A Window on Asian Cinema

• Brillante Ma MENDOZA
• Philippines/Japan
• 2021
• 110min

Disability is not a subject to overcome but to be embraced. Nao Tsuyama dreams of becoming a professional boxer. However, being an handicapped person with a prosthetic leg due to a...

Wide Angle

• Hemant KUDALE
• India
• 2021
• 23min

Vitthal, a sixteen-year-old boy, earns money to support his poor family in the countryside by taking care of cows. He wants to visit his dying mother, but his cold-hearted employer...

New Currents

• Rajdeep PAUL,Sarmistha MAITI
• India
• 2021
• 125min

At 6 am on June 21, a doctor in the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic meets a woman clad in a protective suit during his morning jog. After ignoring the woman’s pleas to see a pa...

Wide Angle

• Zhanfei SONG
• China/United Kingdom
• 2021
• 21min

During the spring break, Qizhe returns to his hometown to relax, but finds himself distracted by his mother’s constant lecturing. Eventually his sexual identity is discovered, a se...

Korean Cinema Today

• Kyungrae KIM
• Korea
• 2021
• 73min

The protagonist, a film director, prepares to start a new project. He visits the home of a woman with whom he appears to be friends, following a failed romance. The man tells the w...

Wide Angle

• Yong Chao LEE
• Taiwan/Myanmar
• 2021
• 79min

RAIN IN 2020 is a seven-year documentary about the struggles of Ah-Tian, a young jade miner in Myanmar, and his family. There are three things that make life difficult for A...

Wide Angle

• Zhi-Teng ZHANG
• Taiwan
• 2021
• 20min

A middle-aged man about to be divorced stops by home to pick up his golf bag. He leaves with the key. A typhoon arrives and blows torrential rain through the windows he has left op...

Wide Angle

• Jihoo LEE
• Korea
• 2021
• 19min

Upon arriving in Seoul for college entrance exam prep classes, Seoyun decides to visit her older sister, who had long severed contact with her family. At her sister's apartment,...

Wide Angle

• Yu-Lun SHIH
• Taiwan
• 2021
• 116min

On a winter night in 2002, a couple in their early 20s is breaking up atop a bridge, when the woman falls down. Is it a suicide or accidental death? The man asks a friend to call a...

Wide Angle

• So-e PARK
• Korea
• 2021
• 5min

"Do you think I’m lying?" A woman relays her incredible childhood experience. The strange paper talismans she’d seen in her grandmother’s motel; bells ring and a shamanic ritual be...