Wide Angle

• United States/China
• 2022
• 65min

A filmmaker daughter studying in a foreign country belatedly learns of her mother’s cancer. Her mother has hidden it from her, lest she worry, but the daughter feels upset. The mother has been a doctor for thirty years, and she ...

• 2019 AND BIFF Mecenat Fund

Jiseok

• Japan
• 2022
• 99min

Seven years ago, a high school student was killed by a friend. The parents of the dead girl are now divorced, and the father drowns his anger and sorrow in alcohol. Then one day, the daughter’s murderer files a suit to have her se...

Icons

• 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

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2022
• 107min

Hareesh and Reshimi are a married couple who have moved from a city in Kerala to Delhi. Working at a factory that produces medical gloves, they are preparing to move abroad. One day, to apply for a work visa, Hareesh records Reshi...

• Locarno International Film Festival Concorso Internazionale

Flash Forward

• Italy
• 2022
• 105min

Michele Vannucci returns to some of the same themes of his debut film I Was a Dreamer (2016) with his latest film, Delta. It asks what obstacles exist to keep us from achieving our hopes and dreams. Osso is an activist who tries...

• Locarno International Film Festival Piazza Grande

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.

Open Cinema

• France
• 2022
• 100min

A single mother and a married man fall in love one day. They have a mutual agreement: no jealousy, no expectation for future. With Juliette Greco’s song La javanaise playing as a background music, love goes on in Paris as time pas...

• Cannes Film Festival in Cannes Premiere

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2022
• 4min

A night owl sculptor and an early riser delivery man are neighbors divided by a thin wall. Their conflict over noise levels escalates into a war, in which each ends up trashing his own apartment, leading to an unexpected end. An...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2022
• 112min

Dream Palace depicts the conflict between people who hold onto an apartment building. Hyejung (Kim Sunyoung) has lost her husband in an industrial accident and adds the settlement money to move into the new apartment called Dre...

Wide Angle

• China
• 2022
• 26min

An alcoholic who once worked as a technician spends every day drinking. When he discovers he has late-stage cancer he decides to lay everything down for his son.