A Window on Asian Cinema
BalloonOn the Tibetan grasslands, Darje and Drolkar lead a serene and ordinary life with their three sons and Darje’s father. The death of Darje’s father throws the whole family into sorr...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Suk SukSuk Suk is a love story of two elderly gay men in Hong Kong. Park is a 70-year-old taxi driver who lives with his wife. His son is happily married with children, and his dau...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Seven and a HalfShabaneh is suffering from fear and compulsion to tell her fiance about the fact that she was gangraped as a child, when she was wandering around Afghanistan and Pakistan. Negar’s ...
A Window on Asian Cinema
African VioletWhen Shokoo finds out that her children put her ex-husband Fereydoun in a nursing home, she discusses the matter with her husband Reza and brings Fereydoun home. An obstinate man, ...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Roam Rome MeinRaj is a 38-year-old man from a middle-class Indian family who will be married to his beloved fiancee in three weeks. He lives with his parents and his younger sister Reena in thei...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Dolly Kitty and Those Twinkling StarsDolly Kitty and Those Twinkling Stars is a story about a secret shared by two cousins, Dolly and Kazal, who live in the suburbs of New Delhi. Dolly is a middle-class working...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Bitter ChestnutBitter Chestnut begins with two men eating and taking a rest in a valley in the mountains. One of them is Kishan, a 17-year-old who is conflicted about the family’s expectat...
A Window on Asian Cinema
AadhaarUpbeat music reverberates throughout the quiet rural village of Jamua, and a group of government officials arrives to promote the new aadhaar (resident identification) card ...
A Window on Asian Cinema
The Garden of Evening MistsThe Garden of Evening Mists is the latest film by Tom Shu-Yu LIN, based on the Malaysian novel of the same title. A survivor of a brutal Japanese internment camp, Teoh Yun L...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Jallikattu′Jallikattu′ is a ritual or a game that has been played since before the common era in India’s Tamil region. Similar to a rodeo, the person who stays the longest on the back of an ...