Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2021
• 76min

By the Gyeongho river in Sancheong-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do Province, is located Sungsim-won where the patients of Hansen's disease stay. It was built with the money raised from selling the relief supplies after the Korean War and...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2021
• 89min

The film begins with the title Chorokbam filling the screen, which is amazing to see. This is the very moment at which the audience decides to trust this film without hesitation. In terms of how to fill and empty the square frame,...

Special Program in Focus

• Iran
• 2021
• 85min

The memorable opening sequence shows a group of men each with a black chalkboard on his back. The blackboards, which should be attached to classroom walls, become the most dynamic subject in this film, moving across the Iran-Iraq ...

• Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival

Icons

• United Kingdom
• 2021
• 94min

Cow is a unique documentary about the daily lives of two cows, Luma, and her newborn calf. Andrea Arnold’s film illustrates the lives of these animals with no voiceover narration or interviews, whatsoever. Despite its absence of h...

• Cannes Film Festival in Cannes Premiere

Special Program in Focus

• China
• 2021
• 110min

In Bi Gan’s cinematic world, there is no use to divide time into the past, present, and future?meaning spaces that presuppose different temporality can be connected, juxtaposed, or coexist. The simultaneous existence, or state, of...

• Best Emerging Director at Locarno Film Festival

World Cinema

• Iceland
• 2021
• 100min

Bussi is a tough supercop who could use some anger management skills, while his new partner, Horđur, is smooth as butter, never losing his cool in tailor-made suits. The mismatched partners constantly bicker with each other but ha...

• Locarno International Film Festival In Competition

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2021
• 120min

The Conversation is the second feature film of Director Kim Dukjoong, who received critical praise for his film, The Education, which was invited to the New Currents at the Busan International Film Festival in 2019. His second fea...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2021
• 115min

Influenced by his late mother, Dhruv has become a wildlife zoologist. He goes to conduct field research to study mammals at the Kodaikanal Wildlife Sanctuary in Tamil Nadu. It is essential to hire a local guide to navigate through...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2021
• 116min

On a winter night in 2002, a couple in their early 20s is breaking up atop a bridge, when the woman falls down. Is it a suicide or accidental death? The man asks a friend to call an ambulance, but the woman dies. The man and his f...

World Cinema

• Italy
• 2021
• 122min

Jonas Carpignano made a series of films set in Calabria, a region in southern Italy infamous for its criminal activity. For example, in Mediterranea (2015), he focuses on the plight of refugees from Burkina Faso, and in A Ciambra ...

• Best European Film Prize at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight