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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

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2022
• 125min

Oh Minwook’s Eternal Brightness, adapted from Jo Gapsang’s novel Eye of the Night, narrates the past and the present lives of the characters who have lived through the contemporary history of Korea, from the Korean War in the 1...

Open Cinema

• Japan
• 2022
• 122min

An adaptation of Ichijo Misaki’s best-selling romance novel that also gained popularity in Korea, this film tells the story of a girl who loses all her memory of the previous day when she wakes up in the morning and a boy who fall...

Open Cinema

• United States
• 2022
• 140min

The life of aging Chinese immigrant Evelyn Wang is crashing down around her: The laundromat she runs is under heavy scrutiny from the IRS and, her husband Waymond is secretly filing for divorce. And all the while she is trying des...

Special Program in Focus

• Cambodia/France
• 2022
• 98min

A theater for animals opens, and the history of mankind unfolds across the screen. What will the animals learn from watching the history of human tragedies, such as Hitler’s brutal reign, the Vietnam War, atomic bombs, Nazi concen...

• Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution at Berlin International Film Festival

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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

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• Hong Kong, China
• 2022
• 104min

Rafael, a son of a wealthy family, gets into a car accident while returning home after shopping to prepare for a feast. Frightened, he tries to cover up the case. The victim dies, leaving his poor family empty handed while the inv...

Wide Angle

• United States/Canada
• 2022
• 94min

Intrepid scientists and lovers Katia and Maurice Krafft died in a volcanic explosion on the very expedition that brought them together: They sought to unravel the mysteries of volcanoes by capturing the most explosive imagery e...

• Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award for U.S. Documentary at Sundance Film Festival

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2022
• 28min

Upon learning that today may be the grandfather’s last day, the mother and daughter bring condolence flowers to the hospital. Their relatives come as well. But the flowers arrive before the grandfather’s death, and family member...

World Cinema

• United Kingdom/Hungary
• 2022
• 111min

Set at an institute devoted to culinary and alimentary performance, a collective finds itself embroiled in power struggles, artistic vendettas, and gastrointestinal disorders. Flux Gourmet is an experimental feature filled with ...

• Berlin International Film Festival Encounters