school. One day, the mother takes her daughter to a shaman to heal evil spirits, but the daughter does not believe in superstition. (...

• Cannes 2020

World Cinema

• Norway,Latvia
• 2020
• 82min

An animation about the contemporary history of Latvia told through the director’s personal memories. A girl, growing up in the Soviet Union, tries to become the best student by obediently following the teachers’ instructions. The ...

• Contrechamp at Annecy International Animated Film Festival

Open Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2020
• 120min

Xiao Chi wakes up in the morning and realizes that her long awaited Valentine’s Day has already passed. She goes to the police to file a report, but there is no way to get her lost day back. My Missing Valentine is a story about X...

• APM 2001

World Cinema

• Chile,Argentina,Mexico
• 2020
• 94min

1980s, Santiago de Chile. Based on a novel by gay writer and activist Pedro Lemebel, My Tender Matador portrays the unlikely romance of La Loca (The Queen), a poor old transvestite and Carlos, an undercover guerrilla rebel. After ...

• Venice International Film Festival Venice Days

Flash Forward

• Canada
• 2020
• 108min

What comes after an Olympic dream is realized? Nadia, a swimmer in her early twenties ? apparently too young to call it quits ? just won a medal at the biggest event of her life. She decides to retire from elite sports to escape t...

• Cannes 2020

Icons

• Mexico,France
• 2020
• 88min

Michel Franco’s New Order is the sole Spanish language film in competition at the Venice Film Festival this year. This captivating dystopian drama tells the chilling story of a sweet young bride whose good intentions go wrong when...

• Silver Lion for Grand Jury Prize at Venice International Film Festival

World Cinema

• Ivory Coast,France,Canada,Senegal
• 2020
• 93min

Maca in Cote d′Ivoire is the largest prison in West Africa. A 17-year-old boy, imprisoned for pickpocketing, is summoned by Black Beard. Black Beard names the boy as ‘Roman’ and orders him to tell all the inmates any story overnig...

• Venice International Film Festival Orrizzonti

Wide Angle

• Italy,France,Germany
• 2020
• 101min

Gianfranco Rosi, the modern documentary master, has been searching for hellish places for 3 years. Notturno features night views of Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria, Lebanon′s border areas marked by civil war, dictatorship, and terrorism. T...

• Venice International Film Festival In Competition