World Cinema

• Ukraine/Turkiye
• 2022
• 101min

2014 Donbas, east of Ukraine. A civilian airplane is shot down by “mistake.” Irka’s husband and her brother have endless quarrels, and pro-Russian Separatist neighbors are no longer friends nor foes. Despite this, Irka, who is ...

• Directing Award for World Cinema Dramatic at Sundance Film Festival

Flash Forward

• Colombia/France
• 2022
• 88min

Eliu and his accomplice arrive at a juvenile detention center/prison camp set deep in the jungle. The young delinquents, who acknowledge themselves as “a junkie, a conman, a thief, a murderer” are shackled together and forced t...

• Grand Prize at Cannes Film Festival Critics′ Week

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2022
• 13min

After Jeonghyun helps clean the bathhouse run by her friend Hosu’s family, they take a bath together. Trivial conversations, vague concerns, and daunting future. Their day flows by like water. The director has an unusual talent ...

Wide Angle

• Korea/Hong Kong, China
• 2022
• 150min

Lash is the third feature film by director Jung Yoon-suk, who received attention at home and abroad with Non-fiction Diary and Bamseom Pirates Seoul Inferno. An international project that spans across Korea, China, and Japan, L...

• 2017 AND BIFF Mecenat Fund

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2022
• 20min

Jiho starts delivery work with a second-hand bike she spent much to buy. One night, a small delivery mistake gets her running about, and the more she works the poorer she gets. Familiar situations and likely events unfold at a t...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2022
• 92min

Hyun Soonjik is ninety-six years old. She is the oldest living resident in Jeju Island. She lives in a small village in Seogwipo-si. A natural diver with good skills, she became a high rank Haenyeo at an early age and has led an...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2022
• 160min

Forty-year-old Leila is busy taking care of her parents and four brothers. The men of her family work hard, but none can escape poverty. Despite their poor circumstances, their father still views himself as the patriarch of the cl...

• FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes Film Festival

Special Program in Focus

• France/United States/United Kingdom
• 2022
• 93min

A monumental documentary filmed from an anthropologist’s perspective by directors Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor of the Harvard University’s Sensory Ethnography Lab. Two directors board a trawler with twelve GoPro camer...

• FIPRESCI Prize at Locarno International Film Festival

Jiseok

• Iran
• 2022
• 80min

One day during the Covid pandemic, when classes are being held online, the teacher who is concerned about the students who have not attended the online classes decides to visit them. Also the mother of a four-yearold, she buckles ...

Wide Angle

• Korea/Germany
• 2022
• 80min

Lee Soohyun and Kim In-sun are a couple in their seventies who have spent half of their lives together. They moved to Germany when they were younger and worked as nurses before they fell in love with each other at a summer camp...