A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2017
• 153min

The newest movie by Anurag Kashyap, a director who has come to represent India by building a creative cinema world that swings back and forth between Bollywood and independent films. While following the characteristic splendor and...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China,France
• 2017
• 101min

In a village in southern China, where a river passes through, some women are raped. However, rather than causing an uproar, the village is silent. Instead, the villagers whisper behind backs, and a racketeer even preys on the pare...

• APM 2015, 2017 ACF Post-Production Fund

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2017
• 120min

Iranian director Majid Majidi, famous for Children of Heaven, is indulged in India. After finishing a movie set in Mumbai, India, he announced plans to make his second movie set in India, and his new fascination with it now demand...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2017
• 114min

Little body, stubby arms and legs, awkward gait: meet Yokohama-based 27-year-old Ryutaro (played by director Ninomiya Ryutaro himself), the laconic, heavy smoking and drinking protagonist of Sweating the Small Stuff. From the very...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China,Hong Kong,China
• 2017
• 131min

This movie is made to honor the resistance fighters active when Hong Kong was occupied by Japan. The highlight of this movie is the comradeship among the guerrillas, spies and contact men. Without any words, they look at each othe...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2017
• 120min

The impact of the great earthquake that hit East Japan on March 11 is still being felt, particularly unimaginable pain by those who used to live near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. A husband who lost his wife has quit ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2017
• 127min

Tomo is a young girl living with her irresponsible mother. When her mother suddenly leaves one day Tomo goes to stay with her uncle Makio. At uncle’s house, Tomo happens to meet a transgender lady, Rinko. Since Rinko is caring and...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2017
• 126min

The lamb in “The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary” introduced in this movie is an animal fruit born in a plant stem similar to the umbilical cord. If the stem is cut, the lamb dies. This creature lives as part of a plant and of an animal...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iraq,UK,Netherlands,France,Qatar
• 2017
• 82min

The latest film by Iraqi director Mohamed Al Daradji, who gained world renown after the release of Son of Baylon (2009). Bagdad is celebrating the Islamic holiday Eid al-Adha in 2006. Sarah is commissioned for a suicide bomb attac...

• APM 2010

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2017
• 72min

At night, Manila’s red light Burgos district starts shining and its shops get busy welcoming tourists and women from different countries. The life of Tuesday, Amanda and Barbie is also here. Providing sexual services, the three tr...