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New Currents
The Journals of Musan- PARK Jung-bum
- Korea
- 2010
- 127min
Jeon Seung-chul’s citizen registration number starts with 125, branding him as a North Korean defector. It is difficult to find a good job and it’s hard to get along with people at...
New Currents
My Spectacular Theatre- LU Yang
- China
- 2010
- 120min
A cinema about cinema, [My Spectacular Theatre] grants viewers a warm and moving emotion. A pirated DVD dealer, Chen Yu, meets the people who change his life forever when he enters...
New Currents
The Quarter of Scarecrows- Hassan-Ali MAHMOUD
- Iraq
- 2010
- 76min
[The Quarter of Scarecrows] exposes the misery and sorrow of war through the thickets of symbolic imagery. The land where the years of the Iran-Iraq war left its scars attracts a t...
New Currents
Ways of the Sea- Sheron DAYOC
- Philippines
- 2010
- 77min
Tracking a group of illegally trafficked people from Mindanao to Malaysia, Ways of the Sea focuses instead on the hopes and dreams of those trafficked as they seek to escape povert...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Pear- ZHANG Ciyu
- China
- 2010
- 87min
In a country town, a man gathers fruit from a local pear tree and goes to city to meet his wife. Those are what she likes. The man and his wife are building a big two-story house u...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Pinoy Sunday- HO Wi Ding
- Taiwan,Philippines,Japan,France
- 2009
- 84min
[Pinoy Sunday] is a black comedy depicting a ruckus involving Filipino migrant workers in Taiwan and a leather sofa. Manuel and Dado work on a bicycle assembly line, troubling them...
New Currents
Floating Lives- NGUYEN Phan Quang Binh
- Vietnam,Singapore
- 2010
- 113min
This movie is based on Boundless Rice Field, a novel by Nguyen Thi Ngoc Tu, winner of the Asian Literature Award in 2007. Vu and his children Dien and Nuong raise ducks and live on...
New Currents
Lover’s Discourse- Jimmy WAN,Derek TSANG
- Hong Kong,China
- 2010
- 118min
Reuniting with a long-lost sweetheart provokes the nascent sense of love, the now-faded memory of heartbreaks, and odd discoveries of belonging to others. [Lover’s Discourse] tells...
New Currents
Sampaguita, National Flower- Francis Xavier Eusebio PASION
- Philippines
- 2010
- 78min
Anyone who has visited the Philippines knows the street-children who besiege motorists, taxi passengers and pedestrians with requests to buy small garlands of scented sampaguita fl...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Please Don’t Disturb- Mohsen ABDOLVAHAB
- Iran
- 2010
- 80min
A rising TV host follows his wife and tries to persuade to change her mind, who announced to divorce him for the domestic violence. A Muslim scholar who lost his money and document...