Wide Angle

• France,Cambodia
• 2020
• 89min

Irradiated is a new film of director Panh, who has recorded the history of atrocious violence, especially the memory of massacres through his previous works such as S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine (2003) and The Missing Picture...

• Berlinale Documentary Award at Berlin International Film Festival In Competition

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2020
• 108min

When Bindu returns home on her way to work to retrieve something she’d forgotten, her eight-month-old daughter Pinki and the nanny Sannamma are missing, and her house is full of smoke. Frantically Bindu spends the whole day lookin...

New Currents

• India,United States
• 2020
• 100min

Sixteen-year-old orphan Pachpan is a skilled pickpocket in a group of orphan pickpockets in a train station in Mumbai. Called by numbers rather than names, the boys have been abandoned by their parents to the merciless Sagar Bhai ...

Icons

• Israel,France
• 2020
• 99min

The protagonist of this film is the special club connected to a gallery in Haifa, a city in Israel with little discrimination. In the gallery, a photo exhibition is held under the theme of ‘Political Art,’ while in the club, Israe...

• Venice International Film Festival In Competition

World Cinema

• Hungary
• 2020
• 95min

A second feature by the Hungarian filmmaker Lili Horvat, whose debut film The Wednesday Child(2015) won an award at the Karlovy Vary IFF. A neurosurgeon falls in love with a fellow doctor she meets at a conference in the United St...

• Venice International Film Festival Venice Days

New Currents

• Azerbaijan,France
• 2020
• 86min

Bilesuvar begins with the passing images of a tasteless landscape in the suburbs of Azerbaijan. Soon, a young man enlisting in the military is spending boring days feeling an unknown future and his own uneasy presence. As the enli...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2020
• 15min

On behalf of her parents, Torans is summoned to her younger sister’s school. The principal tells her that her sister told her friend about a plan to commit suicide on her coming birthday. Toran falls in limbo not knowing how to re...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2020
• 111min

Aspiring actor Shota visits a nursing home near his hometown to teach acting classes. There he meets Takara, a young caregiver who has been working at the nursing home since leaving high school. One day, when Shota visits Takara a...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2020
• 114min

Many trekkers visit Oze, a wetland with breathtaking scenery. However, having a long and severe winter, the mountain lodges in Oze are only open from May to October. Vehicles are unable to pass through the wetlands; “botcah” (the ...

• 2019 AND BIFF Mecenat Fund

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Singapore
• 2020
• 88min

The 30-year-old Ah Bee lives a monotonous life with his mother. Just being fired from his office, he enrolls in Tiong Bahru Social Club to organize his life that was not praised by people around him and to pioneer his own future. ...