A Window on Asian Cinema

• Mussadique SULEIMAN,Ron NAM,Bahir YEUSUFF,Khairil BAHAR,Johan JOHN,Linus CHUNG,Desmond NG,WOO Ming Jin,Jordan Suleiman,Kamal SABRAN,HO Yuhang,LIEW Seng Tat,Benji LIM,James LEE,Yasmin AHMAD,Amir MUHAMMAD
• Malaysia
• 2009
• 80min

15 short films directed by 15 filmmakers in Malaysia. The filmmakers represent the core of what is known internationally as the Malaysian ‘New Wave.’ The cast consists of numerous ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Soi CHEANG
• Hong Kong
• 2009
• 88min

With the past of losing his wife in an accident, Brain is a hired killer who sets up accidents to kill his victims. While conducting a well-crafted mission, his team member is acci...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• THAC Chuyen Bui
• Vietnam
• 2009
• 110min

This film tells us how complicated and subtle, pretentious and empty human relationships are. Duyen and Hai are newly married. Duyen believes that she truly loves Hai, but soon rea...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Richard SOMES
• Philippines
• 2009
• 95min

Suffering from an unknown illness, Amor returns home from the city, but the village doctors are at a loss for what to do. At the same time, the livestock of the village falls to de...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• KORE-EDA Hirokazu
• Japan
• 2009
• 116min

Hideo, a middle aged man, lives an ordinary life with his lover, Nozomi, an air doll. One day, while he is at work, Nozomi comes to life and steps out into the world. Working at a ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Shahram MOKRI
• Iran
• 2009
• 92min

At times, the world is filled with things we cannot understand. [Ashkan, the Charmed Ring and Other Stories] reveals the complicated interlinked chains of the world that people can...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• HO Yuhang
• Malaysia,Hong Kong,Korea
• 2009
• 94min

Tuk Chi, an average man in his 20s lives with his mother meets a teenager, Ing, who leads a boring life. They meet while ‘chatting’ over the Internet. Eventually, they meet and hav...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Vimukthi JAYASUNDARA
• SriLanka,France
• 2009
• 85min

A modern myth or legend. Director Vimukthi Jayasundara interprets current Sri Lanka by comparing it to mythology. Halfway through the film, two fishermen discuss a legend about two...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Glen GOEI
• Singapore,Malaysia
• 2009
• 107min

A tycoon, who faced the sudden death, returns as a ghost and watches his family’s confrontations unfold. His sons argue over the matter of successor and their hidden emotions among...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• LU Chuan
• China
• 2009
• 135min

Despite the film sets against the Japanese invasion of Nanjing in 1937, the director focuses on what is lost in war in its broad sense. He points out that there is no division betw...