World Cinema

• Switzerland
• 2021
• 99min

With The Girl and the Spider, the Zurcher brothers have chosen to build on themes and elements from their previous works. Characters go back and forth between narrow rooms. Sound hovers like a fog over the sets. Children, cats, an...

• Best Director Encounters at Berlin International Film Festival

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2021
• 113min

Haeyoung (Kim Hyeyoon) is a hopeless girl. She has tattoos all over her arms. She uses vulgar language, and is even violent. She is a terrible troublemaker. She does not have a mother and lives with her father (Park Hyukkwon), who...

• 2014 ACF Script Development Fund

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• Italy
• 2021
• 136min

Paolo Sorrentino’s latest film The Hand of God, reminiscent of Federico Fellini’s Amarcord (1973), is distinctly different from his previous works. The rumor that the legendary soccer player Diego Maradona will transfer to SSC Nap...

• Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize, Best Young Actor at Venice International Film Festival

World Cinema

• Romania/Belgium/France
• 2021
• 85min

Following the success of her award-winning animated films, Crulic: The Path to Beyond (2011), The Magic Mountain (2015) and Marona′s Fantastic Tale (2019), Anca Damian returns with a post-modern re-interpretation of the Robinson C...

Special Program in Focus

• Korea
• 2021
• 100min

The Murmuring is the first film to raise the issue of the Japanese military "comfort women", which had not been officially discussed for nearly 50 years. Breaking the silence that had been forced on them at the intersection of imp...

World Cinema

• Spain
• 2021
• 86min

Mohamed is a Moroccan young immigrant looking for a job in Spain. He becomes the assistant of Valero, a plumber, but soon tensions develop between the calm and silent Mohamed and the hot-tempered Valero, who dislikes foreigners. M...

• Best Actor Award in Locarno Film Festival

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• New Zealand/Australia
• 2021
• 128min

It is 1925, and the Burbank brothers, Phil and George, are wealthy ranchers in Montana. At the Red Mill restaurant, where they have stopped on their way to market, the brothers meet Rose, the widowed proprietress, and her impressi...

• Silver Lion - Award for Best Director at Venice International Film Festival

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2021
• 132min

Naina, a criminal psychology professor, is sexually assaulted in a slum she visits to help the daughter of a school custodian embroiled in a case of domestic violence and infanticide. Upon surviving the attack that leaves her coll...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2021
• 115min

Influenced by his late mother, Dhruv has become a wildlife zoologist. He goes to conduct field research to study mammals at the Kodaikanal Wildlife Sanctuary in Tamil Nadu. It is essential to hire a local guide to navigate through...

Wide Angle

• Indonesia
• 2021
• 18min

A young boy, Sura, lives alone and lonely in a fishing village. He earns money from chores while waiting for his father, who may never return. One day, he finds a broken sex doll washed ashore, and tries to fix it. (PARK Sungho)