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• France
• 2021
• 142min

With his latest feature, Vortex, Gaspar Noe returns to the unusual subject material that marked his earlier works. An elderly couple struggles to go about their daily lives in Paris. The husband, a movie director (played by famed ...

• Cannes Film Festival in Cannes Premiere

Wide Angle

• United States
• 2021
• 117min

In 1969, during the same summer as Woodstock, a different music festival took place one hundred miles away. More than 300,000 people attended the summer concert series known as the Harlem Cultural Festival. Although the event was ...

• Grand Jury Prize, Audience Award: U.S. Documentary at Sundanve Film Festival

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2021
• 115min

Sophie′s world shows the four days in the life of Sophie during her visit at Sooyoung and Jonggu′s house. It portrays, in a plain tone, the struggles of Sooyoung and Jonggu, who are in love with each other, and the episodes Sophie...

New Currents

• Iran
• 2021
• 77min

Asteroid follows Ebrahim, a poor boy who works all day to care for his mother and younger siblings, and discovers a saintly aura in his efforts. A film that joins a long line of outstanding Iranian films about children, alongside ...

Wide Angle

• India
• 2021
• 23min

Vitthal, a sixteen-year-old boy, earns money to support his poor family in the countryside by taking care of cows. He wants to visit his dying mother, but his cold-hearted employer will fire him as soon as he leaves. (PARK Sungho)

World Cinema

• United Kingdom
• 2021
• 120min

Julie is a young film student living in London. She comes from a privileged background and wants to make a film about a young boy and his mother in a much poorer part of the city. Between script pitches and camera setups, Julie ho...

• World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic at Sundance Film Festival

World Cinema

• United Kingdom
• 2021
• 107min

In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative older man, Julie begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction....

• Cannes Film Festival Directors′ Fortnight

Special Program in Focus

• Japan
• 2021
• 95min

Suzaku is an elegy to the gradual dissolution of a family and life in a remote timber village. When the economic downturn hits a small mountain village, many people leave, and the construction of the train tunnel that connects th...

• Camera d′Or at Cannes Film Festival

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Azerbaijan/France/Germany
• 2021
• 86min

What was life like in a communist collective farm during World War II? Sughra’s Sons is a film about a historical tragedy that took place in a small village. The head of the farm is a man with unchecked power who decides on ration...

World Cinema

• Italy/France/Slovenia
• 2021
• 89min

In 1990, Agatha, a young woman living in an island village in Italy, gives birth to a stillborn baby. Agatha cannot accept that her child will be condemned to exist in forever, and thus, sets out alone in search of a mysterious sa...

• Cannes Film Festival Critics′ Week