A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kyrgyzstan
• 2022
• 82min

Damir is being threatened in an abandoned factory. Loan sharks even go to his home, where his pregnant wife, Cholpon, and their young daughter are. The loan sharks harass the family, even to the point of writing “home for sale” on...

Flash Forward

• Switzerland
• 2022
• 93min

When the world faces a new century, images of a pastoral village in Southern Switzerland unfold, one by one. In Thunder, however, beautiful nature is not something to appreciate visually. This film talks about how a closed soci...

• Toronto International Film Festival Platform

New Currents

• Japan
• 2022
• 126min

Tomiko, a middle-aged woman, waits patiently for her husband, who disappeared thirty years ago, to return. She lives alone in a declining fishing village, and continues to search tirelessly for her husband. One day she meets Nami,...

Wide Angle

• Korea/United States
• 2022
• 86min

In 1973, Chol Soo Lee was arrested as a suspect in a murder case in San Francisco’s Chinatown and sentenced to life in prison. It was the result of false testimonies by white witnesses who had difficulty telling Asian faces apa...

• Sundance Film Festival U.S. Documentary Competition

Wide Angle

• Korea/Canada
• 2022
• 82min

Koreans become aware of the Korean War from the very early childhood, but their levels of awareness vary greatly: Those who have personally experienced the war have opinions that inevitably differ from those who have only read ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2022
• 28min

Yeo-young, an aspiring writer, travels to Haenam to write. She stays at a friend’s house, and peaceful days continue with her taking walks, weeding the yard, and drinking with her friend. But she doesn’t write. A travelogue with...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• United Kingdom/Syria/France
• 2022
• 104min

The latest film by Soudade Kaadan, whose first film, The Day I Lost My Shadow (2018), won the Lion of the Future award at the Venice International Film Festival. Damascus is ravaged by constant airstrikes, but fourteenyear-old Zei...

• Armani Beauty Audience Award at Venice Film Festival Orizzonti Extra

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2022
• 87min

Zahra, a huge football fan from Tehran, faces a repeated ordeal. All she did was to go to the stadium to watch a football game she loves. Since 1981, Iran has banned women from the stadiums. For Zahra who is full of energy and ...

Wide Angle

• India
• 2022
• 4min

A letter to herself from a girl who finds herself in a chaotic world. An inner journey mixed with various emotions is expressed through animation.

Wide Angle

• United States/China
• 2022
• 65min

A filmmaker daughter studying in a foreign country belatedly learns of her mother’s cancer. Her mother has hidden it from her, lest she worry, but the daughter feels upset. The mother has been a doctor for thirty years, and she ...

• 2019 AND BIFF Mecenat Fund