A Window on Asian Cinema

• Niki KARIMI
• Iran
• 2011
• 90min

[Final Whistle] condemns the gap between law and justice. Sahar, a documentary filmmaker currently working on a television film, is looking for Maliheh, necessary for some re-shoot...

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• Rainer SARNET
• Estonia
• 2011
• 132min

[The Idiot] is an Estonian adaptation of the Dostoyevsky’s novel of the same title. It is a drama of annihilation driven by significant characters of Myshkin, Natasha, and Rogozhin...

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• Mikayel VATINYAN
• Armenia
• 2011
• 67min

2007 APM(aka. PPP) Project This Armenian film begins with a line from the Trial of Joan of Arc. “How long has it been since you heard your voices?” “I heard them yesterday and t...

• 2007 APM (구. PPP) 프로젝트

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• Audrey FOUCHÉ
• France,Canada
• 2011
• 82min

French reporter, Ada Servier, arrives in Kobe, Japan, a city full of gray buildings. She has come to cover the mysterious phenomena known as ‘Death By Loneliness’, which has occurr...

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• Dmitry POVOLOTSKY,Mark DRUGOI
• Russia
• 2011
• 88min

This film tells a story of Boris Fishkin, a dancing student at Bolshoi Dance Academy in Moscow. He sincerely believes that his father is Mikhail Baryshnikov, the legendary Russian ...

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• Anne ÉMOND
• Canada
• 2011
• 91min

The film begins with a one-night stand between a man and a woman who meet in a club. Upon waking up in the middle of the night at the man’s place, the two begin to talk and gradual...

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• Simon DAVIDSON
• Canada
• 2011
• 94min

As the title, [The Odds], suggests, this film is about gambling. At night, high school students who make bets at the basketball court, gather together in one house. A small gamblin...

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• Maya KENIG
• Israel
• 2011
• 86min

After many years apart, a sensitive teen, Libby, is sent to live with her father, Shaul, in Israel. She soon discovers that her father is an irresponsible eccentric who is homeless...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• SONO Sion
• Japan
• 2011
• 129min

[Himizu] is based on a manga of same name by popular Japanese animator Minoru Furuya, first published in 2001. The son of a violent father and a runaway mother, Sumida, wishes for...

• 베니스영화제 신인배우상

A Window on Asian Cinema

• WEI Te-Sheng
• Taiwan
• 2011
• 276min

The production and release of [Seediq Bale] may prove to be a significant turning point for the Taiwanese film industry. With a budget of 600 million yuan,the film has the highest ...