A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kazakhstan
• 2021
• 82min

Tolik, a bread delivery man, lives with his pregnant wife Altynai, his two daughters? Saule who is about to enter college and her younger sister? and a somewhat selfish father. The family is already drowning in debt. Meanwhile, Sa...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2021
• 113min

Haeyoung (Kim Hyeyoon) is a hopeless girl. She has tattoos all over her arms. She uses vulgar language, and is even violent. She is a terrible troublemaker. She does not have a mother and lives with her father (Park Hyukkwon), who...

• 2014 ACF Script Development Fund

New Currents

• Kazakhstan
• 2021
• 113min

Anar marries Marat and lives with him and his son Adil. Pregnant Anar requires care, as she is anemic and at a high risk of miscarriage. When Marat hastens their move to the countryside, Anar finds herself in unfamiliar surroundin...

World Cinema

• Poland
• 2021
• 122min

Teenager Adam lives with his mother in Poland, and longs for his father who’s gone missing following World War II. When the secret police arrive and torment his mother, he flees into a theater screening Godard’s Contempt (1963) an...

World Cinema

• France
• 2021
• 100min

A SADC Prize winner at the 74th Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Magnetic Beats is the story about the fate of two brothers living in the French countryside during the early ’80s. Both are deep into the New Wave music, bearing with the...

• SACD award in Cannes′ Directors′ Fortnight

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia/Singapore/Germany
• 2021
• 115min

Ajo, a gangster who is not afraid of death, has a secret he does not want to reveal to anyone: He is impotent. This symptom becomes a source of anger and eventually triggers his violence towards everyone around him. He runs into a...

• Golden Leopard at Locarno International Film Festival, 2016 APM Project

World Cinema

• France
• 2021
• 103min

Ahmed, a French-Algerian teen, has grown up in the suburbs of Paris. One day, he sees Farah, a Tunisian girl who just transferred to his school, and is immediately smitten. In a class where the two study together, he discovers a c...

• Closing Film at Venice International Film Festival Critics′ Week

World Cinema

• Norway
• 2021
• 128min

Meet Julie. On the verge of thirty, she has gone through a succession of boyfriends, shifting her professions from medicine to psychology to photography to writing along the way. Commitment is an issue for her, and she is constant...

• Best Actress Award at Cannes Film Festival

Wide Angle

• China
• 2021
• 28min

A middle-aged Buddhist monk in a small temple suffers from increasing tooth pain. To complicate matters, he must endure the construction noise of the development that will eventually raze the temple. (PARK Sungho)

Wide Angle

• Brazil/France/Germany
• 2021
• 98min

January 2019, filmmaker Karim Ainouz crosses the Mediterranean on a ferry boat and embarks on a journey to his father′s homeland, high up in the Atlas Mountains of Algeria. He is not sure of what he will do or find, but picks up h...

• Cannes Film Festival in Special Screening