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• Mexico
• 2022
• 164min

Bardo is the Tibetan term for the intermediate state between death and rebirth that lasts for forty-nine days. Acclaimed journalist and documentarist Silverio Gama returns to Mexico after he “ran away from censorship” more than tw...

• Venice Film Festival In Competition

World Cinema

• France
• 2022
• 114min

On the night of October 12, 2016, twenty-one-year-old Clara Royer was doused in gasoline and burned alive. Who might have done such a barbaric thing? Yohan and the police begin their investigations around Clara′s friends and fa...

• Cannes Film Festival in Cannes Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2022
• 104min

Manas, who lost his job as a factory manager eight months ago, becomes a courier for the food delivery app Zwigato. The goal is to make ten deliveries a day. Only then he can receive incentives, and his wife doesn’t have to work a...

• Toronto International Film Festival Contemporary World Cinema

World Cinema

• Czech Republic
• 2022
• 111min

Alex needs a BANGER. He wants to become a successful musician and impress his girlfriend Sara, and in order to do so he has to record a “banger” with star rapper Sergei. When the plan to sell all his luxury clothes to raise mon...

• Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Special Screenings

Wide Angle

• Singapore
• 2022
• 62min

In Singapore in 2020, a drag performer named Opera Tang makes her debut in a pink dress as people cheer her on. She has her drag performance, through which she finds a best friend, and her lover, but the world surrounding her i...

Special Program in Focus

• 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...

Jiseok

• Uzbekistan
• 2022
• 105min

Uzbekistani director Yalkin Tuychiev’s Alteration is about the Afghanistan war. As in his previous works, Tuychiev focuses on the relationship between a historical incident and an individual’s fate. The protagonist, Rustam, is a S...

World Cinema

• Sweden/France/Finland
• 2022
• 126min

It is election season for the Grand Imam (the highest authority of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence) and the politicians in Cairo want to make sure that their chosen candidate is elected. Their new pawn in this power game is Adam, th...

• Best Screenplay Award at Cannes Film Festival

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• Italy/United States
• 2022
• 130min

Luca Guadagnino, the director of Call Me By Your Name, continues his exploration of various forms of love in Bones and All, a road movie about two wounded teenagers traveling across the United States in the 1980s. When her father ...

• Silver Lion for Best Director at Venice Film Festival

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• Philippines/France/Portugal/Denmark
• 2022
• 188min

Hermes, a capable police officer solves cold cases, feels a sense of professional ambivalence about his role in the war on drugs. Several times a day, he sees the bodies of so-called ‘drug offenders’ who have been killed on the st...

• Venice Film Festival Out of Competition