Gala Presentation

• China
• 2020
• 141min

Hong Kong in the 1920s. Weilong′s family found asylum in Hong Kong due to rumors of war, leaves back for Shanghai. To continue studying in Hong Kong, Weilong visits her father’s estranged rich sister Liang. Liang lives a bourgeois...

• Venice International Film Festival

World Cinema

• NewZealand
• 2020
• 87min

As Freddy, the guileless and hapless narrator of Lowdown Dirty Criminals observes: “When you cross over a line, you may never come back”. Leaving his dead-end pizza delivery job behind, Freddy stumbles and bumbles his way through ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China,France
• 2020
• 134min

MAMA is a week-long chronicle of a family seen through the eyes of a 12-year-old girl. In the 1990s, Xiaoxian lives in a mountainous village in Chongqing, China, with three younger sisters, whom she sometimes takes to school. Her ...

• Venice International Film Festival Venice Days

World Cinema

• France,Belgium
• 2020
• 78min

Quentin Dupieux′s sense of wit extends from a car tire transforming into a serial killer (Rubber, 2010) to falling in love with a suede leather jacket (Deerskin, 2019). This time, it is about a gigantic fly. One day, two friends f...

• Venice International Film Festival

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2020
• 95min

A far remote rural village with green fields. As Matto is responsible for the livelihood of his wife and two young daughters, he daily takes a long distance journey to the city to work as a construction labor. The most important a...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2020
• 104min

Soo-hyuk (Bae Soo-bin) and Lee-young (Cha Soo-yeon), are a fantastic couple working at a school in a village. They have secrets but their strong love yields to nothing. However, the secrets are revealed by chance, spread quickly t...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2020
• 98min

Ghalib is a truck driver who spends most of his time on the road. The camera emphasizes close ups of Ghalib sitting behind the wheel. He is a vagabond who doesn’t need nor has any affection for a home. The back pain that he sudden...

• Venice International Film Festival Orrizzonti

Icons

• Japan
• 2020
• 372min

In the early 1940s, strange symptoms appear in the people of Minamata. People are having convulsions all over their bodies and tongues are eventually made mute. The government treated individuals whose physical functions had colla...

Gala Presentation

• United States
• 2020
• 116min

A film about a Korean-American family in search of hope, Minari won the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize for the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. The entire cast moves the audience to tears in t...

• U.S. Grand Jury Prize, Audience Award at Sundance Film Festival

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2020
• 108min

On May 13, 1969, 1,000 students from Tokyo University await Yukio Mishima. The air in the auditorium is taut with tension. The invitation inciting students belonging to radical movements by the right-wing nationalist writer Mishim...