A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan/France
• 2022
• 123min

In Harmonium (2016), the winner of the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at Cannes, or A Girl Missing (2019), which competed at Locarno, Fukada Koji focuses on how our unrealistic image of the family may be, in fact, rather dangerous. ...

• Venice Film Festival In Competition, 2020 APM Project

World Cinema

• United States
• 2022
• 106min

Raymond & Ray follows half-brothers Raymond and Ray, who have lived in the shadow of a terrible father. Somehow, they still each have a sense of humor, and his funeral is a chance for them to reinvent themselves. There’s anger,...

• Toronto International Film Festival Gala Presentations

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2022
• 160min

Forty-year-old Leila is busy taking care of her parents and four brothers. The men of her family work hard, but none can escape poverty. Despite their poor circumstances, their father still views himself as the patriarch of the cl...

• FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes Film Festival

Wide Angle

• United States
• 2022
• 94min

Retrograde captures the final nine months of America′s twenty-year war in Afghanistan from multiple perspectives: one of the last US Special Forces units deployed there as their occupation winds down, a young Afghan general and...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Malaysia/Indonesia/Korea
• 2022
• 114min

Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, and Seoul. Three couples in three cities in three countries: The paths of a telemarketer for a loan company and a cart rink owner are destined to cross. A pub owner and a woman with their own background stor...

World Cinema

• Brazil/France
• 2022
• 100min

Simone is training to work as a public defender for women who are victims of domestic violence. However, as dusk falls she turns into an online porn star to work her way through law school, and ventures into the dangerous world...

• Golden Leopard at Locarno International Film Festival

Special Program in Focus

• France/United States/United Kingdom
• 2022
• 93min

A monumental documentary filmed from an anthropologist’s perspective by directors Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor of the Harvard University’s Sensory Ethnography Lab. Two directors board a trawler with twelve GoPro camer...

• FIPRESCI Prize at Locarno International Film Festival

A Window on Asian Cinema

• France
• 2022
• 119min

When her flight to Japan is re-routed due to a typhoon, Freddie (Park Jimin) finds herself on Korean soil for the first time since she was adopted to France as a child. Totally unfamiliar with the language and culture, she tries h...

• Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2022
• 97min

Model student Xiao Lan goes on a date with a popular boy in her class named Wu Miao and ends up having sex. Unlike Xiao Lan, who believes that they were in love, Wu Miao loses interest in her, and intimate photos of her are leaked...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2022
• 80min

Mariam, who lives with her husband Abdul and three daughters, is in the final month of her pregnancy. The girls, who are unable to attend school due to the Covid pandemic, need at least a smartphone if not a computer to attend onl...

• 2022 ACF Post-Production Fund