A Window on Asian Cinema
Lost DaughterLost Daughter shows how a family relationship based on competition and possession can cause tragedy: it tells a desperate growth story accompanied by sacrifice and wound. In...
A Window on Asian Cinema
The City of Mirrors: A Fictional BiographyA typical married couple who have spent a long, long together. The wife nitpicks at her husband for drinking too much beer, and he tells her off for gaining weight. Due to a lack o...
A Window on Asian Cinema
#BKKYJojo, a 17-year-old girl from Bangkok, is about to graduate from high school. After her friend Q reveals a secret to her, the two girls grow close and spend all their time together...
New Currents
Lady of the LakeA small village by a lake. Citing pollution, the government incinerates the shanties that the destitute have long called home. People watch in despair as their homes burn. Among th...
Opening Film & Closing Film
The Dark WindA film about innocent love, traditional values and the collision of conflicting religious beliefs, The Dark Wind is the third feature film by Hussein Hassan, a renowned acto...
Wide Angle
Night-FlyZhanel is trapped in a life devoid of purpose. Unable to face the real world, she finds safe harbor in her wild and beautiful dreams. With the help of a psychiatrist she meets in h...
Midnight Passion
The Girl with All the GiftsThe near future; humanity has been all but destroyed by a mutated fungal disease that eradicates free will and turns its victims into flesh-eating zombies. Only a small group of ch...
Wide Angle
SUNTwo boys go to live in a temple. Sundong is sent there when his mother is deported, while Sundoo goes voluntarily when he is tempted to kill himself after suffering from school vio...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Muhammad: The Messenger of GodThe Iranian master filmmaker Majid Majidi’s epic drama about the prophet Muhammad, from the time of his birth until the age of thirteen. This film is the first part of a trilogy pl...
A Window on Asian Cinema
The Road to MandalayLianqing is a 23-year-old Burmese. To find work, she and many others from Myanmar follow a secret route down the Mekong River and on into Thailand. Since she has no work permit, sh...