A Window on Asian Cinema

• 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 leaving, his friend asks him to audition actors f...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2005
• 84min

A film that shows how an aimless war destroys individuals′ lives, portrays the life of a woman named Gilaneh. In the first half, the film follows the life-threatening journey of a mother and a daughter to Tehran in search of their...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2005
• 99min

Nine Emotions is growth story of thirteen-year-old girl and at the same time, it is a story of transgender who wants to find his/her sexual orientation. The daughter of a wealthy Hindu family, Swetha one day witnesses shocking sig...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2005
• 98min

Seventeen-year-old Navid Raisi leaves his small village to look for a job as a teacher of Persian Literature. Put on a waiting list for the next available fob at the Education Center, Navid finds work as a daily worker. One night,...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2005
• 100min

A superstar reporter at a Nanjing newspaper, Gu seems to have it all, but his whole universe starts falling apart after Yang begs Gu for public kudos in the newspaper for saving a university coed from rape. This is Yang’s despera...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Singapore
• 2005
• 90min

Be With Me is a tapestry of three stories woven around the themes of love, hope and destiny. In Meant to Be, an ageing shopkeeper grapples with loneliness, until one day, he chances upon an autobiography which changes his life. ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2005
• 90min

The 5th film of Ying Ning, who has persistently criticized Chinese society in her Beijing Trilogy which includes / Love Beijing presented at PIFF 2003, Perpetual Motion is a poignant criticism of past Chinese society from the pers...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2005
• 105min

Made by Taiwan′s young director Cheng Sheng Lin, it was an officially selected PPP project at the 2001 Pusan International Film Festival. The Taiwanese countryside in the 1960s. Charming lady Bao Chai lives with her daughter Xi Li...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Mongolia,Germany
• 2005
• 90min

The Cave of the Yellow Dog is a story about a Mongolian family and their dog. Nonsal, the six-year-old daughter, brings home a dog she finds in a cave. But her father says she can′t keep the dog since they don′t know where the dog...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China,France
• 2005
• 93min

2002 PPP Sixteen-year-old Xiao Yun lives in a small riverside town in China in 1983, where her deeply felt emotions can’t be articulated in the repressive social climate of her home and small town. When her high school teacher...