Special Program in Focus

• Lebanon
• 2021
• 127min

A Lebanese boy serving time as a violent offender sues his parents. His reason? "Because I was born." Zain, whose parents don’t even know his date of birth, has many younger siblings. When his sister Sahar is sold to their landlor...

• Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival

Special Program in Focus

• Korea
• 2021
• 112min

Five friends who graduated from a vocational school in Incheon have their own burdens. While Hae-joo, Tae-hee, and Chinese-Korean twins Bi-ryu and Ohn-jo lead their lives as an employee at a brokerage firm, an employee at her pare...

• KNF Award at International Film Festival Rotterdam

Special Program in Focus

• Korea
• 2021
• 100min

The Murmuring is the first film to raise the issue of the Japanese military "comfort women", which had not been officially discussed for nearly 50 years. Breaking the silence that had been forced on them at the intersection of imp...

Special Program in Focus

• Iran
• 2021
• 78min

Nine-year-old Hava is told that she is not allowed to go outside or hang out with boys now that she is a woman. Without understanding what it means, Hava enjoys the final days of her childhood measuring the shadows that surround a...

• New Currents Award at Busan International Film Festival

Special Program in Focus

• China
• 2021
• 128min

The news is busy reporting on hopes for economic development, but Yaoting’s family is in trouble. Her poor parents lose their jobs in Shenzhen and return to their hometown of Gansu. To support her family, Yaoting remains alone in ...

• Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard

Special Program in Focus

• China
• 2021
• 110min

From Uniform (2003) and Night Train (2007) to Black Coal, Thin Ice, Diao Yinan has drawn portraits of pitiable characters flung in front of the contradictions of life under the guise of crime thrillers. The reason we might see his...

• Golden Bear at Berlin International Film Festival

Special Program in Focus

• India
• 2021
• 113min

Left alone in the circus, Krishna arrives at the city of Bombay and lives with a gang of street children. On the other side of India′s leading tourist destination of Bombay lie the poverty-stricken reality of street children, brot...

• Camera d′Or at Cannes Film Festival

Special Program in Focus

• Indonesia/France/Malaysia/Thailand
• 2021
• 94min

A woman with a sword rides on a horse through the sandy desert. In her hand is the head of a man she beheaded. Director Mouly Surya twists the most masculine genre and sets it against the backdrop of the beautiful landscape of Sum...

• Cannes Film Festival Directors′ Fortnight, 2015 APM Project

Special Program in Focus

• Japan
• 2021
• 95min

Suzaku is an elegy to the gradual dissolution of a family and life in a remote timber village. When the economic downturn hits a small mountain village, many people leave, and the construction of the train tunnel that connects th...

• Camera d′Or at Cannes Film Festival

Special Program in Focus

• Hong Kong, China
• 2021
• 118min

Roger, a successful film producer, is simply dressed but has a fastidious taste, thanks to Ah Tao, who has been a housekeeper for his family for over 60 years. To Roger and his siblings, she is akin to a stepmother. When Ah Tao su...