A Window on Asian Cinema

• Afghanistan,Iran
• 2019
• 74min

Shabaneh is suffering from fear and compulsion to tell her fiance about the fact that she was gangraped as a child, when she was wandering around Afghanistan and Pakistan. Negar’s future mother-in-law demands a proof of her virgin...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong,China
• 2019
• 126min

Hong Kong in the 1960s. Mrs. Yu lives at No. 7 Cherry Lane with her mysteriously charming teenage daughter Meiling. When Ziming, a university student, becomes an English tutor to Meiling, a special bond begins to form between the ...

• Best Screenplay Award at Venice International Film Festival In Competition

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2019
• 90min

Thirty-year-old Ying-Juan, who weighs 105 kilograms, is a great cook. She works as a lunch lady at her mother’s daycare center. Neighborhood children and people ridicule and sneer at her for her weight, but Ying-Juan is confident ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Denmark,Germany,France,Luxembourg,Afghanistan
• 2019
• 90min

This story begins in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1989, toward the end of the war between the Soviet Union and Afghanistan, which began in 1979. Around the time the Soviet military begins to withdraw from Afghanistan, 15-year-old Qodrat...

• ACF Post-Production Fund 2015 / Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia,Malaysia,France
• 2019
• 106min

Siman is a man of few words who lives in a quiet rural village in Indonesia in the 1960s. By sheer chance, he witnesses people shooting a video of an astronaut landing on the moon. Unfortunately, he gets caught and gets his tongue...

• APM 2014 / 2013 ACF Post-Production Fund

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Bhutan
• 2019
• 110min

Pawo Choyning DORJI invites us to the most remote place in Bhutan, the happiest country in the world. Lunara, a very small village with only 56 people at 4,800 meters above sea level, has the most remote school on earth. The city ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Laos,Spain,Singapore
• 2019
• 116min

The time and space cannot be specified in a sleepy rural village in Laos. A boy’s family make a poor living by farming and bartering the crops. As his mother becomes sick with tuberculosis, his father abandons the family. Since th...

• Venice International Film Festival Venice Days

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2019
• 107min

Upbeat music reverberates throughout the quiet rural village of Jamua, and a group of government officials arrives to promote the new aadhaar (resident identification) card issued by the Indian government. Suspicious that the gove...

• APM 2016

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2019
• 94min

Iewduh is the name of the largest and the most vibrant market in Northeast India. Market, whose original title is ‘Iewduh’, tells the story of the people of the Iewduh Bara Bazaar market. Mike is a bathroom cleaner working in the ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2019
• 130min

Dolly Kitty and Those Twinkling Stars is a story about a secret shared by two cousins, Dolly and Kazal, who live in the suburbs of New Delhi. Dolly is a middle-class working mother with a son and a hardworking husband. Her family ...