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• France
• 2021
• 113min

Everything Went Fine, Francois Ozon’s adaptation of an autobiographical work by Emmanuele Bernheim, is the latest in a series of mature works presented that nonetheless exhibits the same youthful sensibility that distinguished Ozo...

• Cannes Film Festival in Competition

World Cinema

• Germany/France
• 2021
• 179min

Dominik Graf’s three-hour love story is based on the novel of the same name by the poet and novelist Erich Kastner. Although the story set in Dresden, Germany, 1931, the film has a great deal with the specifically French settings ...

• Berlin International Film Festival In Competition

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 ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2021
• 80min

When a miracle appears at your door, it usually does so in silence. Hochul(Kim Ju-hun) and Youngran (Ryu Hyun-kyung), the owners of two cafes, fall in love with each other and plan to live together. However, they must wait for the...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2021
• 87min

A teenage girl who appears on a TV show as an idol singer′s fan calls herself a ′seongdeok′ (successful fan), because her idol appeared on the same program. Years later, the same idol singer is arrested on charges of gang rape and...

New Currents

• China
• 2021
• 83min

Farewell, My Hometown consists of three episodes. In the first episode, an elderly woman living in the mountains reflects on her life and recounts experiences of excruciating poverty, hard labor, and her child’s death, as the beau...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Jordan/Sweden/Saudi Arabia
• 2021
• 92min

A debut film by Jordanian director Darin J. Sallam, FARHA shows the Arab-Israeli conflict that broke out in Palestine in 1948 through the eyes of a girl. Fourteen-year-old Farha lives in a rural village in Palestine where traditio...

• Toronto International Film Festival in Discovery, TIFF Next Wave

Flash Forward

• France/Egypt/Netherlands/Greece
• 2021
• 115min

Omar El Zohairy established his unique approach to cinema in his first short film, which was inspired by silent films. His debut feature, Feathers, represents a kind of culmination of this strategy. The film presents the portrait ...

• Grand Prize at Cannes Film Festival Critics′ Week

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2021
• 73min

The protagonist, a film director, prepares to start a new project. He visits the home of a woman with whom he appears to be friends, following a failed romance. The man tells the woman the story of his new film. Then, the developm...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kazakhstan
• 2021
• 82min

Tolik, a bread delivery man, lives with his pregnant wife Altynai, his two daughters? Saule who is about to enter college and her younger sister? and a somewhat selfish father. The family is already drowning in debt. Meanwhile, Sa...