A Window on Asian Cinema

• Singapore/Thailand
• 2021
• 77min

Two men are passionately engaging in a sexual romp in a bedroom, when a sound engineer suddenly appears, unnoticed. He is in the process of capturing sounds for a very specific collection. Amid the still days and clear nights he f...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2021
• 120min

A young man named Takeshi arrives at a small fishing village. He gets a job at a squid cannery and moves into an old apartment with the help of the cannery owner. Takeshi’s monotonous life is interrupted by a visit from his neighb...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan/China
• 2021
• 98min

Noh is a classical Japanese dance-drama. INU-OH is a film about a real life master Noh dancer from the 14th century. In this film, real people and fictional histories converge with traditional Japanese Noh and modern music, in whi...

• Venice International Film Festival Orrizzonti

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2021
• 98min

It is 2030, and an amazing medical breakthrough has made Alzheimer’s Disease a curable illness. The contract killers Ge and Song execute carry out daily missions for their organization. Ge appears cold-blooded and calm, but suffer...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• United States/India/Australia/Bangladesh
• 2021
• 101min

In 2019, a man named Naveen disappears from a memorial park in Sydney while traveling with his girlfriend Cathy. Having arrived in New York two years ago, Naveen finds a job at a restaurant and meets Cathy there. As their relation...

• 2020 APM Project

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2021
• 132min

Naina, a criminal psychology professor, is sexually assaulted in a slum she visits to help the daughter of a school custodian embroiled in a case of domestic violence and infanticide. Upon surviving the attack that leaves her coll...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• France/Singapore/Germany
• 2021
• 98min

Bassley has traveled all the way to Vietnam from Nigeria as a professional football player. One day he is injured and as a result, is expelled from the team. He cannot tell his family the truth because must find a way to continue ...

• Special Jury Prize at Berlin International Film Festival in Encounters Competition

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Austria/France/Belgium/Taiwan
• 2021
• 120min

Fei lives with his boyfriend Xiaolai, earning money from prostitution to support his family in the countryside. One day, when a client violently rapes Fei, Xiaolai beats up the rapist. However, the rapist’s men come to seek reveng...

• Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2021
• 141min

Mitul is well-educated and has a good job as a journalist. After her grandmother passed away, she lives alone in the old house where her family has lived for generations. Her family does not view her warmly, though. She always eat...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Bangladesh
• 2021
• 91min

Saiful, whose only asset is his own body, leaves his hometown to become an ambulance driver in the capital city, Dhaka. Although he daily sees death, the most challenging thing for him is the immense poverty around him. His hometo...