New Currents

• Iraq
• 2010
• 76min

[The Quarter of Scarecrows] exposes the misery and sorrow of war through the thickets of symbolic imagery. The land where the years of the Iran-Iraq war left its scars attracts a troop of crows. Worried for his crops, a farm owner...

New Currents

• China
• 2010
• 112min

[The Old Donkey] recollects the meaning of land to an older generation of Chinese who lived through rough patches of history. 84-year-old rural villager Old Ma is also called “Old Donkey” for his habit of riding a donkey at all ti...

New Currents

• Vietnam,Singapore
• 2010
• 113min

This movie is based on Boundless Rice Field, a novel by Nguyen Thi Ngoc Tu, winner of the Asian Literature Award in 2007. Vu and his children Dien and Nuong raise ducks and live on a boat in the Mekong River. One day, Dien saves S...

New Currents

• China
• 2010
• 120min

A cinema about cinema, [My Spectacular Theatre] grants viewers a warm and moving emotion. A pirated DVD dealer, Chen Yu, meets the people who change his life forever when he enters a theater for the blind while running from police...

New Currents

• Korea
• 2010
• 127min

Jeon Seung-chul’s citizen registration number starts with 125, branding him as a North Korean defector. It is difficult to find a good job and it’s hard to get along with people at church. He is not an ex-convict or a migrant work...

New Currents

• Philippines
• 2010
• 77min

Tracking a group of illegally trafficked people from Mindanao to Malaysia, Ways of the Sea focuses instead on the hopes and dreams of those trafficked as they seek to escape poverty and instead run into perilous uncertainty.

New Currents

• Hong Kong,China
• 2010
• 118min

Reuniting with a long-lost sweetheart provokes the nascent sense of love, the now-faded memory of heartbreaks, and odd discoveries of belonging to others. [Lover’s Discourse] tells a cliche love story in an irresistibly sweet lang...

New Currents

• Philippines
• 2010
• 78min

Anyone who has visited the Philippines knows the street-children who besiege motorists, taxi passengers and pedestrians with requests to buy small garlands of scented sampaguita flowers. Sociologically, the kids are a symptom of e...

New Currents

• Hong Kong,China,United States,France
• 2010
• 105min

Kate has a special talent. She can foresee exactly when others are going to die just by looking at their faces. One day, she meets a young man named Jason and informs him of his time of death and that he will be able to tell her a...

New Currents

• India
• 2010
• 104min

This film is the story of a middle-aged woman who realizes the meaning of love through a meeting with the person that her son and his colleague loved, following the tragic news of her son’s death. Having lived by herself after h...