Special Program in Focus

• India
• 2021
• 113min

Left alone in the circus, Krishna arrives at the city of Bombay and lives with a gang of street children. On the other side of India′s leading tourist destination of Bombay lie the poverty-stricken reality of street children, brot...

• Camera d′Or at Cannes Film Festival

Wide Angle

• Kyrgyzstan
• 2021
• 19min

Orozbek, a joyful boy who loves to draw, lives with his grandmother in a remote village deep in the snowy mountains. He has to walk a long distance to school, and one day the stream washes over its banks, blocking his way. (PARK S...

Special Program in Focus

• Indonesia/France/Malaysia/Thailand
• 2021
• 94min

A woman with a sword rides on a horse through the sandy desert. In her hand is the head of a man she beheaded. Director Mouly Surya twists the most masculine genre and sets it against the backdrop of the beautiful landscape of Sum...

• Cannes Film Festival Directors′ Fortnight, 2015 APM Project

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2021
• 115min

Although only one digit in the year has changed, it still feels as though the world has changed. So much so that there is a kind of excitement in the expression ′New Year.′ The film New Year Blues depicts the stories of four coupl...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2021
• 93min

Lucknow, northern India, in 1962. In the upper-class family of a high-ranking police officer, Shankar is an indispensable servant. To Anjana who attends a Catholic school and her little brother Bhaiya, Shankar is a nanny, a cook, ...

• Locarno International Film Festival in Filmmakers of the present Competition

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2021
• 92min

This film is a documentary that talks about free yet strong love. It is a story of people who are, with sad history in their minds, earnestly trying to preserve the land of Jeju Island that is being destroyed by numerous developme...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2021
• 87min

A teenage girl who appears on a TV show as an idol singer′s fan calls herself a ′seongdeok′ (successful fan), because her idol appeared on the same program. Years later, the same idol singer is arrested on charges of gang rape and...

World Cinema

• France
• 2021
• 100min

Nora heads to work before dawn. Life is not easy for her, despite her gentle smile, selfless consideration, and sincere attitude. Her son, daughter, grandson, and granddaughter rely on Nora to the point of becoming like a burden. ...

• Ensemble prize at Cannes Film Festival

New Currents

• Korea
• 2021
• 102min

Seire is the period of twenty-one days in which people are supposed to take utmost care in their behaviors and strangers are not allowed to visit to protect a newborn baby from bad luck. The film Seire takes an idea from this folk...

World Cinema

• Switzerland
• 2021
• 99min

With The Girl and the Spider, the Zurcher brothers have chosen to build on themes and elements from their previous works. Characters go back and forth between narrow rooms. Sound hovers like a fog over the sets. Children, cats, an...

• Best Director Encounters at Berlin International Film Festival