A Window on Asian Cinema

• Yinan DIAO
• Hong Kong,United States,France
• 2007
• 94min

A female bailiff’s strange meeting with the husband of a female criminal on death row. While bored with life and longing for change, Hongyan meets Li-Jun, husband of a woman she sa...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• CUI Zi′en
• China
• 2007
• 70min

A philosophical essay written in visuals. The pioneer in Chinese queer cinema, Cui Zi’en, talks about carnal instinct from a philosophical point of view in allegory form. Physical ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Auraeus SOLITO
• Philippines
• 2007
• 118min

Set in Philippine Science High School, a place for elite students in the 1980s, the film tells the story of 8 students. Director Auraeus Calo Solito incorporates the historical bac...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Pen-ek RATANARUANG
• Thailand
• 2007
• 107min

This film by Pen-ek Ratanaruang drew the most attention this year among Thai films, and it was also a PPP project of 2006. Wit and his wife Dang return to Thailand after 7 years an...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Xiao’er GAN
• China
• 2007
• 102min

A 2005 PPP project, this film captures the lives of Christian farmers in China. Common housewife and Christian, Xiao-Li must provide for her husband, ill with pneumoconiosis, and h...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Aoyama Shinji
• Japan
• 2006
• 136min

In this film, Shinji Aoyama, the director with his own authentic color, and ASANO Tadanobu, a truly prominent actor, meet again. As in Helpless and Eureka, Shinji Aoyama explores h...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Brillante MENDOZA
• Philippines
• 2007
• 90min

Brillante Mendoza, a central figure in Filipino films, catches, in documentary style, a lower class life of theft and pick-pocketing during Holy Week and the election. Hand-held sh...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Lume Kan,LOO ZiHan
• Singapore
• 2007
• 78min

Yearning for relationship and communication is an issue characters struggle with in this film yet there isn’t a single word of dialogue being spoken. It is hard to imagine thinking...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Jing Jie Lin
• Taiwan
• 2007
• 113min

It is a road movie about people finding their true selves and overcoming heartaches through the medium of sound. Xiao Tang sends a tape of nature’s sounds he recorded himself to a ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Nan T. Achnas
• Indonesia
• 2007
• 94min

This PPP project of 2001 took 6 years to complete. Sita who sings at a Karaoke bar also works as a prostitute to send money to her daughter in her hometown. Looking for a new place...