Special Program in Focus

• Hong Kong, China
• 2022
• 97min

Yiu-fai and and Po-wing, who comes to Buenos Aires from Hong Kong in 1995, have an on-and-off relationship. They love and long for each other one moment, but they are unable to stand each other the next; they’re afraid that their ...

• Best Director Award at Cannes Film Festival

World Cinema

• France/Belgium
• 2022
• 83min

Philippe Faucon’s latest film Harkis deals with an issue that is taboo both in France and Algeria: the Algerians who fought in the French Army during the Algerian War. This group of armed people with no military titles were pro...

• Cannes Film Festival Directors′ Fortnight

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2022
• 129min

Ki-woo (Jung Ilwoo) is homeless. He drifts around highway rest stops with his pregnant wife, a young son, and a young daughter. Young-sun (Ra Miran) feels sorry for them. Highway Family builds a bridge between Kiwoo’s family wh...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Denmark/Germany/Sweden/France
• 2022
• 118min

Ali Abbasi, whose film Border (2019) was invited to the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival, is an Iranian director who emigrated to Sweden and studied at the National Film School of Denmark. Unlike Shelley (2016...

• Best Actress Award at Cannes Film Festival

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kyrgyzstan
• 2022
• 82min

Damir is being threatened in an abandoned factory. Loan sharks even go to his home, where his pregnant wife, Cholpon, and their young daughter are. The loan sharks harass the family, even to the point of writing “home for sale” on...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong, China
• 2022
• 113min

On the evening of the family’s traditional winter solstice dinner, Chun and Ling, their daughter Ki and son Yeung, and Ling’s brother Ming gather at Ling’s mother’s house. Tired of Chun’s incompetence, losing his job when they’re ...

Wide Angle

• Sweden/Norway/France/Germany
• 2022
• 104min

Marusya is crying at her friend Kimi’s funeral. Their relationship over a decade has come to an end, and this is where the story starts. Maruysa and Kimi are rebels against the status quo and partners in crime, struggling to liv...

• Cannes Film Festival in ACID Cannes

World Cinema

• Belgium/France/Costa Rica
• 2022
• 100min

Eva (Daniela Marin Navarro), a sixteen-year-old girl, is confused as her parents divorce. She lives with her mother, a little sister, and a cat, but her heart often clings onto her father, Martin (Reinaldo Amien Gutierrez). She ...

• Best Director Award, Best Actress Award, Best Actor Award at Locarno International Film Festival

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2022
• 27min

The father, who has been battling a disease for ten years, and the mother, exhausted from caring for him, return home. It looks as though Sujin, who was recently fired and planning to go on a working holiday, would have to stay ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2022
• 118min

Yitian delivers weather and traffic information on radio. She is a single mom raising her son alone in a big city, but she prides herself in having led a great life in general. Yet in the relationship with her troublemaker son, ex...