A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan,Hong Kong,China
• 2018
• 108min

What will our lives be like 10 years from now? Five up and coming Taiwanese directors each offer their own take answering this question. In 2028, Taiwan is suffering from nuclear waste (“The Can of Anido”), migrant workers (“942”)...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan,Hong Kong,China
• 2018
• 98min

Ten Years Japan succeeds the famous Ten Years produced in 2015 in Hong Kong as part of the Ten Years International Project to premiere in Busan. Executive produced by one of the most renowned directors working today, Kore-eda Hiro...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand,Hong Kong,China
• 2018
• 93min

In 2014 in Thailand, a military coup occurred and the military regime took over. Four distinctive 21st century Thai perspectives explore how militarism penetrates and relates to everyday life. The seemingly peaceful social order ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2018
• 100min

A famous actor and director visit a mountain village to reveal the authenticity of a video sent by a young girl. The visit confirms the issues of gender, rural conservatism, different languages, and so on. However, the social and ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Lebanon,United States
• 2018
• 125min

12-year-old Zain is in a juvenile prison for stabbing someone with a knife, but he wants to sue his parents. With neither an official registered identification card nor birth certificate, he doesn’t even know his birthdate. When t...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan,Hong Kong,China,Singapore,Malaysia
• 2018
• 107min

Because of films criticizing the Chinese government, director Yang can’t make films in China anymore and has been living in Hong Kong for five years like as a political refugee. With her Hong Kong husband and her four-year-old son...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2018
• 120min

Setsuo has been living alone for the past decade, working as a train driver in Kagoshima. One day a young woman and a little boy appear before him to inform that his son has died of a heart attack, and that they are his bereaved w...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Uzbekistan
• 2018
• 78min

1989. Saidulla, a retired Soviet military officer, lives alone in a small house. His son and grandson live in the same town, but they never visit. He is often afflicted by visions of an old war time comrade who comes to haunt him....

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2018
• 189min

The 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, with a magnitude 7.9, killed nearly 150,000, and the chaos of post-quake Japan brought about a surge of ultra-nationalism and militarism. In the following decades, socialists, anarchists, defenders...

• APM 2016

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2018
• 78min

Single, middle-aged woman Mithi yearns to take charge of her life, but finds it difficult. One day, she finds meaning in life after hearing a man’s voice who seems to understand her at the train station. She starts adoring the voi...