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• China/Hong Kong, China
• 2021
• 104min

Parting the dust storms of the Gobi Desert, a man arrives at the village theater. As he eagerly awaits the screening of Newsreel no. 22, a scruffy girl comes to steal the film reel. A fight breaks out between them, while an air of...

• Berlin International Film Festival in Competition

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia/Singapore
• 2021
• 96min

Yuni, a high school girl, is obsessed with the color purple. Her family, who lives in the countryside, is not affluent, and thus realizes how important it is for her to get a scholarship to continue what she wants - to study in a ...

• Platform Prize at Toronto International Film Festival

Special Program in Focus

• China
• 2021
• 124min

Wei Shujun′s third feature Ripples of Life is a collection of three stories about film and the people who make film. The episodes feature different central characters, but they are closely connected to each other. The first story ...

• Cannes Film Festival Directors′ Fortnight

World Cinema

• Romania
• 2021
• 105min

Three friends volunteer to make a humanitarian trip to the mountains, and when their car gets stuck in a ditch, they are forced to spend the night in the woods. A lonely old man they meet on the road appears to be delusional, perh...

• Cannes Film Festival Directors′ Fortnight

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• Korea
• 2021
• 67min

Hong’s film unfolds as a series of distinct and separate episodes. In the first one, Youngho (Shin Seokho) visits his father′s oriental clinic for something important, but the two do not face each other properly until the end of t...

• Berlin International Film Festival in Competition

World Cinema

• Italy/Germany/France
• 2021
• 94min

Michelangelo Frammartino blurred the boundaries between the inside and the outside, fiction and non-fiction, and humans and non-humans in The Four Times (2010). After ten years, he has returned to introduce Il Buco, a poetic adven...

• Special Jury Prize at Venice International Film Festival

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• Italy/France
• 2021
• 121min

Three Floors, Nanni Moretti′s fourtheenth film, and the first since My Mother (2015), is also the first film he has adapted instead rather than writing. The stage play by Israeli writer Eshkol Nevo has been relocated to Rome. The ...

• Cannes Film Festival in Competition

Flash Forward

• Mexico/Germany/Brazil/Qatar
• 2021
• 111min

Nestled in the mountains of Mexico, in the village where Ana and her friends live, houses are abandoned due to attacks from members of drug cartels. There, girls wear boyish haircuts and have hiding places underground. All the men...

• Special Mention - Un Certain Regard at Cannes Film Festival

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2021
• 126min

The Book of Fish depicts the process of Jeong Yakjeon (Sul Kyung-gu) and fisherman Changdae (Byun John) interacting beyond their social status. Jeong Yakjeon wrote a dictionary of sea life called 'The Book of Fish' on Heuksa...

Flash Forward

• United States
• 2021
• 94min

Seasoned jockey Jackson has weathered decades of races on the riding circuit, but he now finds himself facing what could be his last season as his health deteriorates. With the help of Ruth and a promising new horse, Jackson start...

• U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Best Actor at Sundance Film Festival