New Currents

• Singapore
• 2003
• 93min

New Currents

• Japan
• 2003
• 110min

In Japanese independent films, limits don′t seem to exist, like in a wide mud flat. No matter how deep you dig, the bottom is always impossible to reach. As such, sometimes people would get their feet hurt on the street, but also ...

New Currents

• Iran
• 2003
• 75min

Young director Alireza Amini has been deeply interested in loneliness and the sense of alienation of people in deserted places. Letters in the Wind, his debut feature, was a story of soldiers consoling themselves by listening to r...

New Currents

• Hong Kong
• 2003
• 100min

New Currents

• India
• 2003
• 84min

Director Manish Jha says that if the proportion of males and females keeps shifting the way it is today, India will face a horrible future. The imaginary India portrayed in Matrubhoomi: A Nation without Women is a nation where onl...

New Currents

• China
• 2003
• 92min

Everybody craves power, albeit to different degrees. In a society where power moves only hierarchically, the symbols of power must be constantly reproduced. Uniform tells a story of one man who happens to come across a symbol of p...

New Currents

• China
• 2003
• 75min

Living a tranquil life in the serene and beautiful city of Hangzhou, Zhuzi and his fiancee Linshan are content. However with the uncharacteristic early arrival of the cold rainy season, Zhuzi suddenly becomes uncomfortable and ext...

New Currents

• Taiwan
• 2003
• 82min

In many Taiwanese films, Taipei has been described as a gloomy city. The Missing is another Taiwanese film to describe this city as a dystopia. Instead of a complicated narrative, the film describes a picture of dystopia through i...

New Currents

• Iran
• 2003
• 95min

Living in a neigbourhood of immigrants, Azerbajanu young Nazar is obliged to divorce his wife, Reyhaneh, by his insiting relatives. The only thing he can do for his ex-wife is to pay her marriage portion by installments, but he fa...

New Currents

• China
• 2003
• 102min

A young peasant named Yasui needs a fortune to save his younger brother, Yachung, who is in prison. Since Yasui is a poor day laborer, he has no way of making enough money to bail out his brother. Then, a pastor and a high school ...