Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2021
• 5min

"Do you think I’m lying?" A woman relays her incredible childhood experience. The strange paper talismans she’d seen in her grandmother’s motel; bells ring and a shamanic ritual begins, enveloped in an eerie atmosphere. A stop-mot...

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

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 ...

On Screen

• Korea
• 2021
• 151min

"You will die at this time, and you will go to hell." Those who receive this notification are doomed to be dragged by the death angels from hell at the appointed time. These appointments with death occur in the middle of Seoul in ...

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

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

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2021
• 90min

A young couple is having a hard time because of their poor circumstances. They are both desperately searching for work, but that is not easy, either. Meanwhile, the husband is about to lose the camera he has lent to his acquaintan...

World Cinema

• Russia
• 2021
• 106min

After winning multiple awards at Venice and Berlin, director Aleksey German Jr. arrived at Cannes with House Arrest, a whistleblower′s drama that is perfectly in sync with the current events around the world. As the saying goes, "...

• Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard

New Currents

• India
• 2021
• 125min

At 6 am on June 21, a doctor in the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic meets a woman clad in a protective suit during his morning jog. After ignoring the woman’s pleas to see a patient at her house, he receives a blow to the head...

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