A Window on Asian Cinema

• Yasmin AHMAD
• Malaysia
• 2008
• 110min

A high school in Malaysia is holding their 7th annual talent show. All the students, their families, and the teachers involved in the talent show and their stories in [Talentime] s...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• CHENG Wen-Tang
• Taiwan
• 2009
• 111min

If somebody doesn’t shed a single teardrop for ten years, what does it tell about his life? A soonto- be retired detective Kuo is living alone in a shabby hotel and is holding tigh...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Irfan KAMAL
• India
• 2009
• 120min

The story is about a special experience of a homeless street boy, Municipality, in the great city, Mumbai. A twelve-year-old boy gets arrested for stealing a wallet, and finds a ne...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Mostofa Sarwar FAROOKI
• Bangladesh
• 2009
• 124min

How is the independence of women possible in conservative Islamic society? Even though ‘Bangladeshi cinema’ sounds a little strange, the question raised by Mostofa Sarwar Farooki i...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• YAKUSHO Koji
• Japan
• 2008
• 131min

Yakusho Koji, a popular Japanese actor who has worked with directors such as Imamura Shohei, Suo Masayuki, and Kurosawa Kiyoshi, is the director and an actor in this film. Koji’s d...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Byambasuren DAVAA
• Germany
• 2009
• 91min

Urna, who plays traditional Mongolian music, sets out on a journey to keep a promise she made to her grandmother before she passed away. She is determined to revive her grandmother...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Wulan TANA
• China
• 2009
• 92min

Set in urban background, the film talks about what is lost by the urbanization and small family system in contemporary China. The grandfather’s unrefined and crude characteristics ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• WANG Quanan
• China
• 2009
• 100min

Working at a textile factory, Li Li is diagnosed with leukemia, but she and her husband can’t afford her treatment. Upon giving up, she decides to find her first love to feel happi...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• KOBAYASHI Masahiro
• Japan
• 2008
• 104min

Skinny as a reed and with tousled hair, teenager Ryo Kawai feels like he’s at the edge of a cliff. He lives alone in a house with no electricity, water or gas, and has just been fi...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• KOBAYASHI Masahiro
• Japan
• 2009
• 84min

This is a film portraying a couple’s short romance and subsequent farewell. It’s a work long dreamed of by Kobayashi Masahiro, who is said to represent Japanese independent cinema....