Flash Forward

• Nicaragua/Mexico/Netherlands/Germany/France/Norway
• 2022
• 91min

Eleven-year-old Maria and her mother, Lilibeth, live on the fringe of Nicaragua’s biggest garbage dump. They survive by recycling waste and breeding puppies. They live in abject poverty so their relationship is strained, but Ma...

• Toronto International Film Festival Discovery

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2022
• 120min

Propelled by the pulsing beats of Toronto’s early hip hop scene, Brother is the story of Francis and Michael, sons of Caribbean immigrants, who are maturing into young men in a housing project called The Park. The brothers’ bri...

• Toronto International Film Festival Special Presentations

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• France
• 2022
• 111min

The family members in the film, from grandparents to grandsons, call each other with their first names and give the impression that they each have strong self-identities. Especially two siblings, the eldest daughter Alice who is a...

• Cannes Film Festival Competition

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• Korea
• 2022
• 130min

The story of a family produced by Kore-eda Hirokazu has taken a path of transition and expansion. In Broker, he explores the possibilities of an alternative family. Single mother Soyoung (Lee Ji Eun) leaves her baby, Woosung, in a...

• Best Actor Award at Cannes Film Festival

World Cinema

• Chile/Mexico/Luxembourg/France/Poland
• 2022
• 98min

Eighteen-year-old Blanquita is the key witness to a sexual scandal involving rich and powerful men taking advantage of children from the streets. However, as the investigation progresses, holes in her testimony are poked at and ...

• Orizzonti Award for Best Screenplay at Venice Film Festival

Open Cinema

• France/Belgium
• 2022
• 80min

The Black Pharaoh, the Savage and the Princess the latest film by Michel Ocelot, the french animation master who directed the legendary Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998). This fantastic adventure piece takes us to Egypt, Africa, Au...

Wide Angle

• Hong Kong, China/Taiwan/Japan
• 2022
• 97min

Blue Island is a moving documentary that proposes to look back at Hong Kong’s unfinished democratic revolution from a more comprehensive historical perspective. Since the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement in 2014, the image of c...

• International Film Festival Rotterdam Bright Future, 2018 AND BIFF Mecenat Fund

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2022
• 100min

The life of Moonjung, the main character of Greenhouse, is not happy. She suffers from a psychological disorder, her young son is locked up in a juvenile detention center, and since she has no home, she lives in a greenhouse. S...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2022
• 127min

A blind man attempts suicide in an apartment where he lives alone. His attempt falls through when the police suddenly show up and say that they are looking for a woman. The tension grows when the woman sneaks into his apartment to...

• Venice Film Festival In Competition

Open Cinema

• India
• 2022
• 173min

Just as Hollywood’s Top Gun has Tom Cruise, so, too Indian cinema’s Vikram has Kamal Haasan! Both Top Gun and Vikram were first produced in 1986, and in 2022 both stories return with even more spectacular sequels, and starring the...