A Window on Asian Cinema

• 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 Miao helps Ai bake a cake, the bond between the two...

Wide Angle

• India
• 2008
• 18min

Caged behind iron bars at his lonely late-night pharmacy, Arvind spends the night with his Batman comic books, looking forward to the brief exchanges he has with a prostitute who stops by each night to buy condoms.

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2008
• 105min

In summer 1966, young Elise expects to wile away her days until the next school year laughing with her friends and basking in her freedom. But Elise’s summer is not destined to be so. When her mother suddenly abandons the family f...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2008
• 15min

A daughter-in-law, who knows very little of Korean language and culture, gets married and lives in a small rural house. The camera seems to be following her on a typical day with her brusque mother-in-law constantly nagging and mi...

World Cinema

• Canada
• 2008
• 85min

Like Bessai’s Normal, domestic dynamics are at the heart of his latest film, one that explores the baffling, complex, and ultimately unshakeable bond between mothers and daughters. Three exemplars of the relationship are at the he...

World Cinema

• Poland,Austria
• 2008
• 94min

Young Waldemar is preparing to leave his small hometown in Poland and strike out for the West-as embodied by Vienna-and his planning takes him to see his neighbor, Mr. Kuka. He goes to him asking for advice and tips on how to beha...

Wide Angle

• Hong Kong,China
• 2008
• 12min

Shunned by others, a man with a curious head tilt finds love in a woman working in an old-fashioned theater. They discover the reason to the man’s head tilting, but hesitate whether or not fix it for fear it will end the unique b...

Special Programs in Focus

• India
• 2008
• 147min

Eleven stories unfold about the city of Mumbai - a city that is sometimes a gateway to hell, a city where strangers can change your life, a city of dissimilar lives in similar circumstances, a city of dreams and blurred realities....

Special Programs in Focus

• Indonesia,Iran,Thailand,Japan,Hong Kong,Indonesia,Philippines
• 2008
• 75min

Many Asian film directors have been expanding their portfolios to include directing music videos due to interests in the related field, wanting to experiment with new images, or to raise money for other film productions. PIFF has ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2008
• 94min

This is a heart-warming traditional drama directed by director Katsuhito Ishii, renowned for his films rich in individuality including The Taste of Tea. This film, a remake of the film by the great director Hiroshi Shimizu at the ...