Special Program in Focus

• Lebanon
• 2021
• 127min

A Lebanese boy serving time as a violent offender sues his parents. His reason? "Because I was born." Zain, whose parents don’t even know his date of birth, has many younger siblings. When his sister Sahar is sold to their landlor...

• Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival

World Cinema

• Russia/Estonia/France
• 2021
• 127min

Set in the era of Stalin′s Great Purge, this fast-paced thriller centers around a Soviet captain admired by his peers and commanders alike. But soon the ruthless leader gets a taste of his own medicine: Captain Volkonogov is hunte...

• Venice International Film Festival In Competition

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2021
• 89min

The film begins with the title Chorokbam filling the screen, which is amazing to see. This is the very moment at which the audience decides to trust this film without hesitation. In terms of how to fill and empty the square frame,...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2021
• 100min

Chun Taeil was an assistant who once bought bread for hungry girls working in factories; a tailor who could not turn a blind eye to the poor working conditions in Pyeonghwa Market; and a worker who had no choice but to shout to de...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2021
• 21min

An old key maker begins to suffer from hand tremors and thus, finds it impossible to continue his career. His doctor advises him to retire, but he fears becoming useless, and his approaching death. (PARK Sungho)

Flash Forward

• Finland/Germany/Estonia/Russia
• 2021
• 108min

At the end of her studies and an affair in Moscow, Laura from Finland boards on a train to Murmansk to see some ancient petroglyphs. She finds herself sharing Compartment No. 6 with Ljoha, a brash-talking, vodka-swilling Russian m...

• Grand Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival

World Cinema

• Iceland
• 2021
• 100min

Bussi is a tough supercop who could use some anger management skills, while his new partner, Horđur, is smooth as butter, never losing his cool in tailor-made suits. The mismatched partners constantly bicker with each other but ha...

• Locarno International Film Festival In Competition

Icons

• United Kingdom
• 2021
• 94min

Cow is a unique documentary about the daily lives of two cows, Luma, and her newborn calf. Andrea Arnold’s film illustrates the lives of these animals with no voiceover narration or interviews, whatsoever. Despite its absence of h...

• Cannes Film Festival in Cannes Premiere

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2021
• 116min

On a winter night in 2002, a couple in their early 20s is breaking up atop a bridge, when the woman falls down. Is it a suicide or accidental death? The man asks a friend to call an ambulance, but the woman dies. The man and his f...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2021
• 148min

In 1996, a woman from rural Vietnam, Van Tue, immigrates to marry a Taiwanese man in search of a better life. Her husband earns a living as a construction worker. Her mother-in-law refuses to trust her. Van Tue wants to open a sma...