World Cinema

• France/Belgium
• 2022
• 115min

Bowling Saturne Patricia Mazuy’s follow-up to her successful Paul Sanchez is Back! (2018) offers a unique take on the thriller genre: A police officer, Guillaume, asks his half-brother, Armand, to manage the bowling alley that ...

• Locarno International Film Festival Concorso Internazionale

Gala Presentation

• France/Italy/Germany
• 2022
• 105min

Following Martin Eden(2019), Pietro Marcello adds another unique work of lyricism and romanticism to his filmography. An adaptation of Alexander Green’s Russian fairy tale Scarlet Sails(1923), this film is set in Normandy after th...

• Opening Film at Cannes Film Festival Directors′ Fortnight

Jiseok

• Iran
• 2022
• 90min

In a world that seems devoid of goodness, Scent of Wind is a film that reaffirms our faith in humanity. A disabled man lives with his paralyzed son in a remote Iranian village. One day, the power goes out, and an electrician visit...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kazakhstan
• 2022
• 74min

When Masha receives a personal message from Ramil, a social media celebrity, she decides to meet him. Ramil takes money from a middle-aged man and borrows a luxury apartment to throw a party for teenage girls. The girls get to enj...

• Grand Prix of the Generation 14plus International Jury for the Best Feature Film at Berlin International Film Festival

Wide Angle

• Korea/Canada
• 2022
• 82min

Koreans become aware of the Korean War from the very early childhood, but their levels of awareness vary greatly: Those who have personally experienced the war have opinions that inevitably differ from those who have only read ...

Wide Angle

• France/Kingdom of Eswatini/Iran/Lebanon
• 2022
• 97min

Director Mitra Farahani recorded the correspondence between French- Swiss director Jean-Luc Godard and Iranian writer and director Ebrahim Golestan. The 91-year-old director lives in Rolle, Switzerland and the 100-year-old Iran...

• Special Jury Prize at Berlin International Film Festival Encounters

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Azerbaijan/Mexico/Switzerland/Turkiye
• 2022
• 90min

Azerbaijani director Hilal Baydarov, whose film In Between Dying competed in the Venice Film Festival in 2020, studied film with Bela Tarr at Sarajevo Film Academy. Thus it is inevitable to feel Tarr’s influence from his films. Ba...

• Green Leopard WWF Award at Locarno International Film Festival

Jiseok

• India
• 2022
• 123min

Preparing to enroll in universities, Deepa and Hari are in love. When a video they record in an empty classroom after school gets uploaded to a porn site, the school convenes a committee meeting to punish them. Yet the committee’s...

Wide Angle

• Kyrgyzstan
• 2022
• 20min

Two friends who grew up together in the countryside and moved to the city struggle to adjust to urban life. An unsolvable longing remains in one who has been hiding his heart.

New Currents

• India
• 2022
• 104min

Shivamma is an ardent sales rep for the energy drink Nuracle. The multilevel marketing method at Nuracle is her only belief and motivation for life. To Shivamma, living in a poor town on the outskirts of a city with her bed-ridden...