A Window on Asian Cinema

• Saman SALOUR
• Iran,France
• 2006
• 85min

The idea of this film, originally under a different title, came to me during my studies. At the time I often travelled from Tehran to my home town, Boroujerd, in the south-west of...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Biju VISWANATH
• India
• 2006
• 100min

This is the story of an independent film director′s struggles in trying to get his film screened for the public. It′s a black comedy revealing the shadow world beneath Bollywood wh...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Bahman GHOBADI
• Iran
• 2006
• 107min

Half Moon is the continuation of Bahman Ghobadi`s [A Moon in Iraq]. Like the musical family in his film [A Moon in Iraq], where the main character was looking for his wife, the gre...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• KORE-EDA Hirokazu
• Japan
• 2006
• 127min

A revisionist piece of samurai drama. This is the story of a faint-hearted samurai who lacks both good swordsmanship and the proper sense of duty by which to avenge his father`s de...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Daniel Wu
• Hong Kong China
• 2006
• 86min

[The Heavenly Kings] is a mockumentary where reality and fiction mix. This is also Hong Kong matinee idol Daniel WU`s feature directorial debut. WU starts a boy band ′Alive′ with...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• TSAI Mingliang
• Taiwan,Austria,France
• 2006
• 115min

The work of Tsai Ming0liang is becoming more and more minimalist while the symbolism becomes more and more profound. In [I Don`t Want to Sleep Alone], he explores the minds of thre...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Paolo Lutz Villaluna,Ellen Ramos
• the Philippines
• 2005
• 116min

[Illusion] is a melodrama with eroticism and retro touches. Set in the late 1950s, the film shows retro touches in every aspect including dramatic structure, music, and performance...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kabir KHAN
• India
• 2006
• 106min

[Kabul Express] pictures forty eight hours of two journalists, who cover Afghanistan and meet various people after 9.11. The movie deals with harsh reality, yet is a comedy. Kabir ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kanala N.T. Sastry
• India
• 2006
• 70min

Through its critical perspective on serious poverty and preference ideology in current India, [Kamli] also puts an ethnographic eye on the Tribal Lambada, a nomadic tribe that has ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Murali NAIR
• India,UK,France
• 2006
• 92min

[Life Is All About Friends], a project invited by PPP of 1999`s PIFF, is the first film of director Murali Nair`s new trilogy. Through the eyes of a child named Unni, the film capt...