New Currents

• Korea
• 2021
• 140min

Sookyung lives with her daughter Yijung. They don′t quite get along, though. Sookyung is too hot tempered, while Yijung is slow and passive. After having a fight one day, Sookyung runs over Yijung, who thinks she did it on purpose...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2021
• 27min

Nine-year-old Dojin often spends time alone at home. One day he heads to the backyard to make an anthill and witnesses a murder. He brings home the bloodied brick used as murder weapon. School violence, bullying, and murder seen ...

World Cinema

• Austria/Germany
• 2021
• 117min

Great Freedom asks if love and freedom can exist in incarceration. It follows a journey of a man imprisoned for nearly twenty-years (from 1945 to 1969) for being a homosexual. It is a political movie that deals with the oppression...

• Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2021
• 29min

Injeong, a promising contract designer with only a high school diploma, ends up making poor decisions out of inferiority complex about her academic background. On one unlucky day, a strangely unpleasant smell follows her all day. ...

World Cinema

• Spain
• 2021
• 86min

Mohamed is a Moroccan young immigrant looking for a job in Spain. He becomes the assistant of Valero, a plumber, but soon tensions develop between the calm and silent Mohamed and the hot-tempered Valero, who dislikes foreigners. M...

• Best Actor Award in Locarno Film Festival

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan/China
• 2021
• 98min

Noh is a classical Japanese dance-drama. INU-OH is a film about a real life master Noh dancer from the 14th century. In this film, real people and fictional histories converge with traditional Japanese Noh and modern music, in whi...

• Venice International Film Festival Orrizzonti

Wide Angle

• China/United Kingdom
• 2021
• 21min

During the spring break, Qizhe returns to his hometown to relax, but finds himself distracted by his mother’s constant lecturing. Eventually his sexual identity is discovered, a secret that keeps him from being an otherwise perfec...

Special Program in Focus

• Korea
• 2021
• 112min

Five friends who graduated from a vocational school in Incheon have their own burdens. While Hae-joo, Tae-hee, and Chinese-Korean twins Bi-ryu and Ohn-jo lead their lives as an employee at a brokerage firm, an employee at her pare...

• KNF Award at International Film Festival Rotterdam

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2021
• 18min

Eunsuk is a department store janitor whose only joy in life is listening to classical music in the innermost bathroom stall at work. To Eunsuk, who makes a strained move to a good school district for her daughter, her life is alwa...

Icons

• France
• 2021
• 113min

Everything Went Fine, Francois Ozon’s adaptation of an autobiographical work by Emmanuele Bernheim, is the latest in a series of mature works presented that nonetheless exhibits the same youthful sensibility that distinguished Ozo...

• Cannes Film Festival in Competition