New Currents

• Thailand
• 2022
• 190min

Ay is a mixed race child of a Thai mother and a white man. As she is much taller than others and has brown hair instead of black, she looks distinguished by appearance. She majors in fashion in Bangkok to contribute to the family ...

Wide Angle

• Hong Kong, China/Taiwan/Japan
• 2022
• 97min

Blue Island is a moving documentary that proposes to look back at Hong Kong’s unfinished democratic revolution from a more comprehensive historical perspective. Since the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement in 2014, the image of c...

• International Film Festival Rotterdam Bright Future, 2018 AND BIFF Mecenat Fund

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• Italy/United States
• 2022
• 130min

Luca Guadagnino, the director of Call Me By Your Name, continues his exploration of various forms of love in Bones and All, a road movie about two wounded teenagers traveling across the United States in the 1980s. When her father ...

• Silver Lion for Best Director at Venice Film Festival

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• 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

World Cinema

• Sweden/France/Finland
• 2022
• 126min

It is election season for the Grand Imam (the highest authority of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence) and the politicians in Cairo want to make sure that their chosen candidate is elected. Their new pawn in this power game is Adam, th...

• Best Screenplay Award at Cannes Film Festival

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• Korea
• 2022
• 130min

The story of a family produced by Kore-eda Hirokazu has taken a path of transition and expansion. In Broker, he explores the possibilities of an alternative family. Single mother Soyoung (Lee Ji Eun) leaves her baby, Woosung, in a...

• Best Actor Award at Cannes Film Festival

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2022
• 120min

Propelled by the pulsing beats of Toronto’s early hip hop scene, Brother is the story of Francis and Michael, sons of Caribbean immigrants, who are maturing into young men in a housing project called The Park. The brothers’ bri...

• Toronto International Film Festival Special Presentations

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• France
• 2022
• 111min

The family members in the film, from grandparents to grandsons, call each other with their first names and give the impression that they each have strong self-identities. Especially two siblings, the eldest daughter Alice who is a...

• Cannes Film Festival Competition

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...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2022
• 19min

Ji-hun often tastes blood because of his unusually sharp canines. He lives with his obsessively caring mother and often thinks of his close friend Ju-seong. A teenage boy’s identity crisis and the mother’s oppression have been b...