Wide Angle

• Hong Kong, China/United States
• 2021
• 83min

In 2019, the world watched from afar as people of Hong Kong took to the streets. Scenes of protests captured by drones. An unimaginable number of two million protesters. As firebombs and police batons fly, the city is turned into ...

Special Program in Focus

• China
• 2021
• 93min

Lin, a documentary filmmaker from Beijing, finishes the screening of her new film in Tokyo and heads to Niigata Prefecture, where Kawabata Yasuwari wrote Snow Country. She recently split up with her long-time lover, Guiren. After ...

• Berlin International Film Fesetival Forum

On Screen

• Thailand
• 2021
• 99min

Far from Bangkok, there is a secret place that lies beyond the boundaries of a remote village located deep in the forest. Here sick people were once abandoned while still alive, and in the valley, bodies lie scattered all around. ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2021
• 130min

Single mom Pin-Wen is a capable career woman who lives with her teenage daughter, Xiao Jing. On the day Pin-Wen is informed of a salary cut due to the company’s worsening circumstances, she receives a call from Xiao Jing during a ...

• Venice International Film Festival Orrizzonti

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2021
• 100min

In 1991, the issue of "comfort women" was raised for the first time through the testimony of the late Kim Hak-sun. One of the first reporters in Japan to write an article about her testimony was Uemura Takashi of The Asahi Shimbun...

World Cinema

• United States
• 2021
• 117min

Blue Bayou, the latest project by award-winning writer/director Justin Chon, is the timely story of an American family fighting for their future. Chon plays Antonio LeBlanc, a Korean adoptee raised in a small town in the Louisiana...

• Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard

Special Program in Focus

• China
• 2021
• 151min

Gu Xiaogang expanded an autobiographical documentary about his hometown of Fuyang and his family amid the development frenzy into the feature film Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains. As the title suggests, the film tells the story o...

• Closing Film at Cannes Film Festival Critics′ Week

Icons

• France/Germany/Belgium
• 2021
• 133min

With France, Bruno Dumont returns to modern times after his earlier trips back to the Middle Ages with Joan of Arc (2019). His latest feature focuses on the world of French media and news channels. Lea Seydoux plays France De Meu...

• Cannes Film Festival in Competition

Icons

• United States
• 2021
• 107min

A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional twentieth century French city brings to life a collection of stories published in The French Dispatch Magazine. The film is inspired by Wes And...

• Cannes Film Festival in Competition

Flash Forward

• Italy/Belgium
• 2021
• 141min

Following the previous superhero movie They Call Me Jeeg (2015), Gabriele Mainetti once again dedicates his latest movie Freaks Out to those who have extraordinary talents. 'Freaks' are the members of the circus, comprising ...

• Venice International Film Festival In Competition