Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2021
• 112min

After her husband dies suddenly, Minhee (Yoo Da-in) goes to Jeju Island to live in her husband′s hometown. It is the place where she can meet people with whom she can share the memory of her husband and the house he cherished. As ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2021
• 90min

Discomfort becomes something more disturbing when a comfortable space is threatened. The Contorted House is an orthodox house horror story that contains bizarre events happening in the new house. A family moves to a quiet and isol...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2021
• 120min

The Conversation is the second feature film of Director Kim Dukjoong, who received critical praise for his film, The Education, which was invited to the New Currents at the Busan International Film Festival in 2019. His second fea...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2021
• 110min

Police are baffled by a case in which it seems that a corpse has committed a murder, but reporter Im Jinhee (Uhm Jiwon) gets a call from a person who confesses to being the real culprit of the crime. The murderer warns Im that the...

Special Program in Focus

• Iran
• 2021
• 78min

Nine-year-old Hava is told that she is not allowed to go outside or hang out with boys now that she is a woman. Without understanding what it means, Hava enjoys the final days of her childhood measuring the shadows that surround a...

• New Currents Award at Busan International Film Festival

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iraq/Germany/Qatar/Kurdistan
• 2021
• 89min

Kurdish director Shawkat Amin Korki won the New Currents Award at BIFF with his film Kick Off (2009). His latest work The Exam, which comes after a long hiatus since Memories on Stone (2014), was invited to compete at the Karlovy ...

• FIPRESCI Award at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, 2018 APM Project

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2021
• 130min

Single mom Pin-Wen is a capable career woman who lives with her teenage daughter, Xiao Jing. On the day Pin-Wen is informed of a salary cut due to the company’s worsening circumstances, she receives a call from Xiao Jing during a ...

• Venice International Film Festival Orrizzonti

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2021
• 101min

On an isolated farm in what appears to be the 1800's, a family is ruled by their tyrannical father who preaches fire and brimstone, and their devout mother who demands obedience. Their father exploits their fear of a punishing ...

Wide Angle

• United States
• 2021
• 93min

At the dawn of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, New York was one of the cities where infection rates exploded and the morality rate skyrocketed. The First Wave follows the stories of people who faced grave situations caused by the C...

Icons

• United States
• 2021
• 107min

A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional twentieth century French city brings to life a collection of stories published in The French Dispatch Magazine. The film is inspired by Wes And...

• Cannes Film Festival in Competition