A Window on Asian Cinema
Ash is Purest White: Director′s CutThis is the latest film by Jia Zhangke, the director most representative of Chinese art cinema. In 2001, in Datong, Shanxi, China, local beauty Qiao Qiao and Bin, a young tough, ar...
Wide Angle
Bruce Lee and the OutlawA street kid, Niku, lives under the protection of the king of Bucharest’s underground world, who calls himself Bruce Lee. He propagates a strange philosophy by applying silver pain...
Korean Cinema Today
NAILEDSoonyeong and Jaegu are a couple running a garage on the country′s border. Their business is poor due to trucks traveling to and from nearby resort construction sites; cars from ot...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Ten Years ThailandIn 2014 in Thailand, a military coup occurred and the military regime took over. Four distinctive 21st century Thai perspectives explore how militarism penetrates and relates to e...
Special Programs in Focus
A Portrait of the Artist as FilipinoUnder 1940s American colonial rule, the Philippines’ complex upper class, embodied by a painter and his daughters, tries to hold on to its elite past in the face of war, and attemp...
Special Programs in Focus
As We WereIn Colonial Philippines, after his mother’s death, naive Kulas begins his much-awaited trip to Manila. On his way to the city, he mindlessly takes on the mission of retrieving a fr...
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Three Godless YearsA Filipino-Japanese soldier falls in love with a Filipina during World War II. The war shatters the idyllic life of Rosario, a schoolteacher. Captain Masugi, a Philippine-born Japa...
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The BlacksmithFlavio’s village and land are under Lizardo’s reign. Flavio is forced to brand innocent children every night with Lizardo’s mark by the head of his men in Pilo. One day, Flavio’s p...
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Cain and AbelDona Pina is a despotic mother who favors her younger son Elis over Lorenz, consequently stoking sibling rivalry between the brothers. Dona Pina lets Elis study in Manila while she...
Special Programs in Focus
MiracleCoinciding with a total eclipse when people believe that the world is ending, inconsequential lass Elsa witnesses an apparition of the Virgin Mary on top of the hill where, as an i...