Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2022
• 112min

On a winter morning on the way to work, Kiyoung finds Gilho sleeping on the wooden bench in front of his house. Gilho is a teenager who has run away from home because he can no longer face the domestic violence he suffers there...

World Cinema

• Poland
• 2022
• 100min

The perfect family vacation on a beautiful island goes wrong. Maja and her husband, their longtime friend and his younger girlfriend, along with their children arrive at Bornholm. Hints of midlife crisis are scattered about at t...

• Europa Cinemas Label Award at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

Special Program in Focus

• Japan
• 2022
• 153min

The second feature-length film by Sugita Kyoshi, released about six years since his debut feature A Song I Remember (2011) drew attention of the film world. Listen to Light is made up of four chapters based on four tanka poems tha...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2022
• 156min

The film starts with a caption that reads: “I began to think about making a documentary.” It is, however, not about making a film. To figure out what it is truly about, it’s better to see what the title implies: the expression “...

Wide Angle

• United States/Canada
• 2022
• 94min

Intrepid scientists and lovers Katia and Maurice Krafft died in a volcanic explosion on the very expedition that brought them together: They sought to unravel the mysteries of volcanoes by capturing the most explosive imagery e...

• Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award for U.S. Documentary at Sundance Film Festival

World Cinema

• Poland/United States/United Kingdom
• 2022
• 114min

Based on the lives of June and Jennifer Gibbons, real-life identical twins who grew up in Wales, part of the only Black family in a small town. The two became known as "the silent twins" because of their refusal to communicate ...

• Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard

Midnight Passion

• Indonesia
• 2022
• 119min

Several years after they managed to save themselves from a terrible incident in which they lost their mother and the youngest sibling, Ian, Rini and her younger siblings, Toni and Bondi, and their father live in flats. They believ...

World Cinema

• France
• 2022
• 114min

The Mountain is the latest work by Thomas Salvador, the director who debuted with Vincent (2014). This time Salvador plays the roles of the lead actor, director, and screenwriter. In a plot that seems to follow up on themes fro...

• SACD Award at Cannes Film Festival Directors′ Fortnight

World Cinema

• France/Belgium
• 2022
• 115min

Bowling Saturne Patricia Mazuy’s follow-up to her successful Paul Sanchez is Back! (2018) offers a unique take on the thriller genre: A police officer, Guillaume, asks his half-brother, Armand, to manage the bowling alley that ...

• Locarno International Film Festival Concorso Internazionale

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2022
• 121min

Wang Mincheol, the director of Garden, Zoological (2018), has returned with Sanctuary. In Garden, Zoological, he observed the zookeepers at the Cheongju Zoo, and this time he follows the activities of those who are turning the ...