A Window on Asian Cinema

• Meng Ong
• Singapore,United States
• 2001
• 88min

Ah Na is a young Chinese immigrant girl living in New York. She works illegally at a Chinese restaurant with the hopes of someday realizing an "American dream." In her unexpected v...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Mira Nair
• India,United States
• 2001
• 104min

Delhi is a complex city, comprised of people and languages from various levels of society, yet it manages to balance the importance of the present and the traditional past. The mon...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Ashutosh Gowariker
• India
• 2001
• 224min

A well-known fact: India was subjected to British rule beginning with the English victory in 1857. For many years, the British collected a tax called Lagaan from the Indians, claim...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Zhang Yang
• China
• 2001
• 118min

For Zhang Yang, family problems, specifically between a father and his son, are the central issue. The director has once again made a film about family problems - his last fi...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Darezhan Omirbaev
• Kazakhstan,France
• 2001
• 85min

There′s a film director with a firm belief in the artistic value of movies. Due to the projectionist′s mistake during a film preview, a low-grade film is shown instead of the direc...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Babak Payami
• Iran,Italy
• 2001
• 100min

Secret Ballot is a road movie-style satirical film attempting to examine an aspect of society through a balloting process. Set in a backcountry town of Iran, a female...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Imamura Shohei
• Japan
• 2001
• 119min

Shohei Imamura′s preoccupation has always been the subject of what it means to be ′Human′ Although his characters may sometimes smell of filth, the point is that they always delve ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Ming Zhang
• China
• 2001
• 91min

Weekend Plot is the second feature film by Zhang Ming, who adopted modern methods in his last film In Expectation by developing penetrating psychologica...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Mingliang Tsai
• Taiwan,France
• 2001
• 116min

Tsai Ming-Liang creates films that are the epitome of cinematic aestheticism in addition to being most memorable reports on isolation. The three protagonists, Hsiao Kang, Hsiao Kan...

New Currents

• Toshiaki TOYODA
• Japan
• 2001
• 83min

Rebellion is one of the key elements of teen movies, and for teen movies set in classrooms, rebellion against the repressive educational system and conservative elders are two key ...