Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2021
• 91min

In a cramped space full of miscellaneous objects, a man in his pajamas laboriously moves the piano from one wall to the other. When he projects his video on the wall by the piano, dark blue waves ripple over his figure playing the...

Flash Forward

• Georgia/Germany
• 2021
• 151min

Love at first sight?romantic yet unrealistic?and yet that is how all great romances begin. Alexandre Koberidze's What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? is no exception. It is the story of Lisa and Giorgi, their first encounter...

• FIPRESCI Prize at Berlin International Film Festival

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2021
• 121min

Perhaps we could call this a milder version of a Hong Sangsoo film. Haruhara-san’s Recorder lacks something that a drama should have. Rather than telling the protagonist’s story from start to finish, the film shows several situati...

• Grand Prize, Audience Award, Best Performance Award at FIDMarseille

World Cinema

• Kosovo/Switzerland/Macedonia/Albania
• 2021
• 84min

Like thousands of women in Kosovo, Fahrije is struggling to provide for her father-in-law and children since her husband has gone missing in the war. She obtains a driver's license and launches a small business to produce homem...

• World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize, Audience Award, Directing Award at Sundance Film Festival

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2021
• 61min

In the darkness of night, a man and a woman walk in an alley sharing a cigarette. They are detectives working together. Their story is complicated: They are about to make up a scene where they arrest a criminal whom they have alre...

Opening Film & Closing Film

• Korea
• 2021
• 101min

No. 203 (Choi Min-sik), a long-term prisoner, is now old. All he wants is to get out of prison as soon as possible. However, No. 203 feels something is not right. He soon discovers that he has only three months to live because of ...

World Cinema

• France/Germany
• 2021
• 98min

At first glance, this film is reminiscent of A Woman Under the Influence (1974) by John Cassavetes: a woman, who is mentally unstable, suddenly finds herself far away from her husband and children. As the story progresses, however...

• Cannes Film Festival in Cannes Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Cambodia/France/China/Qatar
• 2021
• 91min

The White Building was once an icon of the successful urbanization and modernization of Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. As it decays, its residents are leaving one by one. The tension of the conflicts among them are rising, a...

• Orrizzonti Award for Best Actor at Venice International Film Festival, 2016 APM Project

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Palestine/Egypt/Netherlands
• 2021
• 91min

This latest film by Hany Abu-Assad, a Palestinian auteur famous for Paradise Now (2005) and Omar (2013), depicts the struggle for survival of women who have been used in the intense intelligence war waged between Palestine and Isr...

• Toronto International Film Festival in Platform

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2021
• 118min

Liu wants to sell his unprofitable travel agency business. One day, when one of his employees falls into a coma for a dubious reason, his family and relatives come to Liu, demanding a settlement. Meanwhile, Liu’s ex-wife Tao Qing,...