Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2021
• 100min

Chun Taeil was an assistant who once bought bread for hungry girls working in factories; a tailor who could not turn a blind eye to the poor working conditions in Pyeonghwa Market; and a worker who had no choice but to shout to de...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Uzbekistan
• 2021
• 83min

Tengiz marries Madiyar, an only child, and is forced to conceive within a month of their marriage. At her mother-in-law’s insistence, she hops on a train to go to the hospital and visit her parents along the way. There she learns ...

World Cinema

• France
• 2021
• 109min

The plot of Titane is surprisingly simple: A woman, who has had a titanium plate planted in her head, following a car accident when she was a child, is suddenly seized with strange desires, and thus, becomes involved in a series o...

• Palme d′Or at Cannes Film Festival

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Bangladesh/Singapore/Qatar
• 2021
• 108min

Rehana, who works as a teaching assistant at medical school, is a single mother to Emu, who attends elementary school. Her unemployed younger brother forgets to pick up Emu or gets into trouble, while Rehana gets insulin shots and...

• Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard, 2018 APM Project

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Jordan/Sweden/Saudi Arabia
• 2021
• 92min

A debut film by Jordanian director Darin J. Sallam, FARHA shows the Arab-Israeli conflict that broke out in Palestine in 1948 through the eyes of a girl. Fourteen-year-old Farha lives in a rural village in Palestine where traditio...

• Toronto International Film Festival in Discovery, TIFF Next Wave

World Cinema

• Germany/France
• 2021
• 179min

Dominik Graf’s three-hour love story is based on the novel of the same name by the poet and novelist Erich Kastner. Although the story set in Dresden, Germany, 1931, the film has a great deal with the specifically French settings ...

• Berlin International Film Festival In Competition

Icons

• New Zealand/Australia
• 2021
• 128min

It is 1925, and the Burbank brothers, Phil and George, are wealthy ranchers in Montana. At the Red Mill restaurant, where they have stopped on their way to market, the brothers meet Rose, the widowed proprietress, and her impressi...

• Silver Lion - Award for Best Director at Venice International Film Festival

World Cinema

• United States
• 2021
• 99min

Irene Redfield, a refined, upper-class woman, finds breezy refuge from a hot summer day in the grand tearoom of New York City′s Drayton Hotel. Across the room, she spots a blond woman staring her down. Irene wants to flee, but bef...

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• Canada
• 2021
• 110min

Colombo, Sri Lanka, in 1974. Arjie, the second son of an upper-class family, enjoys playing weddings more than cricket. Supported by his free-spirited aunt Radha, he begins to learn musicals and Radha, who has to leave for Canada ...

• Canadian Screen Awards, Best Director

New Currents

• India
• 2021
• 108min

Pedro is an electrician leading an invisible life in a forest village in western India. Skilled in climbing up power poles and getting the job done, Pedro lives with Julie, her son Binu, and Julie′s mother. Julie was originally Pe...