Special Program in Focus

• Hong Kong, China
• 2022
• 104min

Executive produced by Wong Kar Wai and directed by Jeffrey Lau, The Eagle Shooting Heroes is a comic martial arts film made during Wong Kar Wai’s short break from Ashes of Time (1994). Give the genre a try and you will encounter a...

World Cinema

• Italy/Belgium/France
• 2022
• 147min

For his adaptation of Paolo Cognetti′s novel, Felix Van Groeningen chose to co-direct with Charlotte Vandermeersch, much in the same way as the two characters do in the original work. The film presents a long chronology of the ...

• Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2022
• 87min

Zahra, a huge football fan from Tehran, faces a repeated ordeal. All she did was to go to the stadium to watch a football game she loves. Since 1981, Iran has banned women from the stadiums. For Zahra who is full of energy and ...

On Screen

• Denmark
• 2022
• 125min

It took twenty-five years for the supernatural drama The Kingdom to reach its third and final season. Even so newer fans of Lars von Trier should not be intimidated, because while The Kingdom Exodus is “heavily influenced” by its ...

• Venice Film Festival Out of Competition

World Cinema

• Switzerland/France/Belgium
• 2022
• 103min

Vivaldi’s music flows, vases fly, a record shatters, and scores flutter. An angry woman slaps another, who falls on the piano as she tries to run away. This four-minute slow-motion sequence shot by Agnes Godard provides one of ...

• Berlin International Film Festival Competition

Special Program in Focus

• Hong Kong, China
• 2022
• 85min

Two underground gangs clash over the leadership of the casino business in Macao. Tony Leung plays a corrupt cop, Sam, who is in league with the gangs. Amidst doubts, conspiracies, trades, and secrets, he has the face of a cold ass...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2022
• 25min

Three best friends riding skateboards freely on a university campus. They post pictures of themselves in their favorite places to preserve memories of their youth.

Midnight Passion

• United States
• 2022
• 106min

A couple, Margot and Tyler, are invited along with other celebrities by one of the most meticulous chefs in the world, Slowik, to a coastal island to eat at an exclusive restaurant. The couple and other invited guests board a boat...

• Toronto International Film Festival Special Presentations

World Cinema

• France
• 2022
• 114min

The Mountain is the latest work by Thomas Salvador, the director who debuted with Vincent (2014). This time Salvador plays the roles of the lead actor, director, and screenwriter. In a plot that seems to follow up on themes fro...

• SACD Award at Cannes Film Festival Directors′ Fortnight

Special Program in Focus

• Germany/Lithuania/Netherlands
• 2022
• 110min

A found footage film about World War II by Ukrainian master filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa, THE NATURAL HISTORY OF DESTRUCTION, was inspired by W.G. Sebald’s book of the same name. The film focuses on the Allied bombing of Germany in W...

• Cannes Film Festival Special Screenings