A Window on Asian Cinema

• France/Singapore/Germany
• 2021
• 98min

Bassley has traveled all the way to Vietnam from Nigeria as a professional football player. One day he is injured and as a result, is expelled from the team. He cannot tell his family the truth because must find a way to continue ...

• Special Jury Prize at Berlin International Film Festival in Encounters Competition

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 2021
• 124min

Kaohsiung, Taiwan, is one of the areas that suffered the most from the February 28 incident in 1947. After the uprising against discrimination and the oppression of the Kuomintang ended with a disastrous massacre, people were bann...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Uzbekistan
• 2021
• 83min

Tengiz marries Madiyar, an only child, and is forced to conceive within a month of their marriage. At her mother-in-law’s insistence, she hops on a train to go to the hospital and visit her parents along the way. There she learns ...

New Currents

• Iran
• 2021
• 85min

1917 (2019) is the first to come to mind when discussing films that were completed without cuts. To amplify the realness of war, the entire movie is in one shot?it was filmed in uncut takes that are seamlessly connected to look li...

New Currents

• Korea
• 2021
• 140min

Sookyung lives with her daughter Yijung. They don′t quite get along, though. Sookyung is too hot tempered, while Yijung is slow and passive. After having a fight one day, Sookyung runs over Yijung, who thinks she did it on purpose...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2021
• 118min

Liu wants to sell his unprofitable travel agency business. One day, when one of his employees falls into a coma for a dubious reason, his family and relatives come to Liu, demanding a settlement. Meanwhile, Liu’s ex-wife Tao Qing,...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2021
• 18min

Eunsuk is a department store janitor whose only joy in life is listening to classical music in the innermost bathroom stall at work. To Eunsuk, who makes a strained move to a good school district for her daughter, her life is alwa...

World Cinema

• Finland
• 2021
• 83min

Jaakko, blind and disabled, is involved in a long-distance relationship with his girlfriend. When she needs him by her side, he takes a step out of his safe haven and crosses into a mysterious and dangerous world. Director Teemu N...

• Armany Beauty Audience Award at Venice International Film Festival

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2021
• 126min

The Book of Fish depicts the process of Jeong Yakjeon (Sul Kyung-gu) and fisherman Changdae (Byun John) interacting beyond their social status. Jeong Yakjeon wrote a dictionary of sea life called 'The Book of Fish' on Heuksa...

Special Program in Focus

• China
• 2021
• 93min

Lin, a documentary filmmaker from Beijing, finishes the screening of her new film in Tokyo and heads to Niigata Prefecture, where Kawabata Yasuwari wrote Snow Country. She recently split up with her long-time lover, Guiren. After ...

• Berlin International Film Fesetival Forum