Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2021
• 137min

Space Sweepers was one of the most anticipated Korean films in the first half of 2021. Director Jo Sung-hee creates a unique fantasy while following some of the SF genre rules, and in so doing, introduces his own unique take on re...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand/France/Singapore/Netherlands
• 2021
• 118min

Director Jakrawal Nilthamrong’s Anatomy of Time overlays a woman’s sacrifice on modern history, alternately portrays the young and the old age of a woman named Maem. In the 1960s, the young Maem was a charming young lady who was b...

• Venice International Film Festival Orrizzonti, 2018 APM Project

New Currents

• India
• 2021
• 125min

At 6 am on June 21, a doctor in the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic meets a woman clad in a protective suit during his morning jog. After ignoring the woman’s pleas to see a patient at her house, he receives a blow to the head...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2021
• 70min

As someone once said, the reason there aren’t films about writers is because there would be nothing to see. Who would want to watch someone sit at the desk and move his fingers all night? Yet Poets’ Window captures precisely that ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iraq/Germany/Qatar/Kurdistan
• 2021
• 89min

Kurdish director Shawkat Amin Korki won the New Currents Award at BIFF with his film Kick Off (2009). His latest work The Exam, which comes after a long hiatus since Memories on Stone (2014), was invited to compete at the Karlovy ...

• FIPRESCI Award at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, 2018 APM Project

Icons

• Italy
• 2021
• 136min

Paolo Sorrentino’s latest film The Hand of God, reminiscent of Federico Fellini’s Amarcord (1973), is distinctly different from his previous works. The rumor that the legendary soccer player Diego Maradona will transfer to SSC Nap...

• Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize, Best Young Actor at Venice International Film Festival

New Currents

• Japan/Korea
• 2021
• 124min

The second film by Katayama Shinzo, who served as an assistant director for Bong Joon Ho in Tokyo! (2008) and Mother (2009), Missing is a thriller that carries a heavy resonance. After his business fails, the father, who used to r...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2021
• 16min

Young siblings Juhee and Seongjun run errands for their mother. Their short journey from the stationery store to the supermarket and the hardware store gradually gathers a chill. A strange list of items to purchase, the bickering ...

Special Program in Focus

• Hong Kong, China
• 2021
• 118min

Roger, a successful film producer, is simply dressed but has a fastidious taste, thanks to Ah Tao, who has been a housekeeper for his family for over 60 years. To Roger and his siblings, she is akin to a stepmother. When Ah Tao su...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2021
• 114min

Disaster reveals the society′s hidden face. It is, therefore, an effective device to show social problems with its story where characters must run for survival. Sinkhole shows where Korean disaster movies are currently situated. D...