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• Iran/France
• 2021
• 128min

Asghar Farhadi is an auteur who tenaciously delves into ethical dilemmas, revealing the true nature of humans through the cracks in trivial and ordinary daily life. Along with A Separation (2011), A Hero is one of Farhadi’s repres...

• Grand Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2021
• 116min

As the title suggests, this film is serene and contemplative in the way that it portrays drifts, solitude, and mysteries in life with a calm voice. Yoonchul is a sculptor, but he mostly makes living with an interior design job. He...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong, China/France
• 2021
• 179min

Qiu Fu, a leading actor in Sichuan opera who began his stage career at age seven and has been an actor for over 40 years, dies and meets two underworld officials. He refuses to drink the liquor of oblivion, so until he departs for...

• Jury Prize at Locarno International Film Festival

Wide Angle

• India/France
• 2021
• 97min

Beginning with the caption that a box of memory cards, snippets of articles, and dried flowers was found on a shelf at a university in India, A Night of Knowing Nothing is a bold documentary that uses the concept of found footage...

• Best Documentary Award at Cannes Film Festival Directors′ Fortnight

Special Program in Focus

• Hong Kong, China
• 2021
• 118min

Roger, a successful film producer, is simply dressed but has a fastidious taste, thanks to Ah Tao, who has been a housekeeper for his family for over 60 years. To Roger and his siblings, she is akin to a stepmother. When Ah Tao su...

World Cinema

• France
• 2021
• 103min

Ahmed, a French-Algerian teen, has grown up in the suburbs of Paris. One day, he sees Farah, a Tunisian girl who just transferred to his school, and is immediately smitten. In a class where the two study together, he discovers a c...

• Closing Film at Venice International Film Festival Critics′ Week

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2021
• 29min

Piano teacher Ingyeong begins to study Japanese when her boyfriend is assigned to a job in Japan. As her boyfriend's departure date approaches, she wonders why she's studying Japanese. Will she find an answer? Without drama,...

Wide Angle

• Canada
• 2021
• 74min

If you were able to create an immortal version of yourself, would you? Until this decade, that question was the stuff of science fiction, but now experts in the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics suggest it will indeed...

World Cinema

• France
• 2021
• 130min

With his first feature, The Wild Boys (2017), director Bertrand Mandico demonstrated an unlimited creativity and unique talent. With his latest work, he presents a colorful futuristic western film set in another galaxy with After ...

• FIPRESCI Prize at Locarno International Film Festival

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• Israel/France/Germany
• 2021
• 110min

Ahed′s Knee is the latest film by Nadav Lapid, whose films often make use of rough and direct techniques in scenes that require image effects?a unique style that has become stronger in each of his films. His films tend to jump in...

• Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival