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A Window on Asian Cinema

Strange Circus
  • SONO Sion
  • Japan
  • 2005
  • 108min

Michuko is the twelve-year-old only child of a principal father and a beautiful mother. She believes that she was bom at guillotine for no reason. After watching her parents having...

Asian Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Sunflower
  • Zhang Yang
  • China
  • 2004
  • 129min

Sunflower tells a family history that unfolds in Beijing, a city passing through a Chinese vicissitude; it′s a modem history by way of reminiscences. While a father, a painter, had...

Asian Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Tang Tang
  • Zhang Hanzi
  • China
  • 2004
  • 90min

Tang is a night show drag queen in Beijing, busy dancing and singing in his sexy costumes and suggestive make-up nightly at clubs or exclusive restaurant stages. But doing the job ...

Asian Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

The Tin Mine
  • Jira Maligool
  • Thailand
  • 2005
  • 115min

The Tin Mine is the second film of Jira Maligool, a director, producer, cinematographer, and scenario writer in Thailand. It portrays four years of a man who has been given a secon...

Asian Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Waiting
  • Rashid Masharawi
  • Palestine,France
  • 2005
  • 88min

Six years after his debut film, Director Ahmad wants to make a satirical comedy. He decides to go into exile in the West after failing to fulfill his ambition. However, just before...

Asian Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Water
  • Deepa Mehta
  • India,Canada
  • 2005
  • 118min

The latest film by Deepa Mehta is a story of the repressed life of Indian widows. 1938, India. The just-married eight-year-old girl Chuyia becomes a widow after her husband passes ...

Asian Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

The Wayward Cloud
  • Mingliang Tsai
  • Taiwan,China,France
  • 2005
  • 114min

Shiang-Chyi just returned to Taipei from overseas. She meets Hsiao-Kang by chance. She once bought a watch from him when he was a street peddler. But now, Hsiao-Kang works as a por...

Asian Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

The Weeping Willow
  • Majid Majidi
  • Iran
  • 2005
  • 95min

What does a man′s happiness stem from? How come it′s always so fragile? Director Majid Majidi explores these simple but never-answered questions in his latest film The Weeping Will...

World Premiere

New Currents

The Peter Pan Formula
  • Cho Chang-ho
  • Korea
  • 2005
  • 110min

Han-soo, a 12th grade student, is an eminent swimmer. After his widowed mother fell into a coma, he lost his desire for anything. Quitting swimming and school, he only wants to sta...

World Premiere

New Currents

Big River
  • Atsushi Funahashi
  • Japan
  • 2005
  • 105min

A road movie where two men and a woman of different nationalities meet and come to a realization, set against the backdrop of the Grand Canyon. Touring the deserts of US, Japanese ...

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