A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kyrgyzstan
• 2022
• 91min

Asan’s family moves to a quiet rural village, where children play by lighting a fire under a rock and roasting bird eggs using twigs and snack on them. Asan soon befriends the village children Dastan and Bayel. Bayel, who lives wi...

Wide Angle

• France/Kingdom of Eswatini/Iran/Lebanon
• 2022
• 97min

Director Mitra Farahani recorded the correspondence between French- Swiss director Jean-Luc Godard and Iranian writer and director Ebrahim Golestan. The 91-year-old director lives in Rolle, Switzerland and the 100-year-old Iran...

• Special Jury Prize at Berlin International Film Festival Encounters

World Cinema

• France/Belgium
• 2022
• 83min

Philippe Faucon’s latest film Harkis deals with an issue that is taboo both in France and Algeria: the Algerians who fought in the French Army during the Algerian War. This group of armed people with no military titles were pro...

• Cannes Film Festival Directors′ Fortnight

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• United States
• 2022
• 115min

Queens, New York. The 1980s. twelve-year-old Paul Graff is growing up in a warm and rowdy family that includes his grandfather, who encourages his artistic aspirations. His best friend is John Crocker, an African-American boy. The...

• Cannes Film Festival Competition

New Currents

• Singapore/Korea
• 2022
• 90min

A Singaporean auntie (“ajoomma” in Korean language) lives alone with her estranged son. Her only pleasure in life is to watch Korean TV series, clumsily imitating the dialogues. She and her son book a tour in Korea for holidays, b...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2022
• 107min

Hareesh and Reshimi are a married couple who have moved from a city in Kerala to Delhi. Working at a factory that produces medical gloves, they are preparing to move abroad. One day, to apply for a work visa, Hareesh records Reshi...

• Locarno International Film Festival Concorso Internazionale

World Cinema

• Spain/Italy
• 2022
• 121min

Alcarras is the latest feature by Spanish film director Carla Simon, whose semi-autobiographical film, Summer 1993 (2018), won the Best First Feature Award at the Berlin International Film Festival. In Alcarras a family that has...

• Golden Bear at Berlin International Film Festival

Special Program in Focus

• Hong Kong, China
• 2022
• 85min

Two underground gangs clash over the leadership of the casino business in Macao. Tony Leung plays a corrupt cop, Sam, who is in league with the gangs. Amidst doubts, conspiracies, trades, and secrets, he has the face of a cold ass...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2022
• 113min

B for Busy is a comedy set in Shanghai about three middle-aged divorcees and a divorce, on a journey to find love. Mr. B, an art teacher is interested in Ms. Li, who works in advertising, but Li, who lives with her mother and a yo...

World Cinema

• United Kingdom/United States
• 2022
• 96min

Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories, both real and imagined, fill the gaps between the past and the present as she tries to reconcile the ...

• French Touch Prize at Cannes Film Festival Critics′ Week