Special Program in Focus

• Kar Wai WONG
• Hong Kong, China
• 2022
• 129min

2046, whose production began at around the same time as In the Mood for Love, feels like the latter’s sequel but does not remain in its shadow. In Hong Kong during th...

• Cannes Film Festival Competition

Korean Cinema Today

• Woo-ri BANG
• Korea
• 2022
• 119min

Yeondu (Noh Yoon-seo) asks her best friend Bora (Kim You-jung) to collect all the information she can about Baek Hyunjin (Park Jung-woo) while she is away in the U.S. for heart s...

Special Program in Focus

• Yujiro HARUMOTO
• Japan
• 2022
• 153min

A Balance is one of the most challenging Japanese independent films in recent years. Inspired by a true story, the film follows a female documentary filmmaker, Yuko, who is ...

• New Currents Award at BIFF

Wide Angle

• Guillaume SUON
• Cambodia/France
• 2022
• 30min

A young man makes a living by selling drugs in a back alley in Bordeaux. His mother visits him as a ghost. The world and time have changed, yet the connection between them is ete...

Korean Cinema Today

• Minju KIM
• Korea
• 2022
• 102min

A Letter from Kyoto is an outstanding family drama that depicts the stories of three sisters with different personalities and their mother. The film delicately builds up e...

Opening Film & Closing Film

• Kei ISHIKAWA
• Japan
• 2022
• 123min

A Man is the latest feature film by Ishikawa Kei, who received critical acclaim for his 2016 debut film, Traces of Sin (2016). An adaptation of Hirano Keiichiro’s awa...

• Venice Film Festival Orizzonti

New Currents

• Sam QUAH
• Malaysia
• 2022
• 104min

Three students from Jing Mu Girls’ Middle School go missing and turn up dead. Xiao Tong, a special education student with speech impairment, feels like someone is watching her. Dur...

World Cinema

• Ioseb "Soso" BLIADZE
• Germany/Georgia
• 2022
• 108min

Tina leaves her hometown and moves into a shared apartment. Her housemate is all the things Tina isn’t ? Megi speaks fluent English, loves to party and is determined to “leave th...

• Best Actress Award at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

Wide Angle

• Boram KIM
• Korea
• 2022
• 89min

The second feature by Kim Boram, following her 2017 film, For Vagina’s Sake, A Table for Two delves into the roots of the relationship between a daughter suffering from an...

New Currents

• Jeong-hong LEE
• Korea
• 2022
• 136min

Gi-hong is a carpenter who makes his living by taking on small interior work. He has become close to the young landlord and his wife and spends more time hanging out with them. Mea...