A Window on Asian Cinema

• Vietnam
• 2014
• 98min

A science-fiction thriller set in the near future, 2030 introduces those living in southern Vietnam where global warming has impacted the land. While thematic images of water, the horizon and sea burials reveal a unique lyricism, ...

• Berlin Film Festival (Panorama)

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2014
• 135min

A series of mishaps occur overnight at a love hotel located in the famous Kabukicho red light district, where people with shady secrets and conspiracies flock to. The film begins on a light note, with a young lady singing and play...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kyrgyzstan
• 2014
• 178min

In the village, in a small house by the river, an old man lives with his granddaughter. They live a simple life in harmony with the extensive nature. One day, the man’s daughter, living in the city and doing everything in order to...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Bangladesh
• 2014
• 97min

Mostofa Farooki has made films following characters who have to make alternative choices in conflicts between inner order and society in films such as Third Person Singular Number(A Window on Asian Cinema, BIFF 2009) and Televisio...

• 2013 APM Project

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2014
• 124min

Four orphan boys, without identities, earn a daily wage as porters in a big market. They find amusement in stealing a glance at the schoolgirls passing by. A shop owner who considers them her own sons helps them to ask the market ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2014
• 89min

The latest feature from Chang Jung-Chi, winner of the Best New Director at the Golden Horse Film Festival in 2012 for Touch of the Light, opened the Taipei Film Festival in July 2014 to rave reviews. Partners in Crimestarts with a...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China,Hong Kong,China
• 2014
• 104min

A nostalgic young road movie. New face Han Han is a celebrity figure in China, gained popularity from Chinese youth. He is a writer, power-blogger, car racer and a singer and he adds a new title as a film director. Jia Zhangke, th...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2014
• 129min

My Man is the latest project from Kumakiri Kazuyoshi, based on Sakuraba Kazuki’s controversial Naoki Award-winning novel. After losing her family to the tsunami that hit the southwestern sea off Hokkaido, 10-year-old Hana is adopt...

• 2011 APM Project

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2014
• 100min

Laila has a talent in writing, likes writing lyrics, and crushes on a guy of the school indie band. Her physical disability doesn’t keep her from whatever she likes to do, however, Laila is being hurt by those who pity her seeing ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2014
• 87min

On an island in the Philippines, right before the end of World War II, Allied Forces and Resistance attacks have cut off the Japanese army’s food supply. Tamura is kicked out of his unit and the field hospital due to the tuberculo...

• Venice Film Festival (In Competetion) / 2005 APM Project