A Window on Asian Cinema
Orange CandyAt times amusing but also somber, Orange Candy is an examination of the complexities related to the widening gap between generations, the breakdown of family relations, conf...
Gala Presentation
Our Little SisterA father who walked out on his wife and three daughters fifteen years ago dies. At the funeral, his daughters meet their half-sister, who like them was also left behind. Happy to h...
Korean Cinema Today
4th PlaceGwang-soo, a promising teenaged swimmer, skips training regularly because he is overconfident of his ability. His violent coach gives up on him and Gwang-soo quit swimming. Years l...
World Cinema
The Endless RiverIn a small village called "The Endless River" in South Africa, a young woman who works in a restaurant reunites with her husband after four years of his jail term. The couple plans...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Toll BarRauan lives in Almaty and works as a night guard at the gatehouse of a luxurious apartment building. He dreams of becoming a boxer, but doesn’t have the means to realize his ambiti...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Three Stories of LoveThree Stories of Love alternates back and forth between the accounts of three unrelated characters including a man mourning his wife who, having been brutally murdered, has ...
A Window on Asian Cinema
ParadiseThis is the feature debut of Sina Dena Ataeian, who has honed his directing skills in various areas of film including animation, video art, concert, TV advertisement, and documenta...
Flash Forward
MustangFollowing their mother's death, five vivacious sisters are brought up in a remote village by their grandmother and father in a family ordered by tradition and virtue. The more the ...
Special Programs in Focus
Tokyo StoryWhat do our parents, the people who raised us with the best of intentions, really think of us? And do we really want to know? In Ozu Yasujiro’s tender, breathtaking Tokyo Story<...
Special Programs in Focus
Rashomon*an extract from an original writing for Asian Cinema 100 […] This transcendence is already inscribed in certain aspects of the film itself. The photographic quality of the...