Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2021
• 82min

Night falls on the city, and More′s splendid and daring show begins. More, a drag queen at a club in Itaewon, Seoul, is a transgender who wanted to become a ballerina. The audience cheers, but More is fed up with the gig he/she ha...

• 2019 AND BIFF Mecenat Fund

Wide Angle

• Hong Kong, China/France/Netherlands
• 2021
• 97min

As a radioactivity meter beeps in the background, we travel to the most devastating place on our planet. Before the journey, the hellish spectacle of an atomic bombing is presented as a guide video. Is this a sci-fi film depicting...

• Cannes Film Festival in Special Screening

World Cinema

• Italy/Germany/France
• 2021
• 94min

Michelangelo Frammartino blurred the boundaries between the inside and the outside, fiction and non-fiction, and humans and non-humans in The Four Times (2010). After ten years, he has returned to introduce Il Buco, a poetic adven...

• Special Jury Prize at Venice International Film Festival

Icons

• Korea
• 2021
• 86min

Sangok (Lee Hyeyoung), who left for the U.S. long ago, has returned to Korea and is staying with her sister. Hong′s film doesn′t elaborate on the years Sangok has spent away from Korean, but rather, follows her in her everyday lif...

• Cannes Film Festival in Cannes Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2021
• 135min

Nine years since the Tohoku earthquake, starved corpses with tied hands and feet are found in Miyagi Prefecture. The victims are a civil servant in charge of health and welfare and a local government official. They were men of goo...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2021
• 85min

A husband earning good money as a senior manager for a good company. A daughter who has grown up beautifully. A son who is about to get married. A healthy puppy. A neatly organized and spacious home. Everything around Mrs. Yan loo...

• 2017 APM Project

Open Cinema

• Belgium/France
• 2021
• 100min

A mysterious girl named Gloria is hired as a maid in a house where Marcel Bellmer, a novelist, and his wife Jeanne, a publisher, live. Questions are cast: Who is she? What kind of secret does Marcel′s bestselling novel Inexorable ...

• Toronto Film Festival in Special Presentation

Open Cinema

• Hong Kong, China
• 2021
• 101min

"Mugando", the road to hell where extreme suffering is eternal, is the original title for the film Infernal Affairs, which tells the story of two men who are enemies but also the only people who can understand each other. Chan Win...

World Cinema

• Romania
• 2021
• 105min

Three friends volunteer to make a humanitarian trip to the mountains, and when their car gets stuck in a ditch, they are forced to spend the night in the woods. A lonely old man they meet on the road appears to be delusional, perh...

• Cannes Film Festival Directors′ Fortnight

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• Korea
• 2021
• 67min

Hong’s film unfolds as a series of distinct and separate episodes. In the first one, Youngho (Shin Seokho) visits his father′s oriental clinic for something important, but the two do not face each other properly until the end of t...

• Berlin International Film Festival in Competition