Recipient of the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize winner at Venice Film Festival this year, the film is a richly compassionate, emotional and detailed drama of family secrets in the wartime Italian countryside.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste delivers a career-best performance as Pansy, a woman battling grief, rage, and disconnection in Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths, three decades after their collaboration on Secrets and Lies. 

Shot entirely in secret, Mohammad Rasoulof’s searing drama depicts a man’s growing paranoia around encroaching state repression, whilst his family’s increasingly anti-patriarchal conviction at home threatens his carefully constructed public life.

Shady antiques dealer Norio (NAKAI Kiichi) and talented-but-impoverished potter Sasuke (SASAKI Kuranosuke) team up to con respectable connoisseurs out of their money in this comedy crowd-pleaser with a unique focus on Japanese antiques dealership and Japan’s most revered tea master.

Police PR employee MORIGUCHI Izumi’s (SUGISAKI Hana) best friend is murdered in the midst of a major police misconduct scandal. Izumi is determined to find the killer, but the police force’s secrets run deep, and Izumi’s search for justice uncovers far more than she bargained for in this suspenseful mystery-thriller.

The latest film from Hong Sangsoo reunites Kim Minhee and Kwon Haehyo in an autumnal tale of desire, self-expression and the inescapable nature of the past.