Film Festival Showcase

Set in France during the Second World War, a young German man who has escaped the camps falls in love with the wife of a dead author whose identity he has assumed.

A man travels to war-torn Beirut in 1982 to stage a play — Antigone — amid the chaos of conflict.

Depicting the rich ethnographic culture of India's Irula tribe, the film exposes their vulnerability and how they are easily trapped into bonded labour and other social evils.

In 1930s Türkiye, the Republic Day Ball unfolds in a coal-mining town. Among the newcomers — a mine engineer, his wife, his younger sister and an unwanted household member — the film examines jealousy, desire, sibling rivalry, social class and gender.

A portrait of religious hypocrisy and superstition in a rural Muslim farming community in Bengal.

Two intertwined Bengali stories explore memory, intimacy and the quiet revelations of ordinary lives.

A landmark of Sri Lankan cinema following an old soldier adrift in a society that has moved on without him.

Orson Welles's nightmarish vision of Josef K., arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority for a crime that is never revealed to him.