New Currents

• Sharipa URAZBAYEVA
• Kazakhstan
• 2021
• 113min

Anar marries Marat and lives with him and his son Adil. Pregnant Anar requires care, as she is anemic and at a high risk of miscarriage. When Marat hastens their move to the countr...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kyoshi SUGITA
• Japan
• 2021
• 121min

Perhaps we could call this a milder version of a Hong Sangsoo film. Haruhara-san’s Recorder lacks something that a drama should have. Rather than telling the protagonist’s s...

• FID마르세유 대상, 연기상, 관객상

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Mansur ABDUKHALIKOV
• Uzbekistan
• 2021
• 83min

Tengiz marries Madiyar, an only child, and is forced to conceive within a month of their marriage. At her mother-in-law’s insistence, she hops on a train to go to the hospital and ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Teng-Yuan CHANG
• Taiwan
• 2021
• 148min

In 1996, a woman from rural Vietnam, Van Tue, immigrates to marry a Taiwanese man in search of a better life. Her husband earns a living as a construction worker. Her mother-in-law...

Wide Angle

• Jeonhan KIM
• Korea
• 2021
• 70min

As someone once said, the reason there aren’t films about writers is because there would be nothing to see. Who would want to watch someone sit at the desk and move his fingers all...

World Cinema

• Constanza FERNÁNDEZ
• Chile
• 2021
• 108min

Doctor Sergio Graf becomes a "difficult" patient overnight, and finds himself fighting against an unrelenting health care system. His journey is one of physical deterioration. His ...

Wide Angle

• Seyeon OH
• Korea
• 2021
• 87min

A teenage girl who appears on a TV show as an idol singer′s fan calls herself a ′seongdeok′ (successful fan), because her idol appeared on the same program. Years later, the same i...

Special Program in Focus

• Ruijun LI
• 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...

• 칸영화제 주목할만한시선

Special Program in Focus

• Fang SONG
• China
• 2021
• 93min

Lin, a documentary filmmaker from Beijing, finishes the screening of her new film in Tokyo and heads to Niigata Prefecture, where Kawabata Yasuwari wrote Snow Country. She r...

• 베를린영화제 포럼

Special Program in Focus

• Xiaogang GU
• China
• 2021
• 151min

Gu Xiaogang expanded an autobiographical documentary about his hometown of Fuyang and his family amid the development frenzy into the feature film Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountai...