A Window on Asian Cinema

• Zarrar KAHN
• Canada/Pakistan
• 2023
• 98min

Medical student Mariam is unhappy about her family’s situation: her grandfather’s death leaves her family saddled with debt and having to accept financial help from her sleazy uncl...

• 칸영화제 감독주간

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Chien-Hung LIEN
• Taiwan/France
• 2023
• 106min

Hui-Jun, a chicken farmer from a rural village in Taiwan, lives with her soon-to-be-married younger brother and her teenage niece, Xin-Ru. When her relatives claim that she, being ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Daichi MURASE
• Japan
• 2023
• 83min

A father, son, daughter-in-law, and grandson operate an inn in a desolate, rural town that once had a movie theater and many tourists but has fallen into decay. The son wants to se...

• 산세바스티안영화제 뉴 디렉터스

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Sidharta TATA
• Indonesia
• 2023
• 114min

Ali Topan is a modern-day Romeo and Juliet fairy tale. Ali is a young boy living in the Blok M community running music events. His life is mostly in the streets. Although he...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Devashish MAKHIJA
• India
• 2023
• 138min

Joram opens with idyllic images of Dasru and Vaano living happily in Jharkhand, Eastern India, but soon cuts to the same couple, five years later, barely surviving as constr...

• 로테르담영화제 빅스크린

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kenzhebek SHAIKAKOV
• Kazakhstan
• 2023
• 108min

Born without legs, Melis lives with his young son in a small rural village. There is a weapons test site near the village, but Melis and other villagers lead a peaceful life. Zhalg...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Yui KIYOHARA
• Japan
• 2022
• 116min

Remembering Every Night follows three women in one spring day in Tama, a satellite city of Tokyo. Chizu, forty-four, receives a postcard from an old friend inviting her to c...

• 베를린영화제 포럼

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thaiddhi,Lamin OO,Nay Wunn NI,Myo Thar KHIN,Aung MIN
• Myanmar
• 2023
• 104min

Ten Years Myanmar, an omnibus film, envisions a dystopian future ten years into the future. Following its debut in Hong Kong in 2015, the Ten Years series evolved int...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Pawo Choyning DORJI
• Bhutan/United States/France/Taiwan
• 2023
• 107min

In 2006, television and internet have finally arrived in Bhutan, and the nation, which has been a monarchy, is gearing up for its first-ever election in history. The upcoming elect...

• 토론토영화제 센터피스

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Jeremias NYANGOEN
• Indonesia
• 2023
• 106min

Orpa’s husband just passed away and left her with three daughters. Orpa has to face the constant discrimination and centuries-old tradition that always left the women as a second-c...