World Cinema

• Marie KREUTZER
• Austria/Luxembourg/Germany/France
• 2022
• 114min

Marie Kreutzer, who has been a prolific filmmaker in the past few years, has returned with a new feature that is a period drama. Inserting contemporary ballad music and boldly dr...

• Best Performance Award at Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard

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• David CRONENBERG
• Canada/Greece/France/United Kingdom
• 2021
• 108min

The film takes a deep dive into the not-so-distant future where humankind is learning to adapt to its synthetic surroundings. This evolution moves humans beyond their natural state...

• Cannes Film Festival Competition

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• Dario ARGENTO
• Italy/France
• 2022
• 86min

As if he celebrates his fifty years of career, Dario Argento returns to the giallo film, the genre that made him an international celebrity. On a bright summer day in Rome, Diana (...

• Berlin International Film Festival Berlinale Special

Flash Forward

• Laura BAUMEISTER
• Nicaragua/Mexico/Netherlands/Germany/France/Norway
• 2022
• 91min

Eleven-year-old Maria and her mother, Lilibeth, live on the fringe of Nicaragua’s biggest garbage dump. They survive by recycling waste and breeding puppies. They live in abject ...

• Toronto International Film Festival Discovery

Special Program in Focus

• Verena PARAVEL,Lucien CASTAING-TAYLOR
• France/Switzerland
• 2022
• 118min

Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, the directors of Leviathan, head to operating rooms in hospitals with the miniature surgical cameras that can enter people’s bodie...

• Cannes Film Festival Directors′ Fortnight

Wide Angle

• Suchana SAHA
• India
• 2022
• 4min

A letter to herself from a girl who finds herself in a chaotic world. An inner journey mixed with various emotions is expressed through animation.

Wide Angle

• Siyi CHEN
• United States/China
• 2022
• 65min

A filmmaker daughter studying in a foreign country belatedly learns of her mother’s cancer. Her mother has hidden it from her, lest she worry, but the daughter feels upset. The m...

• 2019 AND BIFF Mecenat Fund

Jiseok

• Anshul CHAUHAN
• Japan
• 2022
• 99min

Seven years ago, a high school student was killed by a friend. The parents of the dead girl are now divorced, and the father drowns his anger and sorrow in alcohol. Then one day, t...

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• Chan-wook PARK
• Korea
• 2022
• 138min

Helmer Park Chan-wook’s eleventh feature film, Decision to Leave, follows a detective Hae-jun (Park Hae-il) and a prime suspect Seo-rae (Tang Wei) who is investigated for mu...

• Best Director Award at Cannes Film Festival

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Mahesh NARAYANAN
• India
• 2022
• 107min

Hareesh and Reshimi are a married couple who have moved from a city in Kerala to Delhi. Working at a factory that produces medical gloves, they are preparing to move abroad. One da...

• Locarno International Film Festival Concorso Internazionale