A Window on Asian Cinema
CITIZEN JAKEThis is the first film by director Mike De Leon, who has been working since the 1970s and has released numerous controversial works, in 18 years. As Francis Joseph A. Cruz mentione...
BUSAN Classic
Black PeterThe first feature film completed in Czechoslovakia by director Milos Forman, the digitally restored film chronicles somewhat introverted and timid Czech boy Peter′s meaningless dai...
A Window on Asian Cinema
BhonsleBhonsle comes from a noble class and stubbornly refuses to engage with other people. He’s a longtime veteran policeman, but lacks sympathy for others. One day, he gets new neighbor...
New Currents
House of My FathersThe Sri Lankan civil war triggered by the massacre of Tamils has engraved a devastating memory of bloody conflict between the Sri Lankan military and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil...
A Window on Asian Cinema
A Family TourBecause of films criticizing the Chinese government, director Yang can’t make films in China anymore and has been living in Hong Kong for five years like as a political refugee. Wi...
Midnight Passion
ArcticThe film follows a man stranded in the Arctic, who is finally about to receive his long awaited rescue. But the helicopter that finally finds him crashes to the ground, the pilot i...
World Cinema
Cold WarVictor researches and collects folk music. He meets Zula at an audition at the National Academy of Arts. Her energy and boldness make him feel something special, and soon they are ...
Wide Angle
Dead SoulsMao Zedong’s era was called the “Great Leap Forward” but in China’s modern history, the era ended with a “great famine.” In 1957, the country’s Baihua movement faced criticism. Reg...
A Window on Asian Cinema
They Sing up on the HillThey Sing up on the Hill is a film that expands the perception of what Mongol means in the world. Instead of ambitiously revealing the whole of Mongolia, or the entirety of ...
Wide Angle
ARMYKorea is the only divided country in the world. Almost all men with South Korean nationality are required to serve in the military according to the military service law in Korea. T...