A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2021
• 209min

Justice is nowhere to be found when the world is overwhelmed by corruption and violence. The talented director from the Philippines, Erik Matti, has created a chronicle of the experiences of a people whose lives intersect. There i...

• Best Actor Award at Venice International Film Festival in Competition

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• China/Hong Kong, China
• 2021
• 104min

Parting the dust storms of the Gobi Desert, a man arrives at the village theater. As he eagerly awaits the screening of Newsreel no. 22, a scruffy girl comes to steal the film reel. A fight breaks out between them, while an air of...

• Berlin International Film Festival in Competition

Flash Forward

• France/Japan/Germany/Belgium/Italy/Cambodia
• 2021
• 165min

Onoda Hiroo, a Japanese soldier who refuses to accept the fact that the war ended in 1945, spends the next twenty-nine years fighting tirelessly. This film is the second feature by director Arthur Harari, who is widely renowned fo...

• Opening film at Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2021
• 23min

Middle-aged lesbian couple Geumja and Yeo-ok receive a call in the middle of the night about the death of Yeo-ok's ex-husband. They travel a long way to their hometown for the first time in 20 years, but they are unwelcomed gue...

Wide Angle

• India
• 2021
• 23min

Vitthal, a sixteen-year-old boy, earns money to support his poor family in the countryside by taking care of cows. He wants to visit his dying mother, but his cold-hearted employer will fire him as soon as he leaves. (PARK Sungho)

World Cinema

• United States
• 2021
• 99min

Irene Redfield, a refined, upper-class woman, finds breezy refuge from a hot summer day in the grand tearoom of New York City′s Drayton Hotel. Across the room, she spots a blond woman staring her down. Irene wants to flee, but bef...

New Currents

• India
• 2021
• 108min

Pedro is an electrician leading an invisible life in a forest village in western India. Skilled in climbing up power poles and getting the job done, Pedro lives with Julie, her son Binu, and Julie′s mother. Julie was originally Pe...

New Currents

• Indonesia
• 2021
• 130min

Sur, a freshman, volunteers as a web designer for a university theatre group. Their premiere is successful, and she is invited to a party. She attends the party and is caught up in the exciting music and a welcoming atmosphere, bu...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2021
• 91min

In a cramped space full of miscellaneous objects, a man in his pajamas laboriously moves the piano from one wall to the other. When he projects his video on the wall by the piano, dark blue waves ripple over his figure playing the...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2021
• 70min

As someone once said, the reason there aren’t films about writers is because there would be nothing to see. Who would want to watch someone sit at the desk and move his fingers all night? Yet Poets’ Window captures precisely that ...