New Currents

• Aruna JAYAWARDANA
• SriLanka
• 2011
• 108min

Life, death, and basic human desire?no one can escape from these inevitabilities. [August Drizzle] follows the life of a female mortician and tells a tale of universal human desires. Somalata, a woman mortician, works with Piyasi...

New Currents

• KIM Joong-hyun
• Korea
• 2011
• 110min

[Choked] is a gruesome portrait of family disintegration. Surprisingly the mother is the main cause for the family breakup. She becomes embroiled in a pyramid scheme, and as a result, has to run away to hide from the failed financ...

New Currents

• Kamila ANDINI
• Indonesia
• 2011
• 100min

The sea and a mirror are what sustain the life of 12 year old Kapis, who lives on the small Indonesian island of Kampung Bajo. The mirror is a gift left by her father who was lost at sea, and the sea is where she and her mother ma...

New Currents

• Loy ARCENAS
• Philippines
• 2011
• 100min

[Nino] is the story of a family entangled by greed. Gaspar, head of the Lopez-Aranda family, is a retired politician who loves music. His cousin Celia now lives with him at his mercy, though she was once a renowned opera singer. G...

New Currents

• KITAGAWA Hitoshi
• Japan
• 2011
• 84min

Violence is deadly to both offender and victim, but the offender does not realize this truth. [Damn Life] is a low budget independent movie that tells us how deeply seated trauma from violenceis. When Kotani was little, he lost h...

New Currents

• Stanley PARK
• Korea
• 2011
• 106min

This low budget period drama is a rare beast indeed, costing a mere 70 million Won. For those with no time for expensive blockbusters, this film will be a welcome anomaly. Stanley PARK produced, wrote and directed the film as well...

New Currents

• Siu PHAM
• Vietnam,Switzerland
• 2011
• 91min

A special story with a blurry line between reality and the surreal, humanity and the spirit, [Here or There] is an experimental piece open to multiple interpretations. The setting is a small Vietnamese seaside town. The daily liv...

New Currents

• Midi Z
• Myanmar,Taiwan
• 2011
• 84min

[Return to Burma] captures the realities of Myanmar, a country that has been closed to outsiders for a great deal of time. It is a project made possible only by Chinese-Burmese director Midi Z, though he currently resides in Taiwa...

New Currents

• Tom Shuyu LIN
• Taiwan,China,Hong Kong,China
• 2011
• 98min

2010 APM (aka. PPP) Project / 2011 ACF Post-production Fund The most brilliant moment in life can be happy or sad, but it can also act as a beacon to our lives. [Starry Starry Night] tells the story of how a 12 year old girl over...

New Currents

• GAO Zipeng
• China
• 2011
• 95min

[Lost in the Mountain] was inspired by Sky Clean Sand: Autumnal Thoughts, a poem by prominent yuanqu author Ma Zhiyuan, dating from the early Yuan era. Our lives are as unpredictable as the fog, and we are powerless before a crue...