A Window on Asian Cinema

• Myanmar
• 2023
• 104min

Ten Years Myanmar, an omnibus film, envisions a dystopian future ten years into the future. Following its debut in Hong Kong in 2015, the Ten Years series evolved into an international project, spanning across Japan, Taiwan, and T...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2023
• 101min

In a small rural village in China in the 1990s, an olderly woman who raises geese is murdered. The prime suspect is arrested?a homeless man called the “madman,” whom the old woman had taken in. Chief Inspector Ma Zhe discovers a c...

• Cannes Un certain regard

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2023
• 85min

Birju and Shona live in the slums with their daughter Muni. Together they navigate Kolkata’s affluent neighborhoods each very morning, collecting trash on a handcart. They sift through salvageable items from among the discarded ma...

• 2019 APM Project

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2023
• 138min

Joram opens with idyllic images of Dasru and Vaano living happily in Jharkhand, Eastern India, but soon cuts to the same couple, five years later, barely surviving as construction workers in Mumbai and living with their three-mont...

• Rotterdam Big Screen

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan/France
• 2023
• 106min

Hui-Jun, a chicken farmer from a rural village in Taiwan, lives with her soon-to-be-married younger brother and her teenage niece, Xin-Ru. When her relatives claim that she, being unmarried, should not attend her brother’s wedding...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Vietnam/Singapore/France/Spain
• 2023
• 179min

In a noisy outdoor restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City, three men are chatting when a motorcycle accident happens on the road right next to them. Thien doesn’t pay much attention to it, but it turns out that the victim of the accident ...

• Cannes Golden Camera Award

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia
• 2023
• 114min

Ali Topan is a modern-day Romeo and Juliet fairy tale. Ali is a young boy living in the Blok M community running music events. His life is mostly in the streets. Although he is considered a delinquent, his kindness toward others m...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia
• 2023
• 106min

Orpa’s husband just passed away and left her with three daughters. Orpa has to face the constant discrimination and centuries-old tradition that always left the women as a second-class gender in the society and the victim of viole...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Nepal
• 2023
• 106min

In a village nestled at the foot of the Himalayas in eastern Nepal, a skilled craftsman named Maila leads a humble but happy life with his wife, Maili, and seven-year-old son, Bindre. One day, the quiet life of his village is disr...

• Toronto Centrepiece

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2023
• 116min

Remembering Every Night follows three women in one spring day in Tama, a satellite city of Tokyo. Chizu, forty-four, receives a postcard from an old friend inviting her to come visit as she has moved to the neighborhood. Unemploye...

• Berlin Forum