A Window on Asian Cinema
One SummerA professor in the department of drama and movie arts at China’s Nanjing University and novelist, Yang Yishu presents his latest feature following On The Road(2010). One sum...
Wide Angle
Spring ColdsA girl works at a hamburger joint as a part timer. She makes extra money selling cigarettes to students at the store too. Why is she trying so hard to make money? (NAM Dong-chul)
Midnight Passion
CreepAaron comes across a cryptic online ad: "$1,000 for the day. Filming service. Discretion is appreciated." Low on cash, he travels to a remote mountain town where he meets Josef, hi...
A Window on Asian Cinema
2030A science-fiction thriller set in the near future, 2030 introduces those living in southern Vietnam where global warming has impacted the land. While thematic images of wate...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Journey to the WestAnother meditative piece of cinema from Tsai Ming-Liang’s, who has been one of the most prominent filmmakers of the new cinema movement in Taiwan since his debut in 1992. The film ...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Memories On StoneAfter deciding to make a film about the genocide of 182,000 Kurdish people by Iraq in 1988, Hussein and Alan face obstacles in the project from the beginning. Their lead actress, a...
A Window on Asian Cinema
ExitA feminist film about a middle-aged woman alienated from her family and society, who comes to self-realization as a woman, but must struggle with an unchanging reality. Ling works ...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Ant StoryMostofa Farooki has made films following characters who have to make alternative choices in conflicts between inner order and society in films such as Third Person Singular Numb...
A Window on Asian Cinema
TalesThe film begins on the streets of Teheran shot from a taxi. Then follows a series of clips from stories pivoting on various people, including a cab driver, a woman on the street, a...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Taxi and TelephoneIn Kyrgyzstan of the former Soviet Union during the 1960s a taxi is parked in front of a public phone booth. It is late at night with only a few people seeking to use the phone boo...