World Cinema

• Julia MURAT
• Brazil/France
• 2022
• 100min

Simone is training to work as a public defender for women who are victims of domestic violence. However, as dusk falls she turns into an online porn star to work her way through ...

• Golden Leopard at Locarno International Film Festival

Special Program in Focus

• Gianfranco ROSI
• Italy/France
• 2013
• 95min

Gianfranco Rosi spent two years on and around the Grande Raccordo Anulare (GRA), a ring-shaped road that encircles the city of Rome. Rosi’s method, which involves getting to know t...

• Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival

Wide Angle

• Dongwoo LEE
• Korea
• 2022
• 156min

The film starts with a caption that reads: “I began to think about making a documentary.” It is, however, not about making a film. To figure out what it is truly about, it’s bett...

Flash Forward

• Alice DIOP
• France
• 2022
• 122min

Saint Omer is the first narrative feature film by documentarist Alice Diop. With this work, Diop, who is known for her films about immigrants and working-class men, refocus...

• Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize at Venice Film Festival

Wide Angle

• Mincheol WANG
• Korea
• 2022
• 121min

Wang Mincheol, the director of Garden, Zoological (2018), has returned with Sanctuary. In Garden, Zoological, he observed the zookeepers at the Cheongju Zoo,...

Midnight Passion

• Joko ANWAR
• Indonesia
• 2022
• 119min

Several years after they managed to save themselves from a terrible incident in which they lost their mother and the youngest sibling, Ian, Rini and her younger siblings, Toni and ...

World Cinema

• Patricia MAZUY
• France/Belgium
• 2021
• 115min

Bowling Saturne Patricia Mazuy’s follow-up to her successful Paul Sanchez is Back! (2018) offers a unique take on the thriller genre: A police officer, Guillaume, a...

• Locarno International Film Festival Concorso Internazionale

Gala Presentation

• Pietro MARCELLO
• France/Italy/Germany
• 2022
• 105min

Following Martin Eden(2019), Pietro Marcello adds another unique work of lyricism and romanticism to his filmography. An adaptation of Alexander Green’s Russian fairy tale <...

• Opening Film at Cannes Film Festival Directors′ Fortnight

Jiseok

• Hadi MOHAGHEGH
• Iran
• 2022
• 90min

In a world that seems devoid of goodness, Scent of Wind is a film that reaffirms our faith in humanity. A disabled man lives with his paralyzed son in a remote Iranian villa...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Farkhat SHARIPOV
• Kazakhstan
• 2022
• 74min

When Masha receives a personal message from Ramil, a social media celebrity, she decides to meet him. Ramil takes money from a middle-aged man and borrows a luxury apartment to thr...

• Grand Prix of the Generation 14plus International Jury for the Best Feature Film at Berlin International Film Festival