A Window on Asian Cinema

• KOBAYASHI Masahiro
• Japan
• 2007
• 102min

The Rebirth is a story of despair and renewal by director Masahiro Kobayashi based on a true murder case in Japan. A young girl gets stabbed to death by her classmate. The mother o...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• JIANG Wen
• China,Hong Kong
• 2007
• 116min

Life is full of riddles we cannot solve. Movies, at times, give us a better understanding of life by showing causal relations in life that are unknown to the characters - from an o...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Wisit Sasanatieng
• Thailand
• 2007
• 97min

With his feature debut, Tears of the Black Tiger, rising Thai director Wisit Sasanatieng was said to have created the "Tom yam gung Western". His next film, Citizen Dog, displayed ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Naghi NEMATI
• Iran
• 2007
• 80min

The film delivers its feeling as if we can sense the cold of snow field and the heat of hot springs. Three soldiers - Essi, Yousef, and Dariush - run away from their military base...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Quan An Wang
• China
• 2007
• 96min

Set in the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, Tuya is leading a hard life, burdened with the sole responsibility to make a living for her family since her husband us paralyzed as a resu...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Miaoyan Zhang
• China
• 2007
• 108min

Xiaolin and Xiaoli each walk through a long dark tunnel. The film exposes the dark shadow of modern China through the stories of two unrelated characters. Xiaolin, who earns money ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Ariandam Mitra
• India
• 2007
• 101min

Indian cinema brings to mind fantastic costumes and exciting song and dance. However, Arindam Mitra′s Zero Zone is far removed from such images. This film is a modern interpretatio...

New Currents

• KATO Naoki
• Japan
• 2007
• 85min

Hasegawa is writing a sequel to his previous novel, based on a true character who murdered 9 people on the street, with the premise that the killer had a brother. The main characte...

New Currents

• Pan Jianlin
• China
• 2007
• 79min

A woman confesses before the camera about an appalling sexual experience that she had undergone when she was younger, and various people state their opinions on her dreadful nightm...

New Currents

• Seng Tat Liew
• Malaysia
• 2007
• 97min

Seng Tat Liew’s feature debut is about a father who finally becomes aware of his children and their emotions. Sui is too busy with work to pay attention to his two sons Li Ahh and ...