World Cinema

• United Kingdom
• 2021
• 120min

Julie is a young film student living in London. She comes from a privileged background and wants to make a film about a young boy and his mother in a much poorer part of the city. Between script pitches and camera setups, Julie ho...

• World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic at Sundance Film Festival

World Cinema

• United Kingdom
• 2021
• 107min

In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative older man, Julie begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction....

• Cannes Film Festival Directors′ Fortnight

Wide Angle

• China/United Kingdom
• 2021
• 21min

During the spring break, Qizhe returns to his hometown to relax, but finds himself distracted by his mother’s constant lecturing. Eventually his sexual identity is discovered, a secret that keeps him from being an otherwise perfec...

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• Portugal/France
• 2021
• 102min

Co-directed by Miguel Gomes and Maureen Fazendeiro, The Tsugua Diaries is a magical work filled with plain, private, and humorous scenes. 'Tsugua' backwards is August, thus The August Diaries. The story takes place over a pe...

• Cannes Film Festival Directors′ Fortnight

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2021
• 115min

A documentary directed by Inudo Isshin, known for Josee, the Tiger and the Fish and La Maison de Himiko, The Unnameable Dance shows the life and dance of Tanaka Min, an elderly dancer in his 70s, in a multifaceted and dynamic mann...

World Cinema

• Norway
• 2021
• 128min

Meet Julie. On the verge of thirty, she has gone through a succession of boyfriends, shifting her professions from medicine to psychology to photography to writing along the way. Commitment is an issue for her, and she is constant...

• Best Actress Award at Cannes Film Festival

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• Italy/France
• 2021
• 121min

Three Floors, Nanni Moretti′s fourtheenth film, and the first since My Mother (2015), is also the first film he has adapted instead rather than writing. The stage play by Israeli writer Eshkol Nevo has been relocated to Rome. The ...

• Cannes Film Festival in Competition

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2021
• 100min

Kyunghak is training to become a police officer, while his girlfriend, Hyejin, is searching for a job. Kyunghak is poor and takes a job as a deliveryman, putting off his future career plans for the time being, when he becomes resp...

World Cinema

• France
• 2021
• 109min

The plot of Titane is surprisingly simple: A woman, who has had a titanium plate planted in her head, following a car accident when she was a child, is suddenly seized with strange desires, and thus, becomes involved in a series o...

• Palme d′Or at Cannes Film Festival

Open Cinema

• Japan
• 2021
• 120min

After the TV animation series of the same title gained popularity, Tokyo Revengers was turned into a live-action film, which was released in Japan in July and became a hit. The protagonist is Takemichi, a young man who leads a hop...