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• Mouly SURYA
• 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 agai...

• 2015 APM 프로젝트, 칸영화제 감독주간

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• Samira MAKHMALBAF
• Iran
• 2021
• 85min

The memorable opening sequence shows a group of men each with a black chalkboard on his back. The blackboards, which should be attached to classroom walls, become the most dynamic ...

• 칸영화제 심사위원상

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• Naomi KAWASE
• 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, ...

• 칸영화제 황금카메라상

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• Marziyeh MESHKINY
• 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 h...

• 부산국제영화제 뉴 커런츠상

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• Nadine LABAKI
• 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 siblin...

• 칸영화제 심사위원상

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• Jae-eun JEONG
• 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 emp...

• 로테르담영화제 KNF상

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• Ann HUI
• 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 sib...

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• Youngjoo BYUN
• 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 silenc...

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• Mira NAIR
• 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...

• 칸영화제 황금카메라상

World Cinema

• Rebecca HALL
• United States
• 2021
• 99min

Irene Redfield, a refined, upper-class woman, finds breezy refuge from a hot summer day in the grand tearoom of New York City′s Drayton Hotel. Across the room, she spots a blond wo...