On Screen

• Denmark
• 2022
• 125min

It took twenty-five years for the supernatural drama The Kingdom to reach its third and final season. Even so newer fans of Lars von Trier should not be intimidated, because while The Kingdom Exodus is “heavily influenced” by its ...

• Venice Film Festival Out of Competition

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2022
• 25min

An ordinary office worker, Kyuho, faces a dilemma when a famous writer asks him an embarrassing and uncomfortable question during an interview. He now has to find out why an old friend despises him. A film of a tense conversatio...

Special Program in Focus

• Japan/France
• 2022
• 89min

A joint project that came together through an encounter between Igarashi Kohei and Damien Manivel at the 2014 Locarno International Film Festival. Set in Hirosakishi, Aomori Prefecture, The Night I Swam follows a boy’s journey thr...

• Venice Film Festival Orizzonti

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• Korea
• 2022
• 98min

Director Byungsoo (Kwon Haehyo) visits the building of interior designer Haeok (Lee Hyeyoung) with his daughter Jungsoo (Park Miso). Byungsoo and Jungsoo climb up the cramped and steep stairs and tour the space with Haeok. While B...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2022
• 140min

After a long lockdown brought on by the pandemic, the city is astir with ambulances and people mourning. People’s lives are in jeopardy due to hardship and anxiety. Jaan, who runs a restaurant and a bakery and also works in civil ...

• Toronto International Film Festival Platform

Wide Angle

• Azerbaijan
• 2022
• 23min

A boy is found lying bleeding in an artist′s studio. A policeman arrives to question the artist while as reality is gradually distorted.

Special Program in Focus

• Germany/Lithuania/Netherlands
• 2022
• 110min

A found footage film about World War II by Ukrainian master filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa, THE NATURAL HISTORY OF DESTRUCTION, was inspired by W.G. Sebald’s book of the same name. The film focuses on the Allied bombing of Germany in W...

• Cannes Film Festival Special Screenings

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• Spain/France/Germany/Portugal
• 2022
• 166min

Director of The Death of Louis XIV (2016) and Liberte (2019), Albert Serra explores a political power game in an island in French Polynesia in his latest film Pacifiction. A chaotic rumor that the nuclear weapons test will resume ...

• Cannes Film Festival Competition

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• Russia/Belgium/Estonia
• 2022
• 79min

Despite its title, Alexander Sokurov’s Fairytale is not the kind of fairy tale for children that we normally think of. It is a horror film and a political film in which monsters from the twentieth century, including Hitler, Mussol...

• Locarno International Film Festival Concorso Internazionale

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2022
• 130min

Inmok’s appearance is somewhat curious. Around his neck, covered in dirt, he wears a mysterious medal. Perhaps the medal is the last piece of his glorious past remaining in him. When he finds himself forcibly evicted from his ho...