Wide Angle

• Kyrgyzstan
• 2021
• 19min

Orozbek, a joyful boy who loves to draw, lives with his grandmother in a remote village deep in the snowy mountains. He has to walk a long distance to school, and one day the stream washes over its banks, blocking his way. (PARK S...

Wide Angle

• China
• 2021
• 28min

A middle-aged Buddhist monk in a small temple suffers from increasing tooth pain. To complicate matters, he must endure the construction noise of the development that will eventually raze the temple. (PARK Sungho)

New Currents

• Korea
• 2021
• 102min

Seire is the period of twenty-one days in which people are supposed to take utmost care in their behaviors and strangers are not allowed to visit to protect a newborn baby from bad luck. The film Seire takes an idea from this folk...

Wide Angle

• China
• 2021
• 109min

In 2019, director Zhang Mengqi spent her ninth winter in the village of "47KM" in Hebei Province. "47KM" is her father′s hometown, and she′s completed a film every time she visited. Self-Portrait: Fairy Tale in 47KM is the ninth i...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2021
• 93min

Lucknow, northern India, in 1962. In the upper-class family of a high-ranking police officer, Shankar is an indispensable servant. To Anjana who attends a Catholic school and her little brother Bhaiya, Shankar is a nanny, a cook, ...

• Locarno International Film Festival in Filmmakers of the present Competition

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2021
• 114min

Disaster reveals the society′s hidden face. It is, therefore, an effective device to show social problems with its story where characters must run for survival. Sinkhole shows where Korean disaster movies are currently situated. D...

World Cinema

• Italy/France/Slovenia
• 2021
• 89min

In 1990, Agatha, a young woman living in an island village in Italy, gives birth to a stillborn baby. Agatha cannot accept that her child will be condemned to exist in forever, and thus, sets out alone in search of a mysterious sa...

• Cannes Film Festival Critics′ Week

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2021
• 115min

Sophie′s world shows the four days in the life of Sophie during her visit at Sooyoung and Jonggu′s house. It portrays, in a plain tone, the struggles of Sooyoung and Jonggu, who are in love with each other, and the episodes Sophie...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2021
• 29min

Injeong, a promising contract designer with only a high school diploma, ends up making poor decisions out of inferiority complex about her academic background. On one unlucky day, a strangely unpleasant smell follows her all day. ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2021
• 137min

Space Sweepers was one of the most anticipated Korean films in the first half of 2021. Director Jo Sung-hee creates a unique fantasy while following some of the SF genre rules, and in so doing, introduces his own unique take on re...