Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2021
• 19min

Upon arriving in Seoul for college entrance exam prep classes, Seoyun decides to visit her older sister, who had long severed contact with her family. At her sister's apartment, Seoyun is greeted by her sister's lover. The t...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2021
• 76min

By the Gyeongho river in Sancheong-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do Province, is located Sungsim-won where the patients of Hansen's disease stay. It was built with the money raised from selling the relief supplies after the Korean War and...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Azerbaijan/France/Germany
• 2021
• 86min

What was life like in a communist collective farm during World War II? Sughra’s Sons is a film about a historical tragedy that took place in a small village. The head of the farm is a man with unchecked power who decides on ration...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2021
• 15min

High school student Minjae wants to die. He jumps out of a classroom window, but instead of dying, he is forced to see the school counselor. The audience will soon become sympathetic to the dark or strange story of a boy who has d...

Wide Angle

• United States
• 2021
• 117min

In 1969, during the same summer as Woodstock, a different music festival took place one hundred miles away. More than 300,000 people attended the summer concert series known as the Harlem Cultural Festival. Although the event was ...

• Grand Jury Prize, Audience Award: U.S. Documentary at Sundanve Film Festival

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• Mexico/France/Sweden
• 2021
• 83min

Auteur Michel Franco does a 180 with his latest film Sundown, a cold-eyed stare at existential crisis starring Tim Roth and Charlotte Gainsbourg. The two look like a couple on a peaceful and luxurious vacation with their kids at a...

• Venice International Film Festival in Competition

Special Program in Focus

• Japan
• 2021
• 95min

Suzaku is an elegy to the gradual dissolution of a family and life in a remote timber village. When the economic downturn hits a small mountain village, many people leave, and the construction of the train tunnel that connects th...

• Camera d′Or at Cannes Film Festival

Special Program in Focus

• Korea
• 2021
• 112min

Five friends who graduated from a vocational school in Incheon have their own burdens. While Hae-joo, Tae-hee, and Chinese-Korean twins Bi-ryu and Ohn-jo lead their lives as an employee at a brokerage firm, an employee at her pare...

• KNF Award at International Film Festival Rotterdam

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2021
• 20min

Two drunken laborers interrupt a much-awaited family trip. Every time the goodnatured husband accepts their request, the wife grows more upset, and these strange people become scarier. This thrilling genre film contains gratifying...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2021
• 100min

In 1991, the issue of "comfort women" was raised for the first time through the testimony of the late Kim Hak-sun. One of the first reporters in Japan to write an article about her testimony was Uemura Takashi of The Asahi Shimbun...