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A Window on Asian Cinema
Summer Palace- LOU Ye
- China,France
- 2006
- 135min
[Summer Palace] is the new film by Lou Ye, one of the most talented and ambitious of the emerging crop of Chinese directors. This film, shown in competition at Cannes, portrays the...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Syndromes and a Century- Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL
- Thailand,France
- 2006
- 105min
The film ls about a `flow`; it never dwells in any conventional cinematic form or in completed structure. To create the `flow`, Weerasethakul focuses on the dialogues from daily li...
A Window on Asian Cinema
To Get to Heaven First You Have to Die- Djamshed USMANOV
- Tajikistan,France
- 2006
- 95min
Twenty-year-old Kamal has been married for several months but has not yet been able to consummate the marriage; his wife remains a virgin, and he sexually frustrated. After consult...
New Currents
Betelnut- YANG Heng
- China
- 2006
- 112min
A film about the rather banal lives of two teenaged delinquents. Unlike many teen films that portray the passionate love and energy of youth, this film draws a portrait of two dise...
New Currents
Distance- WEI Tie
- China
- 2006
- 93min
Director Wei Tie conveys the sharp disjuncture that lies between reality and dreams in contemporary China by charting Zhu Ming′s migration from the countryside to the city and his ...
New Currents
Driving with My Wife`s Lover- KIM Tai-sik
- Korea
- 2006
- 92min
Tae-han runs a small stamp shop in a small town. One day finding out that his wife is having an affair, he decides to witness his wife`s infidelity before his eyes. Knowing that hi...
New Currents
Eternal Summer- Leste CHEN
- Taiwan
- 2006
- 95min
A queer cinema with the twist of a coming-of-age film? Or a coming-of-age film with the twist of queer cinema? With college looming ahead, relations between childhood friends Jonat...
New Currents
Just Like Before- Mike SANDEJAS
- the Philippines
- 2006
- 105min
A story of a certain rock star that takes a leap back in time through his memory. After a band`s lead vocalist, Teddy, is murdered, another band member, Jett, loses his enthusiasm ...
New Currents
Love Conquers All- TAN Chui Mui
- Malaysia
- 2006
- 90min
A special gaze on an ordinary love story - that is director Tan Chui Mui`s gaze on the subtle emotions of love. Aping has moved to Kuala Lumpur from Penang and works at her aunt`s ...
New Currents
The Summer of Stickleback- NAKAMURA Mayu
- Japan
- 2006
- 98min
A modest yet ambitious feature debut by director Nakamura Mayu, who works in Japan and the US, describes the wandering years of high school girl Mizuho in `90s Kyoto. She doesn`t g...