World Cinema

• United States/Italy
• 2022
• 114min

Monica is the intimate and moving portrait of a woman living in Los Angeles who returns to her small Ohio hometown for the first time in over twenty years to care for her dying mother, Eugenia. While staying in her childhood ho...

• Venice Film Festival In Competition

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2022
• 69min

In the animation Mother Land, the Yates, a nomadic tribe of Tundra, adhere to the traditional lifestyle despite the conciliatory and coercion of development. A little girl, Krisha; her younger brother, Kolya; and her mother and ...

Flash Forward

• New Zealand
• 2022
• 104min

Set in 2007, T?neatua on the East Coast of New Zealand, Muru is based on a real event - a raid by the New Zealand Government′s elite Special Tactics Group on a remote M?ori township as they search for evidence of terrorism. Dur...

• Toronto International Film Festival Contemporary World Cinema

Icons

• France/Chile
• 2022
• 83min

My Imaginary Country opens with cheers of the people for Salvador Allende, but the coup d′etat they support eventually shatters the dreams they had of changes for the better. In October 2019, Chile exploded again. As in The Battle...

• Cannes Film Festival Special Screenings

Special Program in Focus

• Japan/France
• 2022
• 114min

A commercial feature directorial debut for Kawawada Emma, who joined the Bun-Buku production company headed by Kore-eda Hirokazu and has since served as his assistant director. My Small Land follows the story of 17-year- old Sarya...

• Berlin International Film Festival Generation Kplus

Special Program in Focus

• Canada
• 2022
• 81min

A documentary about a city’s history and the director’s personal history, created by the Canadian director Guy Maddin, who was commissioned to make a film about his hometown of Winnipeg. My Winnipeg is an autobiographical film tha...

• Best Canadian Feature Film Award at Toronto International Film Festival

Wide Angle

• Netherlands/Myanmar/Norway
• 2022
• 70min

After the 2021 military coup in Myanmar, members of the pro-democracy movement fear that their lives are in danger. Even if they survived, as many as 200,000 people have been forced to leave their homes and search for freedom e...

• Berlinale Documentary Award at Berlin International Film Festival

Special Screening

• Korea
• 2022
• 46min

Nakdong River is, along with The Street of Sun (1952) and A Bouquet of Thirty Million People (1951), one of the important films made during the Korean War that the Korean Film Archive has rediscovered and made available to the pub...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2022
• 139min

Sohee (Kim Si-eun) gets a job as a field trainee at the customer service center of an Internet company just before her high school graduation. She is excited about getting a job at a large company, but the reality is different ...

• Closing Film at Cannes Film Festival Critics′ Week

A Window on Asian Cinema

• United Kingdom/Syria/France
• 2022
• 104min

The latest film by Soudade Kaadan, whose first film, The Day I Lost My Shadow (2018), won the Lion of the Future award at the Venice International Film Festival. Damascus is ravaged by constant airstrikes, but fourteenyear-old Zei...

• Armani Beauty Audience Award at Venice Film Festival Orizzonti Extra