Special Program in Focus

• Japan/France
• 2022
• 89min

A joint project that came together through an encounter between Igarashi Kohei and Damien Manivel at the 2014 Locarno International Film Festival. Set in Hirosakishi, Aomori Prefecture, The Night I Swam follows a boy’s journey thr...

• Venice Film Festival Orizzonti

World Cinema

• France
• 2022
• 114min

On the night of October 12, 2016, twenty-one-year-old Clara Royer was doused in gasoline and burned alive. Who might have done such a barbaric thing? Yohan and the police begin their investigations around Clara′s friends and fa...

• Cannes Film Festival in Cannes Premiere

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• Korea
• 2022
• 92min

Junhee (Lee Hyeyoung) is a well-known novelist, but she has lost her will to write anymore. She feels as if writing a novel is a process of inflating small things. The Novelist’s Film follows Junhee′s strange and mysterious journe...

• Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at Berlin International Film Festival

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2022
• 120min

The Policeman′s Lineage tells the story of an unethical cop who puts his job before anything else, and a rookie cop who is assigned to monitor him. Min-jae (Choi Woo-shik) is a by-the-book police officer who is the third genera...

Midnight Passion

• United States
• 2022
• 85min

Two criminals attempt to rob a local pawn shop. When their planned robbery goes awry and a gang of criminals find themselves injured with a resilient young female hostage in tow, they take refuge at a remote farmhouse to try to le...

World Cinema

• Ireland
• 2022
• 95min

Set in 1981, this film tells the story of a young girl, Cait, who is sent away for the summer from her dysfunctional family to live with "her mother′s people". These are Sean and Eibhlin Cinnsealach; a middle-aged couple she has...

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

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2022
• 100min

Yebun searches for the remains or any traces of her young granddaughter, who drowned in the river a year ago. Still feeling guilty about her granddaughter′s death, Yebun spends her days in pain. Meanwhile, Okim, Yubun’s old fri...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Mongolia
• 2022
• 124min

Reticent Saruul loves to draw, but at the wishes of her parents, she is studying nuclear engineering instead. One day, a friend slips on a banana peel and breaks her leg. She asks Saruul to fill in for her at her part-time job at ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kyrgyzstan
• 2022
• 91min

Asan’s family moves to a quiet rural village, where children play by lighting a fire under a rock and roasting bird eggs using twigs and snack on them. Asan soon befriends the village children Dastan and Bayel. Bayel, who lives wi...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2022
• 19min

A former bully and his victim are in the same car. As if he’d forgotten all about the past, the victim Min-gyu drops off the bully Tae-won at home. Soon after, the tables are turned with the appearance of unexpected people. An e...