A Window on Asian Cinema

• Tajikistan
• 2022
• 118min

In 1993. Tajikistan, Kahhor pins all of his hopes on his second son, who studies vocal music in Moscow. Sending money to him and listening to him singing over the phone is his joy in life. Kahhor works at a suburban factory with M...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2022
• 22min

The daily life of a gay couple living together in Tehran is interrupted by an invisible third presence?the spirit of the ex-boyfriend who died six years ago who has returned and wants to live with them.

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• Korea
• 2022
• 138min

Helmer Park Chan-wook’s eleventh feature film, Decision to Leave, follows a detective Hae-jun (Park Hae-il) and a prime suspect Seo-rae (Tang Wei) who is investigated for murdering her husband. Suffering from insomnia, Hae-jun mon...

• Best Director Award at Cannes Film Festival

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2022
• 13min

After Jeonghyun helps clean the bathhouse run by her friend Hosu’s family, they take a bath together. Trivial conversations, vague concerns, and daunting future. Their day flows by like water. The director has an unusual talent ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong, China
• 2022
• 113min

On the evening of the family’s traditional winter solstice dinner, Chun and Ling, their daughter Ki and son Yeung, and Ling’s brother Ming gather at Ling’s mother’s house. Tired of Chun’s incompetence, losing his job when they’re ...

Special Program in Focus

• Hong Kong, China
• 2022
• 99min

Hong Kong in 1962. Chow Mo-wan, a journalist, and Su Li-zhen, a secretary for a shipping company, move into adjoining apartments. Their spouses are often away on business trips, and the two sense each other’s loneliness through ch...

• Best Actor Award, Technical Grand Prize at Cannes Film Festival

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• United States
• 2022
• 136min

Jack Grady is a college professor who specializes in Hitler studies. He lives with his wife, Babette, and their four children. One day, his life turns upsidedown when a train hit by a truck casts chemical toxic waste all over his ...

• Opening Film at Venice Film Festival

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2022
• 153min

Jay, a promising young writer, is about to publish her new book. Geonwoo, Jay′s roommate and lover, works as an English instructor at a private institute and silently assists Jay. Both of them care about each other and are happ...

• 2022 ACF Post-Production Fund

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• Poland/Italy
• 2022
• 88min

Jerzy Skolimowski pays a wondrous homage to Robert Bresson’s Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) with his latest film EO. The eponymous hero (named after the onomatopoeic braying sound “Hee-haw” a la Eeyore from Winnie-the-Pooh) is “rescue...

• Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival

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• United States
• 2022
• 85min

In the 1960s and 1970s, people who couldn’t find hope in South Korea left for the United States in the hope of finding the American Dream. In a country where they didn’t speak the language, people opened liquor shops and formed...