A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2020
• 101min

In need of money, Saguna quits college to work sugarcane fields with her family. Tens of thousands of people work the fields, but there are no bathrooms for workers. Menstruating women have to take days off and pay a fine for miss...

New Currents

• Nepal
• 2020
• 96min

Clever and ambitious Bidya is a thirteen-year-old girl from a rural village in Nepal. She has a gambler for a father, a troublemaker brother named Basanta, and a mother who is determined to provide her a better life. She despera...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2020
• 87min

“What kind of person do you think former President Park Geunhye is?” Sohn Seokhee, a journalist, gives a clear and sharp answer that he “shares the common ideas that people in our country have.” That common idea has led millions t...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2020
• 85min

Captive is a road movie about Vasanti, recently released from prison and on her way to find her family, and ex-con Chandu. The typical development of their relationship, from animosity to friendship to love, creates emotional reve...

Wide Angle

• Iran
• 2020
• 87min

A young boy tells the story of his failed suicide bombing attack as if it was a heroic episode. “If the bomb had exploded, no one would have survived.” “Did you hope so?” “Yes, I will go back someday and kill everyone while I comm...

New Currents

• Armenia,Germany,Netherlands
• 2020
• 91min

An innocent girl in a village is bullied by her family and villagers for her poor behavior, and she is called Chnchik that means stupid instead of her real name. Her mistakes become a neighbor′s laughter, and her parents, who are ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2020
• 122min

CICADA is the feature film debut for director Lee Chungryoul who directed the documentary Old Partner (2009). The story revolves around a master of the traditional funeral play called Jindo Dasiraegi. One day, his daughter returns...

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• United States
• 2020
• 275min

Who would wonder what public officers at city hall do? Director Frederic Wiseman filmed the times they spend doing their job. Though it isn’t much different from what we expect, it turns out to be quite inspiring. The Boston City ...

• Venice International Film Festival

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2020
• 61min

Gunsan is a city of outlanders that has experienced waves of deterioration and revivals. Gunsan, a sparse area prior to 1910, opened doors for workers from all over Korea after it was exploited for rice harvesting during the Japan...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2020
• 79min

High school students in their prime time are forced to grow up pure, honest, and sexually upright in Catholic high schools. Hypocritically, however, they spend time knowing that the reality they will face is not so. Several large ...