A Window on Asian Cinema

• Armenia/United States/Mexico
• 2025
• 109min

In Armenia, where the shadows of war still cast their long reach, Claudette embarks on a road trip to a remote monastery with a soldier Atom, unaware that her father has been killed after being mistaken for the enemy. The camera b...

• Berlin Berlinale Forum

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong, China/Cambodia/India
• 2025
• 87min

After her father’s death, theater actor Nisay returns from New York to her home in Phnom Penh and runs into Thida. The film moves back and forth between the present, seven years since the two were lovers, and the past, when they s...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iraq/United States/Qatar
• 2025
• 106min

The President′s Cake is a film that stirs both the heart and the mind. As the first Iraqi film ever invited to the Cannes Film Festival, it achieved the rare feat of winning both the Camera d′Or and the Audience Award in the Direc...

• Cannes Directors′ Fortnight Camera d′Or, Audience Award

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan/Taiwan/United States
• 2025
• 138min

What shape does the ideal family take? Dear Stranger unfolds as a narrative of catastrophe, one that befalls a family chasing their dreams while seeking a peaceful everyday life. Kenji, a Japanese professor aspiring for a tenure t...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia
• 2025
• 119min

A youthful high-teen romance musical drama, the kind not seen in a long time. Cinta (meaning ‘love’ in Indonesian) is a pretty and talented girl well-known throughout her school. Everyone expects her to win the top prize in the sc...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan/France/Singapore
• 2025
• 120min

Eleven-year-old Fuki is curious about death. She writes fictional essays imagining her own funeral and occasionally attempts to communicate with spirits. For a young girl with a father battling cancer, death is not a distant conce...

• Cannes Competition

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2025
• 96min

The first to vanish from thirteen-year-old Arsin’s life was his uncle Yerken, nicknamed Arsin ‘botanist,’ who taught him everything about collecting plants. Then three years ago, on a snowy winter day, he left town. Has he drunk t...

• Berlin Generation Kplus International Jury Grand Prix, 2023 APM Project

A Window on Asian Cinema

• France/Kazakhstan/Netherlands/Lithuania/Sweden
• 2025
• 94min

This time it would be different, or so their mother promised. Yet once again she abandons Mila and Lina at a hotel to visit her lover far away. Mila and Lina survive by giving up on hope early: Lina losing herself in video games, ...

• Locarno Cinema of the Present

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Vietnam
• 2025
• 139min

Ten years after the war, Saigon is still in the midst of reconstruction. Widowed Ky Nam runs a small restaurant in a communal housing complex, where residents share a central courtyard and know every detail of each other’s lives. ...

• Toronto Special Presentations

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Bangladesh
• 2025
• 99min

Two lives unfold in parallel in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Emma is a young woman who brings home sand from construction sites to fill her cat’s litterbox. Hasan, who works at a glass factory, steals silica sand from work to make glass, dr...

• Karlovy Vary Proxima Competition Grand Prix