New Currents

• PARK Jung-bum
• Korea
• 2010
• 127min

Jeon Seung-chul’s citizen registration number starts with 125, branding him as a North Korean defector. It is difficult to find a good job and it’s hard to get along with people at...

New Currents

• LU Yang
• China
• 2010
• 120min

A cinema about cinema, [My Spectacular Theatre] grants viewers a warm and moving emotion. A pirated DVD dealer, Chen Yu, meets the people who change his life forever when he enters...

New Currents

• Hassan-Ali MAHMOUD
• Iraq
• 2010
• 76min

[The Quarter of Scarecrows] exposes the misery and sorrow of war through the thickets of symbolic imagery. The land where the years of the Iran-Iraq war left its scars attracts a t...

New Currents

• Sheron DAYOC
• Philippines
• 2010
• 77min

Tracking a group of illegally trafficked people from Mindanao to Malaysia, Ways of the Sea focuses instead on the hopes and dreams of those trafficked as they seek to escape povert...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• ZHANG Ciyu
• China
• 2010
• 87min

In a country town, a man gathers fruit from a local pear tree and goes to city to meet his wife. Those are what she likes. The man and his wife are building a big two-story house u...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• HO Wi Ding
• Taiwan,Philippines,Japan,France
• 2010
• 84min

[Pinoy Sunday] is a black comedy depicting a ruckus involving Filipino migrant workers in Taiwan and a leather sofa. Manuel and Dado work on a bicycle assembly line, troubling them...

New Currents

• NGUYEN Phan Quang Binh
• Vietnam,Singapore
• 2010
• 113min

This movie is based on Boundless Rice Field, a novel by Nguyen Thi Ngoc Tu, winner of the Asian Literature Award in 2007. Vu and his children Dien and Nuong raise ducks and live on...

New Currents

• Jimmy WAN,Derek TSANG
• Hong Kong,China
• 2010
• 118min

Reuniting with a long-lost sweetheart provokes the nascent sense of love, the now-faded memory of heartbreaks, and odd discoveries of belonging to others. [Lover’s Discourse] tells...

New Currents

• Francis Xavier Eusebio PASION
• Philippines
• 2010
• 78min

Anyone who has visited the Philippines knows the street-children who besiege motorists, taxi passengers and pedestrians with requests to buy small garlands of scented sampaguita fl...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Mohsen ABDOLVAHAB
• Iran
• 2010
• 80min

A rising TV host follows his wife and tries to persuade to change her mind, who announced to divorce him for the domestic violence. A Muslim scholar who lost his money and document...