New Currents

• Malaysia
• 2022
• 104min

Three students from Jing Mu Girls’ Middle School go missing and turn up dead. Xiao Tong, a special education student with speech impairment, feels like someone is watching her. During the rehearsal for the school’s foundation day ...

Special Program in Focus

• United States
• 2022
• 103min

In the first caption, Kirsten Johnson asks the audience to view the footage she filmed for other directors during her twenty-five-year career as a cinematographer as her own memoir. Fragments of tragic spaces in Bosnia, Yemen, Afg...

Icons

• France
• 2022
• 117min

Claire Denis, won both the Silver Bear for Best Director at Berlin and the Palme d′Or at Cannes this year for Both Sides of the Blade, her remarkable new feature. Denis worked with novelist Christine Angot in her adaptation of thi...

• Silver Bear for Best Director at Berlin International Film Festival

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2022
• 16min

Director Ahn, actor Lee, and screenwriter Baek roams about Gunsan. After sunset, they read the script for Carrier Woman together. Their documentary-like record of their travels during the day becomes dreamy with the script for C...

On Screen

• Korea
• 2022
• 133min

What if Miike Takashi, well-known with his unique imagination and visualization, makes a series of drama based on a Korean webtoon? Adapting Shin Dae-sung’s webtoon, Connect depicts a mysterious story that occurs when Dong-soo (Ju...

World Cinema

• Austria/Luxembourg/Germany/France
• 2022
• 114min

Marie Kreutzer, who has been a prolific filmmaker in the past few years, has returned with a new feature that is a period drama. Inserting contemporary ballad music and boldly drawing on early forms of film, she focuses on the ...

• Best Performance Award at Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard

World Cinema

• Belgium/France/Netherlands
• 2022
• 104min

Since Lukas Dhont introduced a young transgender dancer’s portrait with Girl (2018), this talented director has continued to explore the complexities of sexual identity and adolescence. Two thirteen-year-old boys, Leo and Remi, ...

• Grand Prize of the Festival at Cannes Film Festival

World Cinema

• Ukraine/Turkiye
• 2022
• 101min

2014 Donbas, east of Ukraine. A civilian airplane is shot down by “mistake.” Irka’s husband and her brother have endless quarrels, and pro-Russian Separatist neighbors are no longer friends nor foes. Despite this, Irka, who is ...

• Directing Award for World Cinema Dramatic at Sundance Film Festival

World Cinema

• Italy/Belgium
• 2022
• 106min

With Chiara, director Susanna Nicchiarelli presents a feminist period drama full of humor and liveliness. We know St. Frances of Assissi, the most gentle and humble Italian saint, but we don′t know about Chiara, a girl who foll...

• Venice Film Festival In Competition

Open Cinema

• Japan
• 2022
• 134min

Kingdom(2019) was a successful film based on Hara Yasuhisa’s manga series that began publication in 2006. The manga series was also adapted into a popular TV series. Its sequel, Kingdom 2, was also a box-office hit in Japan. Kingd...