A Window on Asian Cinema

• Nontawat NUMBENCHAPOL
• Thailand
• 2016
• 75min

Jojo, a 17-year-old girl from Bangkok, is about to graduate from high school. After her friend Q reveals a secret to her, the two girls grow close and spend all their time together. Jojo’s father wholeheartedly approves of the fri...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kamal TABRIZI
• Iran
• 2016
• 98min

Kamal Tabrizi is a veteran filmmaker who has been always interested to depict the themes that others hesitate to approach to. He made Leily is with me (1995) in the midst of Iran-Iraq war, when no one could ever dared to make a co...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Mohsen MAKHMALBAF
• Iran,UK
• 2016
• 63min

When looking at the filmography of Mohsen Makhmalbaf, we’ve been noticing a title Nights of Zayande-rood. Thinking about Makhmalbaf style and the subjects he has usually been interested to depict, we were so curious to know what ...

• Venice Film Festival (Classics)

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Farkhat SHARIPOV
• Kazakhstan
• 2016
• 103min

Akzhol loses his parents in an accident and he is left responsible for his four younger sisters. Diligent and strong-willed, Akzhol drops out of university and starts working, but it’s hard for him to endure day to day and to face...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• YAO Tian
• Hong Kong,China
• 2016
• 83min

It’s 1997. Hong Fen, her husband Wei Dong, his father, and their 8-year-old daughter live 800 meters above sea level in the mountains near the Three Gorges Dam in China, where construction is in full swing. Adhering to government ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Vahid MOUSAIAN
• Iran
• 2016
• 90min

Ghashang and Farang are two elderly sisters who decided to live together following the death of Ghashang’s husband. Bachman, Ghashang’s son, joins them after getting divorced from his wife, a painter who left him because of his ob...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• TRUONG Minh Quy
• Vietnam
• 2016
• 87min

A typical married couple who have spent a long, long together. The wife nitpicks at her husband for drinking too much beer, and he tells her off for gaining weight. Due to a lack of economic affluence, a moneylender visits their h...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• BOO Junfeng
• Singapore,France,Germany,Hong Kong,China,Qatar
• 2016
• 96min

Is it be possible to become friends with the person who took the life of a family member? Aiman, a young prison guard, is transferred to the country’s most secure prison where he meets Rahim, the prison’s chief executioner and the...

• Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard), 2012 ACF Script Development Fund

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Ato BAUTISTA
• Philippines
• 2016
• 93min

A thriller about a contract killer who wants to retire. Ben used to have a wife and son but ended up lonely after living for decades traversing the dark underworld. He wants to make a clean break, not just from his employer but al...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Konkona SENSHARMA
• India
• 2016
• 105min

In winter 1979, a family gathers at their holiday home in Gunji, a resort town in India, to see in the New Year together. While introverted cousin Shyamal, free-spirited eldest brother Bonnie, Nandu and his wife, and Mimi?in a sub...