New Currents

• Iraq
• 2012
• 79min

This is a road movie that shouts out Kurdish pain to the world. The President of Iran receives a letter from 111 Kurdish girls. They demand that the government find them husbands, threatening mass suicide if it doesn’t. To solve t...

New Currents

• Taiwan
• 2012
• 114min

Let’s just forget about the dramatic love portrayed in films or novels for a moment. The love that Director Hsu Chao-Jen portrays in can easily be called Down-to-Earth. Everyone around Xiao Yang, a 17-year-old high school boy, su...

New Currents

• Thailand
• 2012
• 68min

Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit’s experimental film consists of 36 static camera shots that tell a story of how we store memories in the digital era. Sai, a location scout working for a studio, takes pictures whenever she’s working and...

New Currents

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 103min

could be the ultra-low budget (3 million won) version of Lee Chang-dong’s magnificent Poetry, because it deals with the similar theme. Though an adult coming-of-age story, this tale of atonement, where a 28-year-old man is wracked...

New Currents

• Japan
• 2012
• 70min

High school is a period of uncertainty: uncertain love, uncertain dreams. is a story about a girl and her friends who take a summer trip to find her brother who ran away six years earlier. One part coming-of-age drama, one part r...

New Currents

• Korea,South
• 2012
• 85min

Asserting the idea that minor conflicts can lead to death, is a bold drama of brothers and retaliation. The younger deadbeat squanders the money he manages to borrow from his brother, who is unhappy with the arrangement and expec...

New Currents

• Taiwan,Hong Kong,China
• 2012
• 110min

Five years has passed since the acclaim for Chang’s The End of the Tunnel, and this year he unveils , a feature film version of that short. Based on a true story of Yuhsiang, a blind pianist, the film opens with a scene where the ...

New Currents

• India
• 2012
• 117min

is a black comedy about understanding each other little by little under serious threats of terror through the medium of cinema. Sunny, struggling to make a living in the Bollywood industry, joins an American documentary filmmaking...

New Currents

• Philippines
• 2012
• 87min

This film about religion, courage and guilt unfolds in 1971 when Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos’ power was at its peak. New recruit Sister Lourdes and Sister Ruth forge a close friendship cloistered in their mountain monast...

New Currents

• Lebanon,Canada
• 2012
• 86min

Running a Lebanese restaurant called ‘Kayan,’ a divorcee Hanin always spends a busy hard day. She takes care of two daughters, barely pays the rent, and worries about money problems of her fiance. She even has to tolerate the comp...