Flash Forward

• Mexico/Germany/Brazil/Qatar
• 2021
• 111min

Nestled in the mountains of Mexico, in the village where Ana and her friends live, houses are abandoned due to attacks from members of drug cartels. There, girls wear boyish haircuts and have hiding places underground. All the men...

• Special Mention - Un Certain Regard at Cannes Film Festival

Wide Angle

• Taiwan/Myanmar
• 2021
• 79min

RAIN IN 2020 is a seven-year documentary about the struggles of Ah-Tian, a young jade miner in Myanmar, and his family. There are three things that make life difficult for Ah-Tian, who is also director Lee Yong Chao′s younger brot...

New Currents

• Kazakhstan
• 2021
• 113min

Anar marries Marat and lives with him and his son Adil. Pregnant Anar requires care, as she is anemic and at a high risk of miscarriage. When Marat hastens their move to the countryside, Anar finds herself in unfamiliar surroundin...

Icons

• United States
• 2021
• 131min

Former porn star Mikey Saber finds himself down and out in Los Angeles. He decides to crawl back to his hometown of Texas City, Texas, where his estranged wife and mother-in-law are living. Just as this dysfunctional family seems ...

• Cannes Film Festival in Competition

World Cinema

• Ukraine
• 2021
• 125min

Surgeon Serhiy is captured by pro-Russian rebels in Eastern Ukraine and is exposed to horrific scenes of humiliation, torture and dehumanization. After returning home from the infernal odyssey, Serhiy tries to settle into his comf...

• Venice International Film Festival In Competition

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Bangladesh/Singapore/Qatar
• 2021
• 108min

Rehana, who works as a teaching assistant at medical school, is a single mother to Emu, who attends elementary school. Her unemployed younger brother forgets to pick up Emu or gets into trouble, while Rehana gets insulin shots and...

• Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard, 2018 APM Project

Wide Angle

• France
• 2021
• 84min

Returning to Reims (Fragments) is an adaptation of sociologist Didier Eribon’s memoirs, composed as he traveled to his hometown when his father fell ill. A rising star, Adele Haenel, narrates Eribon′s voice and documentary directo...

• Cannes Film Festival Directors′ Fortnight

Special Program in Focus

• China
• 2021
• 124min

Wei Shujun′s third feature Ripples of Life is a collection of three stories about film and the people who make film. The episodes feature different central characters, but they are closely connected to each other. The first story ...

• Cannes Film Festival Directors′ Fortnight

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2021
• 120min

A young man named Takeshi arrives at a small fishing village. He gets a job at a squid cannery and moves into an old apartment with the help of the cannery owner. Takeshi’s monotonous life is interrupted by a visit from his neighb...

Special Program in Focus

• India
• 2021
• 113min

Left alone in the circus, Krishna arrives at the city of Bombay and lives with a gang of street children. On the other side of India′s leading tourist destination of Bombay lie the poverty-stricken reality of street children, brot...

• Camera d′Or at Cannes Film Festival