A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kazakhstan
• 2022
• 74min

When Masha receives a personal message from Ramil, a social media celebrity, she decides to meet him. Ramil takes money from a middle-aged man and borrows a luxury apartment to throw a party for teenage girls. The girls get to enj...

• Grand Prix of the Generation 14plus International Jury for the Best Feature Film at Berlin International Film Festival

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iraq/Egypt/Palestine/Saudi Arabia/Lebanon/United Kingdom
• 2022
• 103min

In the outskirts of Baghdad is a landfill covered with mounds of garbage and known by the locals, ironically, as the “hanging gardens.” The wasteland is filled with all sorts of discarded items, including even the corpses of babie...

• Venice Film Festival Orizzonti Extra, 2020 APM Project

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India/United Kingdom/United States
• 2022
• 103min

Anamika, whose mother is Indian and father is English, returns to care for her mother who is suffering from dementia. But the mother-daughter relationship is not an easy one. When her mother was younger she was a promising singer,...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia
• 2022
• 103min

Before, Now & Then (Nana) calmly presents a chronicle of a woman caught up in the modern history of Indonesia, a nation that suffered a violent and chaotic power upheaval immediately after its independence. After losing her father...

• Best Supporting Performance at Berlin International Film Festival, 2021 APM Project

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Malaysia/Indonesia
• 2022
• 92min

On a remote island in Malaysia, Zahara works with her nephew trafficking turtle eggs to make a living. One day, a stranger named Samad arrives on the island. He introduces himself as a researcher for leatherback turtles, and asks ...

• FIPRESCI Prize at Locarno International Film Festival

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan/France
• 2022
• 123min

In Harmonium (2016), the winner of the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at Cannes, or A Girl Missing (2019), which competed at Locarno, Fukada Koji focuses on how our unrealistic image of the family may be, in fact, rather dangerous. ...

• Venice Film Festival In Competition, 2020 APM Project

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2022
• 160min

Forty-year-old Leila is busy taking care of her parents and four brothers. The men of her family work hard, but none can escape poverty. Despite their poor circumstances, their father still views himself as the patriarch of the cl...

• FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes Film Festival

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Malaysia/Indonesia/Korea
• 2022
• 114min

Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, and Seoul. Three couples in three cities in three countries: The paths of a telemarketer for a loan company and a cart rink owner are destined to cross. A pub owner and a woman with their own background stor...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• France
• 2022
• 119min

When her flight to Japan is re-routed due to a typhoon, Freddie (Park Jimin) finds herself on Korean soil for the first time since she was adopted to France as a child. Totally unfamiliar with the language and culture, she tries h...

• Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2022
• 97min

Model student Xiao Lan goes on a date with a popular boy in her class named Wu Miao and ends up having sex. Unlike Xiao Lan, who believes that they were in love, Wu Miao loses interest in her, and intimate photos of her are leaked...