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• Mexico/France/Sweden
• 2021
• 83min

Auteur Michel Franco does a 180 with his latest film Sundown, a cold-eyed stare at existential crisis starring Tim Roth and Charlotte Gainsbourg. The two look like a couple on a peaceful and luxurious vacation with their kids at a...

• Venice International Film Festival in Competition

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong, China/France
• 2021
• 179min

Qiu Fu, a leading actor in Sichuan opera who began his stage career at age seven and has been an actor for over 40 years, dies and meets two underworld officials. He refuses to drink the liquor of oblivion, so until he departs for...

• Jury Prize at Locarno International Film Festival

Gala Presentation

• France
• 2021
• 140min

Leos Carax, who has directed Boy Meets Girl (1984), Bad Blood (1986), and Holy Motors (2012), continues to reinterpret classic films as well as to explore potential of new ones. Annette, which was completed through an encounter be...

• Best Director Award at Cannes Film Festival

Wide Angle

• Hong Kong, China/France/Netherlands
• 2021
• 97min

As a radioactivity meter beeps in the background, we travel to the most devastating place on our planet. Before the journey, the hellish spectacle of an atomic bombing is presented as a guide video. Is this a sci-fi film depicting...

• Cannes Film Festival in Special Screening

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• Israel/France/Germany
• 2021
• 110min

Ahed′s Knee is the latest film by Nadav Lapid, whose films often make use of rough and direct techniques in scenes that require image effects?a unique style that has become stronger in each of his films. His films tend to jump in...

• Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival

New Currents

• China
• 2021
• 83min

Farewell, My Hometown consists of three episodes. In the first episode, an elderly woman living in the mountains reflects on her life and recounts experiences of excruciating poverty, hard labor, and her child’s death, as the beau...

World Cinema

• United Kingdom
• 2021
• 95min

Ali and Ava, both lonely for different reasons, meet through a shared affection for Sofia, the six-year-old daughter of Ali′s Slovakian tenants, and whom Ava tutors. Ali finds comfort in Ava′s warmth and kindness and Ava finds Ali...

• Cannes Film Festival Directors′ Fortnight

World Cinema

• Colombia/Sweden/Qatar
• 2021
• 97min

After a long night's shift, single mother Amparo returns home to find that her teenage son has been drafted and will be sent to a war zone near the border. With only a single day left until his departure to the frontline, Ampar...

• Cannes Film Festival Critics′ Week

World Cinema

• Denmark
• 2021
• 86min

In the late 19th century, life for fourteen-year-old Lise is full of anticipation for the next chapter of her life at school. She looks forward to leaving the farm where she grew up, and with it, her younger siblings. But as night...

• Toronto International Film Festival in Discovery

World Cinema

• France
• 2021
• 130min

With his first feature, The Wild Boys (2017), director Bertrand Mandico demonstrated an unlimited creativity and unique talent. With his latest work, he presents a colorful futuristic western film set in another galaxy with After ...

• FIPRESCI Prize at Locarno International Film Festival