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The Young Mother′s HomeA new film from the Dardenne brothers, who have never stopped walking towards hope, The Young Mother′s Home tells the story of five teenage single mothers living together in a shelter. Ariane, heavily pregnant, searches for the mo...
Special Program in Focus
This Is Not a FilmFor a director banned from filmmaking for twenty years and sentenced to six years in prison, house arrest is tantamount to a death sentence for creativity. However, following the international success of The Circle (2000) and Crim...
Special Program in Focus
Three Colours: BlueAmong the Three Colours trilogy, which encapsulates Krzysztof Kieslowski′s body of work, Blue and Red particularly stand out for their special acclaim. Juliette Binoche, who had already built a reputation through her collaboration...
Wide Angle
Throughout These CagesAfter the father’s death, the mother and son are left alone together. Following his father’s will, the son tries to remodel their old house, but the mother does not welcome his efforts. The trauma etched into the items and the spa...
Special Program in Focus
Tie Xi Qu: West of the TracksHere begins the myth of Wang Bing, the symbolic face of 21st century Asian documentary cinema. He captures the lives of Chinese laborers and their families, as they are swept up, pushed around, and cast aside by the turbulent indu...
Vision
TigerWorking at a men-only massage shop and hopping between gay porn auditions, Tiger heads to his hometown one day after hearing his father is critically ill. His father intends to leave the house to his son and the dental clinic to h...
Korean Cinema Today
Time of CinemaWhat is cinema? What does the theater mean to us? The omnibus film Time of Cinema, composed of two shorts, explores diverse ways in which films, theaters, and audiences form relationships. Director Lee Jongpil’s Chimpanzee uses an...
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Two ProsecutorsThe latest drama by Sergei Loznitsa, a master documentarian known for chronicling modern history, was screened in the Competition section at the Cannes Film Festival. The film is adapted from a novella by physicist Georgy Demidov,...
Competition
Two Seasons, Two StrangersOne summer, a woman from the city has a chance encounter with a man visiting his mother’s quiet seaside hometown. One winter, a scriptwriter in a slump seeks out the innkeeper who tends a remote lodge alone in snow-covered mountai...
Vision
Two voices into an echoIn the opening, the camera stares intently at an ear. This curved bodily organ, with its inner and outer structures, resembles a cave the closer you look. The woman is sensitive to listening. When her lover pleads to overcome thei...