A Window on Asian Cinema

• Palestine,France,Jordan,Lebanon,United Arab Emirates,Qatar
• 2015
• 103min

The first feature length fiction film by Palestinian documentary filmmaker Mai Masri, 3,000 Nights vividly captures the reality of the lives of Palestinian women imprisoned in an Israeli prison and of the children born there. Lay...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Singapore
• 2015
• 99min

There is funny consistency in the films of Singaporean filmmaker Royston Tan: All of the titles of his films have numbers in them. 3688’s title represents the number given to Xia Fei Fei as a participant on a talent show. In her l...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Nepal,France,Germany
• 2015
• 90min

In the remote Nepalese village of Dolpa, Prakash enjoys a life of privilege with his father and his sister. Despite his social status, he attends the same elementary school as his best friend, Kiran, the grandson of the village ch...

• Venice International Film Festival (International Critics′ Week)

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2015
• 133min

Delhi, India. 2008. A girl, Aarushi Talwar, is found murdered in her bedroom. Her parents, who were in the next room when it happened, claim that they didn’t hear anything. The police names the servant, Noida, as a suspect but he ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2015
• 88min

Yahya is falsely accused of murder but is found innocent and returns to his daily life. The staff of the textile factory he works for and his neighbors don’t welcome him. They keep glancing suspiciously at him and use varying degr...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iraq
• 2015
• 97min

As it advances across Syria and Iraq, IS, the extremist militant group, poses a huge threat to the people in the region. Ghobadi turns his camera on those in the greatest immediate danger by visiting a Kurdish refugee camp on the ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China,Korea
• 2015
• 110min

Chang Tzu, a Chinese teacher living in Korea, travels to Jeju Island with his brother Papa and two friends. After witnessing a car accident on their way, they try to take the unconscious victim, Ji-yun, to a hospital, but are pull...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2015
• 105min

An overcast sky over a northern Iranian city on the Caspian Sea symbolizes the life of Nahid, a recent divorcee and single mother. Struggling through life with her adolescent son, she finds a new love. But she can not accept the m...

• Promizing Future Prize Ex-aequo of Un Certain Regard, Cannes

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia,Korea
• 2015
• 121min

A man and a woman’s daily routines coincide with one another. Sari watches movies every day in her cramped room to get away from the fatigue of work. Alek also can’t escape from a dark small room where he works on subtitles for pi...

• Orizzonti at Venice International Film Festival / 2014 APM Project

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2015
• 121min

Third generation Korean-Japanese director O Mipo’s fourth feature weaves together three tales from a short story collection by Nakawaki Hatsue. Set in a village in Hokkaido, the film focuses on how big problems can emerge even in ...