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• Korea
• 2021
• 67min

Hong’s film unfolds as a series of distinct and separate episodes. In the first one, Youngho (Shin Seokho) visits his father′s oriental clinic for something important, but the two do not face each other properly until the end of t...

• Berlin International Film Festival in Competition

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan/China
• 2021
• 98min

Noh is a classical Japanese dance-drama. INU-OH is a film about a real life master Noh dancer from the 14th century. In this film, real people and fictional histories converge with traditional Japanese Noh and modern music, in whi...

• Venice International Film Festival Orrizzonti

Flash Forward

• United States
• 2021
• 94min

Seasoned jockey Jackson has weathered decades of races on the riding circuit, but he now finds himself facing what could be his last season as his health deteriorates. With the help of Ruth and a promising new horse, Jackson start...

• U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Best Actor at Sundance Film Festival

Special Program in Focus

• China
• 2021
• 110min

In Bi Gan’s cinematic world, there is no use to divide time into the past, present, and future?meaning spaces that presuppose different temporality can be connected, juxtaposed, or coexist. The simultaneous existence, or state, of...

• Best Emerging Director at Locarno Film Festival

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2021
• 102min

The life of Kim Jong-boon, who has been a peddler in Wangshimni for 50 years, is admirable. At the age of 83, she no longer has to earn a living at her street stall, but she keeps working because she still has customers. The same ...

Wide Angle

• Germany/India
• 2021
• 82min

During the morning commute, trains in Mumbai, India, are like trains from hell. As if they’re the last trains on earth, hordes of people jump in through the closing doors, while those unable to get in hang onto the doors. Thankful...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea/France
• 2021
• 101min

The voice heard over the opening shots of Last Film is that of director Jeon Soo-il. Stern and decisive, it is the kind of voice that is not easily forgotten. Through his filmography that spans from Wind Echoing in My Being (1997)...

Open Cinema

• United Kingdom
• 2021
• 117min

A naive young woman, Eloise, is passionate about fashion design. She moves to London to attend fashion school and pursue her dream. While she is not getting along with her sarcastic roommate and other students at school, somehow s...

• Venice International Film Festival

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• Chad/France/Belgium/Germany
• 2021
• 88min

Many films that deal with African culture mention the barbaric practices to which women and girls are subjected. Lingui, The Sacred Bonds, a story of a Muslim woman Amina, is one of them. Her pregnant daughter is expelled from sch...

• Cannes Film Festival in Competition

World Cinema

• France
• 2021
• 100min

A SADC Prize winner at the 74th Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Magnetic Beats is the story about the fate of two brothers living in the French countryside during the early ’80s. Both are deep into the New Wave music, bearing with the...

• SACD award in Cannes′ Directors′ Fortnight