A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2022
• 140min

After a long lockdown brought on by the pandemic, the city is astir with ambulances and people mourning. People’s lives are in jeopardy due to hardship and anxiety. Jaan, who runs a restaurant and a bakery and also works in civil ...

• Toronto International Film Festival Platform

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• Sweden/Germany/France/United Kingdom/United States/Greece
• 2022
• 148min

This year’s Palme d’Or winner is an unapologetic social satire that may ruffle some feathers with its uncomfortable jokes, but is undeniably entertaining. The ping-pong dialogues are as smooth as the luxury cruise boat’s polished ...

• Palme d′Or at Cannes Film Festival

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2022
• 80min

Upon hearing the news about the redevelopment of the Kolon Shopping Mall in Cheonho-dong, Won Taewoong, the director of Universe Department Store, recalls the Universe Department Store that opened in the 1980s and shut down in ...

World Cinema

• Bolivia/Uruguay/France
• 2022
• 88min

An old couple living in the Andes highlands of Bolivia raise llamas. One day they are visited by their grandson. Locals have started to abandon the drought-stricken village, but the couple stubbornly sticks to traditional lifes...

• Grand Jury Prize for World Cinema Dramatic at Sundance Film Festival

Flash Forward

• Slovak Republic/Czech Republic/Germany
• 2022
• 92min

When her son Igor is attacked, single mom Irina rushes back to the Czech town where they live. Igor tries to hide what really happened to him and spots three Roma as the assailants, and Irina’s blind love seeks for justice whil...

• Venice Film Festival Orizzonti

Open Cinema

• India
• 2022
• 173min

Just as Hollywood’s Top Gun has Tom Cruise, so, too Indian cinema’s Vikram has Kamal Haasan! Both Top Gun and Vikram were first produced in 1986, and in 2022 both stories return with even more spectacular sequels, and starring the...

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• Korea
• 2022
• 98min

Director Byungsoo (Kwon Haehyo) visits the building of interior designer Haeok (Lee Hyeyoung) with his daughter Jungsoo (Park Miso). Byungsoo and Jungsoo climb up the cramped and steep stairs and tour the space with Haeok. While B...

On Screen

• Korea
• 2022
• 123min

Weak Hero Class 1 is a coming-of-age drama that investigates the meaning of real strength. Yeon Sieun (Park Ji-hoon) is not interested in anything other than studying, but he does not avoid fighting back if someone provokes a figh...

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• Philippines/France/Portugal/Denmark
• 2022
• 188min

Hermes, a capable police officer solves cold cases, feels a sense of professional ambivalence about his role in the war on drugs. Several times a day, he sees the bodies of so-called ‘drug offenders’ who have been killed on the st...

• Venice Film Festival Out of Competition

Wide Angle

• United Kingdom
• 2022
• 94min

Indian journalist Ravish Kumar, who has hosted prime time TV news for a long time, feels that there has never been a more serious crisis than the one India faces right now. Standing in opposition to Prime Minister Modi, he has ...

• Toronto International Film Festival TIFF Docs