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Written and directed by Austrian filmmaker Marie Kreutzer, Corsage is a fictional period film set in the late 1870s. It premiered at the Un Certain Regard section of the 75th Cannes Film Festival.

Director Tayfun Pirselimoglu adapts one of his books for the first time. Based on a 2014 novel of the same name, Kerr follows a middle-aged man named Can.

Whenever Hollywood played “Cowboys and Indians,” it did not look good for the Indians. Sure, they were written into scripts.

The director and screenwriter of the highly acclaimed Kazakh drama Goliath, Adilkhan Yerzhanov, has been a two-time participant in the Cannes Film Festival's Official Program (The Owners, 2014, Official Selection, and The Gentle Indifference of the World, 2018, Un Certain Regard). He won an Asia Pacific Screen award in 2019 for Achievement in Directing for A Dark, Dark Man.

The Silence of the Lambs was a groundbreaking film in many ways. Initially released (ironically) on Valentine’s Day in 1991, the film defied both commercial and critical expectations during the month widely considered, at the time, Hollywood’s “dumping ground.

Perth-born writer-director Aron Attiwell, 22, has taken on the formidable task of educating young Australians about the Holocaust through his film Fading Numbers. As the number of Holocaust survivors is diminishing, Attiwell understands the importance of younger generations’ hearing firsthand from those who experienced the horrors of genocide about both the experience itself and the lessons that can be learned from it.

The story centers on a 25-year-old woman, Freddie (Park Ji-min), who was born in South Korea but speaks no Korean. She is looking for her birth parents after being adopted more than 20 years ago.

Actor-filmmaker Radhakrishnan Parthiban’s latest movie, Shadow of the Night, is the portrait of one man and his dark, disturbing life, in which Fate is always turning the tables on him. A hapless man named Nandu, played by director Parthipan, is a person who continually encounters failure and disappointment.

A dark coming-of-age thriller, The Box is the latest offering from Venezuelan director Lorenzo Vigas, and stars Hatzin Navarrete, who marks his acting debut. Navarrete plays Hatzin, a teenager from Mexico City who travels to a remote desert town north of Mexico to search for his father’s remains, which he believes to be buried in a hidden mass grave.

In 1993, an actor got an award for an invisible role. If that sounds highly unusual, it isn’t, considering who the actor was: the incomparable Robin Williams.