A Window on Asian Cinema

• Atsushi FUNAHASHI
• Japan
• 2012
• 120min

explores the consequences of 3.11. After the disaster, Shiori and Kenji, a couple working at a small factory recovering from the tragedy, are looking forward to having...

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• Dorota K?DZIERZAWSKA
• Poland
• 1994
• 63min

A wonderful example of a film about children that avoids traditional pitfalls of the genre, e.g. oversimplifying the characters or having them deliver messages in discrepancy with ...

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• Andrzej WAJDA
• Poland
• 1974
• 179min

Wajda’s film is first and foremost a multilayered, Dickensian portrait of Poland at a specific time and place. The city of Lodz at the end of the 19th century was a European centre...

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• Wojciech Jerzy HAS
• Poland
• 1964
• 185min

A long trip that will lead you to unexpected places, even if you have seen the film before. Sometimes called ‘Poland’s greatest cult film’, this is a classic example of a frame sto...

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• Jerzy KAWALEROWICZ
• Poland
• 1959
• 93min

The premise is Hitchcockian ? a train full of strangers forced to spend the night in a confined space, with a suggestion that among the passengers there might be a killer. It is fa...

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• Krzysztof ZANUSSI
• Poland,United States,Germany
• 1984
• 105min

Krzysztof Zanussi’s strong point has always been the ability of setting up situations in which characters find themselves in a conundrum without an obvious way out. Zanussi’s class...

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• Jerzy SKOLIMOWSKI
• Poland
• 1964
• 71min

The most fascinating element of this film ? Skolimowski’s feature debut ? is the deliberate blurring of the line between the filmmaker and the protagonist. Skolimowski is the direc...

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• Andrzej MUNK
• Poland
• 1960
• 107min

For a brief moment before his tragic death in 1961, Andrzej Munk was the yin to Andrzej Wajda’s yang in Polish cinema. is exactly the opposite of Wajda‘s romantic and po...

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• Krzysztof KIE?LOWSKI
• Poland
• 1981
• 112min

The philosophical implications of this film are as universal as they are obvious ? accidental events can radically influence your life. But it is Kieslowski’s honest approach to hi...

New Currents

• Nawapol THAMRONGRATTANARIT
• Thailand
• 2012
• 68min

Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit’s experimental film consists of 36 static camera shots that tell a story of how we store memories in the digital era. Sai, a location scout working for a...