A Window on Asian Cinema

• Singapore
• 2006
• 93min

Director Royston Tan refers to 4:30 a.m. as the loneliest time because it is too late to sleep and too early to wake, and the film earnestly describes that solitude. However the subject who speaks of it is different from other fil...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran,India,France
• 2006
• 91min

It seems that Makhmalbaf is now putting himself into idealism. His consistent subject matter is philosophical - fundamental questions of the truth rather than the complex, paradoxical reality of our time, as shown in his previous ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand
• 2006
• 111min

[Dorm] is a well-structured horror and coming of age film that ultimay talks about the value of friendship and love. 12-year-old Chatree is transferred to a new boarding school. Thinking ill of his father, Chatree makes friends wi...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Malaysia,Hong Kong
• 2006
• 99min

Does absolute love exist? It might exist for those who believe in it, and might not for those who don′t. The world, however, is not that simple. What if two people, one of them a believer and one a non-believer, meet and fall in l...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2006
• 70min

Through its critical perspective on serious poverty and preference ideology in current India, [Kamli] also puts an ethnographic eye on the Tribal Lambada, a nomadic tribe that has fallen down to the lowest social class by losing i...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Singapore,Hong Kong China
• 2006
• 95min

Even though [Love Story] is a familiar title, the love story that this film ls is far different from what we usually get. The film tries hard to keep up with the main character`s feelings of desire and lack thereof as he swims aga...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran,France
• 2006
• 85min

The idea of this film, originally under a different title, came to me during my studies. At the time I often travelled from Tehran to my home town, Boroujerd, in the south-west of Iran. I often thought of the petrol station that ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2006
• 94min

This film is actor Momoi Kaori`s feature directorial debut. It draws a portrait of the internal life of humans, which is sometimes beyond our understanding. Yume`s family appears normal and peaceful, however they are in their own...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Bhutan,India
• 2006
• 95min

To Neten Chokling Rinpoche, a spiritual head of Bhutan, filmmaking is another way of spiritual practice. The legend of Milarepa, widely known to Tibetan people, can be a perfect vehicle for carrying a tragedy caused by the greed a...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong,China
• 2006
• 105min

Ming Ming is a 21st Century martial arts princess and lady Robin Hood who steals for love. Her Prince Charming is D, a maverick fighter and irresistible rogue who posted this challenge to his swarms of female admirers - give him 5...