World Cinema

• France
• 2021
• 88min

Alice is a forensic scientist who invented a revolutionary technique in the field of restoring damaged corpses. She visits South Korea to attend a conference and receives a request from the Korean police to perform an autopsy on a...

World Cinema

• Romania/Luxembourg/Czech Republic/Croatia
• 2021
• 106min

Radu Jude is one of the most prominent figures in Romanian cinema, and the latest addition to his esteemed filmography is Bad Luck Banging and Loony Porn, winner of the 2021 Berlinale Golden Bear. True to its provocative and sardo...

• Golden Bear at Berlin International Film Festival

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2021
• 148min

In 1996, a woman from rural Vietnam, Van Tue, immigrates to marry a Taiwanese man in search of a better life. Her husband earns a living as a construction worker. Her mother-in-law refuses to trust her. Van Tue wants to open a sma...

Special Program in Focus

• China
• 2021
• 110min

From Uniform (2003) and Night Train (2007) to Black Coal, Thin Ice, Diao Yinan has drawn portraits of pitiable characters flung in front of the contradictions of life under the guise of crime thrillers. The reason we might see his...

• Golden Bear at Berlin International Film Festival

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2021
• 73min

Not One and Not Two - a Buddhist belief that means that while individuals are not the same, they are also not different, either. At the same time, this is a question the film Not One and Not Two asks. The first episode of the film...

Open Cinema

• France/Belgium/Netherlands
• 2021
• 131min

What if Paul Verhoeven, the director of Basic Instinct (1992), Showgirls (1995), Starship Troopers (1997), Black Book (2006), and Elle (2016), adapts the novel Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy (1987), ...

• Cannes Film Festival In Competition

Icons

• France/Belgium/Germany/Sweden/Mexico
• 2021
• 113min

This film begins with an American couple who arrives on Faro, a small island in Sweden where the legendary director Ingmar Bergman was inspired to build a house and shoot numerous masterpieces. Filmmakers Chris (Vicky Krieps) and ...

• Cannes Film Festival In Competition

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2021
• 135min

Nine years since the Tohoku earthquake, starved corpses with tied hands and feet are found in Miyagi Prefecture. The victims are a civil servant in charge of health and welfare and a local government official. They were men of goo...

New Currents

• Indonesia
• 2021
• 130min

Sur, a freshman, volunteers as a web designer for a university theatre group. Their premiere is successful, and she is invited to a party. She attends the party and is caught up in the exciting music and a welcoming atmosphere, bu...

World Cinema

• Russia/Estonia/France
• 2021
• 127min

Set in the era of Stalin′s Great Purge, this fast-paced thriller centers around a Soviet captain admired by his peers and commanders alike. But soon the ruthless leader gets a taste of his own medicine: Captain Volkonogov is hunte...

• Venice International Film Festival In Competition