A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2011
• 80min

Banafsheh is behind bars. When she hears Nasser?the father of her unborn baby?has illegally crossed the border out of the country, she decides a trip out of the country on a temporary three-day release in order for her, too. Hanie...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2011
• 110min

As the youngest of five daughters becomes more and more embroiled in the hectic preparations for her engagement party, her sisters gather for the first time in a long while for the occasion?and naturally they get chatty over the k...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2011
• 131min

Four directors have led the revival of the waning Japanese adult video industry, so-called “Pink Films,” since the end of the Nikkatsu Roman Porno era ended in the 1980s. One of these directors, Zeze Takahisa, has recently drawn a...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2011
• 100min

Here is a-tail-wagging-the-dog situation: a soldier murders an officer in India’s newly created armed forces after gaining independence from the British. The culprit is Ramachandran, a highly praised soldier due to his distinguish...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2011
• 128min

In a village where it rains ash from an active volcano in the Kyushu region, brothers Koichi and Ryu, living apart as a result of their parents’ divorce, spend everyday on the phone. Unlike the laid-back younger brother Ryu living...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2011
• 88min

China is a country where modernization and pre-modernization co-exist. The news media constantly boasts of the country’s strong defense power and economic prowess, evidenced by its huge foreign exchange reserve, while the peripher...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2011
• 115min

2009 ACF Script Development Fund Residing in a slum, Toto is nonetheless a special boy. He was born with a disability?a cleft lip?so he can’t even pronounce his own name properly. Regardless, he insists on participating in a spee...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2011
• 96min

Rabindranath Tagore is one of India’s greatest poets and Asia’s first Nobel Laureate. The house where he was born, now a museum, had his Nobel medal stolen from it in 2004, and its whereabouts remain a mystery to this day. [Nobel ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2011
• 112min

In a village in the Punjab region, an occupied home is demolished overnight on the orders of the landlord. When the villagers hear the news in the morning, they protest. Old and ill, a man, a father, also tries to protest, but is ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2011
• 92min

This film’s eloquence is not merely testament to more intimate filmmaking. The rhythm of the film’s presentation is captured naturally, converting the unknown actors’ murmurs into drama. Crossing the line between professional and ...