A Window on Asian Cinema

• Nandita Das
• India
• 2008
• 101min

Not due to a territorial dispute or ideological differences, people of the same nation aim guns at each other due to religious differences. The conflict between Muslims and Hindus ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Ravi BHARWANI
• Netherlands,Indonesia,Germany,Switzerland
• 2008
• 90min

After her mother’s death, Jaya visits his father. His father, who did not even know of Jaya’s existence, rejects him. Rather, he rejects his entire past. Young Jaya realizes that h...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• CHENG Hsiao-tse
• Hong Kong,Taiwan
• 2008
• 83min

Xiao Ai is a Taiwanese high school girl who lives a monotonous life without any ambition. After meeting a Japanese transfer student named Miao Miao, however, things change. After M...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Emily Tang
• Hong Kong
• 2008
• 92min

Is it possible for a woman to be independent in today’s China? This is the question posed by the director Emily Tang in Perfect Life. Emily Tang searches for the answer through a m...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• YU Lik Wai
• Hong Kong,Japan,Brazil,France
• 2008
• 100min

Like Hong Kong in Love Will Tear Us Apart (1999) or the dystopian city in All Tomorrow’s Parties (2003), Likwai Yu focuses on another city to offer another look into the lives of f...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Vinh Son Nguyen
• Vietnam
• 2008
• 121min

At the very first glance, this film looks like a typical melodrama; but upon looking closer, it is the story of a woman who comes to collapse with no compassion from the world she ...

World Cinema

• Pablo Trapero
• Argentina,Korea
• 2008
• 113min

Lion’s Den is a film about mothers, love, devotion, and confinement. Julia wakes up in her apartment and discovers the bloodied bodies of two men: Her boyfriend and his lover. Havi...

World Cinema

• Franco Brogi Taviani
• Italy
• 2008
• 90min

Based on the novel by Walter Veltroni, Franco Taviani, brother of Paolo and Vittorio, rides the crest of the recent documentary renaissance in an attempt to comprehend some of the ...

World Cinema

• Bent Hamer
• Norway,Germany
• 2008
• 90min

The one constant in Horten’s life is his train route, a route he has been driving for forty years. When the day comes for him to retire, he is at a loss as to how to live in the af...

World Cinema

• Yesim Ustaoglu
• Turkey,Belgium,France,Germany
• 2008
• 112min

Pandora’s Box is a story of alienation and isolation. It is a story of individuals whose lives have been shaped by a sterile middle-class morality. It is a story that many people, ...